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Editorial: Finally,
Pa. gets serious about property taxes
Delco Times
Editorial December 12, 2019
When it comes to
issues that stir passions among Pennsylvanians, we can’t think of anything that
tops the question of what to do about school property taxes. For years
activists and lawmakers have been pushing a proposal that would eliminate the
unpopular levy and instead fund local education through an increase in personal
income and sales taxes. For years the legislation has been stymied in
Harrisburg. Now Sen. David G. Argall, a Schuylkill County Republican and a
longtime proponent of the tax elimination proposal, is trying a different
approach. He is the leader of the bipartisan School Property Tax Work Group,
which aims to identify a tax-relief proposal with sufficient support to become
law. The group recently outlined five proposals for discussion. One would
eliminate school property taxes. The others would reduce but not eliminate the
school property tax burden in Pennsylvania.
Plan 1 would reduce
school property taxes by $8.62 billion by raising the personal income tax from
3.07% to 4.07%; increase the sales tax to 7% from 6% to generate additional
cash for homestead exclusions; require school districts to levy a minimum local
earned income of 1%; expand the Property Tax and Rent Rebate Program; and
expand the senior safety net through the Deferred Property Tax Program.
Plan 2 would reduce
school property taxes by $6.44 billion by raising the personal income tax from
3.07% to 4.62%.
Plan 3 would cap
the rebate for homestead properties at $2,340 and raise the personal income tax
from 3.07% to 4.32%. It is expected more than 2 million homeowners would see
their property taxes eliminated.
Plan 4 would cap
the rebate for homestead properties at $5,000 and raising the personal income
tax from 3.07% to 4.72%. It is expected that more than 3.1 million homeowners
would see their property taxes eliminated.
Plan 5 would
eliminate school property taxes by increasing the personal income tax from
3.07% to 4.82% and increasing the sales tax to 7% from 6%.
Argall deserves
great credit for being willing to lead this effort, knowing full well that even
considering ideas other than elimination will anger many of his constituents in
a part of the state where opposition to school property taxes is particularly
fierce.
Cost Analysis: Cyber
Charter Schools and Public School District Cyber Learning Programs
Pennsylvania
Association of School Administrators White Paper
By Dr. Brett
Gilliland Director of Educational Support Service, I.U. 11 and Dr. Mark DiRocco
Executive Director, Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators June 19,
2018
The Pennsylvania
Charter School Law is now more than twenty years old and has grown increasingly
obsolete in terms of its application to the current practices in charter school
delivery services, especially cyber charter schools. The General Assembly has
considered changes to the current law in recent years with draft legislation
that would comprehensively reform charter school law. The Pennsylvania
Association of School Administrators (PASA) authored a white paper in June 2017
to address the systemic flaws within the current law. The following
recommendations were offered to improve the Pennsylvania Charter School Law:
How Citizens United Reshaped Elections
The 2010
Supreme Court decision further tilted political influence toward wealthy donors
and corporations.
Brennan Center for
Justice by Tim Lau PUBLISHED: December 12, 2019
January 21, 2020
will mark a decade since the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United
v. Federal Election Commission, a controversial decision that reversed
century-old campaign finance restrictions and enabled corporations and other
outside groups to spend unlimited funds on elections. While wealthy donors,
corporations, and special interest groups have long had an outsized influence
in U.S. elections, that sway has dramatically expanded since the Citizens
United decision, with negative repercussions for American democracy
and the fight against political corruption. What was Citizens United about?
A conservative nonprofit group called Citizens United challenged campaign
finance rules after the Federal Election Commission (FEC) stopped it from
promoting and airing a film criticizing presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
too close to the presidential primaries. A 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court
sided with Citizens United, ruling that corporations and other outside groups
can spend unlimited money on elections.
Letter: CHARTER SCHOOLS SHOULD BE ACCOUNTABLE
Centre Daily Times
by Shannon Telenko, State College December 13, 2019
On Nov. 22 I
attended a public roundtable on charter school reform at Penn State where
Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Pedro A. Rivera was a participant. As a
member of the Parent Advisory Committee for Education Voters of PA, I was
specifically interested in hearing about charter school funding. At the
roundtable, there was a near-unanimous call for charter school reform,
particularly related to how charter schools are funded and the lack
accountability for student performance. The funding model for charter schools
in Pennsylvania is broken. School districts pay brick-and-mortar and cyber
charter schools for students with disabilities based on the average amount that
a district spends educating those students, not on the actual cost of providing
the charter school students with the services they need. Some area school
districts spend nearly $30,000 in tuition for each charter/cyber charter
student with a disability, even if that student requires, for example, just 30
minutes per week of speech therapy. The cost of services can total thousands of
dollars less than the district is paying. In 2014-2015, charter schools
reported receiving $100 million more in special education tuition payments than
they spent on educating students. They are then able to spend excess special
funding on anything, including lavish CEO salaries, shareholder profits and
more. According to our constitution, Pennsylvania “shall provide for the
maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of public
education...” As voters we can hold charter schools more accountable for their
spending and performance.
Philadelphia Historical Commission sides with Boys’ Latin
school over fate of church building
Inquirer by Maddie Hanna, Updated: December 13, 2019
The Philadelphia
Historical Commission on Friday declined a request to designate as historic a
West Philadelphia church building owned by Boys’ Latin Charter School, after
the school said doing so could derail its plans to convert the building into a
needed gym for students. The commission voted that the church at 63rd and
Callowhill Streets — which once was Our Lady of the Holy Rosary parish — met
the standards for preservation. But it chose not to designate it based on the
school’s contention that
doing so would more than double its $3.5 million price tag for constructing the
gym. Boys’ Latin CEO Noah Tennant also said the efforts to preserve the
building in such a way didn’t reflect the broader neighborhood and the
low-income community the school seeks to serve. It “is really protecting, I believe,
white history, white culture ... at the expense of 375 students who will not
otherwise have a gymnasium," he said. The charter school’s foundation
bought the church from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in 2015 to house its
middle school campus. It currently occupies a former rectory, convent and
school on the property. During recess, students fill the parking lot.
Sala Udin: Vote 'no' on Pittsburgh Public Schools budget
and tax increase
The
administration should explain the dwindling student enrollment and academic
failure
Post Gazette
Opinion by SALA UDIN DEC 16, 2019 4:45 AM
Sala Udin
represents District 3 on the Pittsburgh Public Schools board of directors.
“If you want to
plan for a year, plant rice. If you want to plan for 10 years, plant trees. If
you want to plan for 100 years, educate the children.”
— Confucius
Our purpose on the
board of Pittsburgh Public Schools is to educate the children. My belief is
that we are failing badly in educating our students — all students. Even more
worrisome, the educational achievement gap between white and black children in
Pittsburgh Public Schools is persistent and has not been reversed. The racial
achievement gap over the last three years shows a continuous, unacceptable
failure in the basic subjects of reading, math and science. Black children, in
mostly black schools and in integrated schools, continue to lag far behind
white children in these fundamental academic subjects. Millions of dollars have
been spent over this time period on “reform” programs that have not altered the
achievement deficits. Slogans and aspirational goals do not create real,
lasting change. Substituting new, unproven programs for old, failed programs
also does not create real change. Instead of proven reforms, the administration
has offered yet another new slogan — “Imagine PPS” — apparently to be coupled
with the previous ineffective slogan, “Expect Great Things.”
Editorial: New Kensington-Arnold School District Tax
increase is harsh lesson
TRIBUNE-REVIEW | Sunday,
December 15, 2019 12:01 p.m.
The New Kensington-Arnold School District financial
situation is an argument for a change in how government — and taxpayers —
should think about taxes. It would be great to fund our schools and other vital
public services without requiring everyone to kick money into a collective pot.
But failing another revenue stream, or Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates adding a few
towns to their Christmas list, taxes are what we have. New Kensington-Arnold
property owners are going to get an ugly surprise next fiscal year as the
district is looking down the barrel of a staggering
tax increase. The
struggle isn’t shocking. The economy in the area is not robust and the known
challenges for the district just swept in five new board members. But those
economic realities demonstrate hard truths. According to Business Manager Jeff
McVey, property taxes could spike 7 mills in a proposed budget. The proposed
millage increase would add $140 to a homeowner’s tax bill per $20,000 of
assessed value. And state law would be bent to its limits to allow such a steep
hike. Even with a tax increase of this degree, the fund balance will still be
drained dry and the 2020-21 fiscal year will end in a pool of red ink. Ten
years ago, the district sat on a fund balance of $7.6 million. So how did this
happen? Ten years of spending more than what came in is part of it. The other
is not changing what was coming in.
“Changes have also bubbled across the
Philadelphia region. In Radnor, high school now starts at 8:30, pushed back from 7:35 last year. Tredyffrin/Easttown also
delayed start times this year, pushing high school to 7:50 and middle school to
8:27. Unionville-Chadds Ford was the first area district to switch, pushing
high school to 8 a.m. in fall 2017. Lower Merion’s plan would shift all upper
grades in line with the medical recommendations, pushing the high school start
to 8:25 and middle school to 9:05. But such changes involve a complex web of
factors that go into realigning school schedules. Among the biggest challenges
is transportation, one exacerbated in Pennsylvania.”
Lower Merion wants elementary school students to start
earlier, and high schoolers to arrive later. Some parents aren’t happy
Inquirer by Maddie Hanna, Updated: December 13, 2019
As a child
psychologist, Lisa Schwartz supports the science-backed trend of starting the
school day later for middle and high school students. She sees it as a
“life-and-death" issue. But as a parent of first and fourth graders,
Schwartz understands concerns about the steps the Lower Merion School District
would take to accommodate the switch. It wants to bump up the start of the
elementary school day by 75 minutes, from 9 a.m. to 7:45. In addition to having
to wake children earlier, Schwartz thinks parents may have an even harder time
finding child care if the school day ends at 2:35 p.m., as Lower Merion is
proposing. She is among a chorus of elementary parents raising questions about
the Main Line district’s plan to reorder its school start times. Lower Merion
has been discussing the potential changes for years, and within weeks
administrators are expected to present an update to the school board that will
lay the groundwork for a vote early next year. Yet the latest plan is prompting
some parents to demand the district come up with another option — including
during listening sessions that took place last week. The controversy follows
moves by districts around the country to better align student schedules to what
research shows is healthiest for young people.
‘We don’t believe in punishment’: Student-led youth court
could come to Harrisburg school
WHYY By Sean Sauro,
PennLive December 14, 2019
Audrey Dudley
presented a scenario: A high school student angry with his teacher lashes out
swearing and yelling before standing from his desk, walking to a classroom door
and slamming it on his way out into the hallway — slamming it so hard that a
glass window in the door shatters. In a traditional school setting, it’s a
scene that would end with discipline, possibly detention or out-of-school
suspension. But in Norristown, where Dudley teaches social studies, there is
another option. It’s an option that soon could be available at a Harrisburg
high school, too. For six years, Dudley has led Norristown Area High School’s
youth court program, which allows students who break certain rules to admit
guilt and appear before a jury of their peers. That jury then assigns
corrective action plans that take the place of traditional punishments. In the
case of the door-slamming student, that could mean writing letters of apology,
seeking out anger management counseling and helping school maintenance staff
repair the broken glass, Dudley said. If completed, traditional punishments
would be ignored and the offense wouldn’t be added to the student’s permanent
record, she said. A school administrator is in charge to ensure that the plan
is followed. If it’s not, traditional punishments could come back into play,
she said.
APPS: Philly SD Student Achievement and Support Committee
Report, December 5, 2019
Alliance for
Philadelphia Public Schools by Lynda Rubin December 13, 2019 appsphilly.net
In response to
repeated public requests, the Board Committees have begun posting the Committee
agendas, including descriptions of Action Items to be considered, one week
before the meeting. However, 7 new items were added to the agenda just hours
before this meeting, 6 of which are charter renewals (including 5 Mastery
charters). Yet the CSO had sufficient time to prepare an extensive power-point
presentation. We also question how parents and students from all 5 Mastery
schools were printed on the official speakers list. How did charter
supporters sign up 24 hours ahead of time to speak on Action Items that were
not publicly posted until 5 hours before the meeting? Additionally,
the power-point slides prepared for the District Reports by staff were not
posted until the day after the meeting. Board members continue to say that
Committee meetings are where deliberation and dialogue take place, and have
used that justification for not responding to questions at Action
Meetings. The Board continues to withhold information about charter
matters until after the Board votes. How can people ask informed
questions with limited information?
Who turns down federal money? Legislators in New Hampshire
halt a $46 million charter school grant from DeVos’s Education Department.
Washington Post Answer
Sheet By Valerie Strauss Dec. 13, 2019 at 7:11 p.m. EST
Turning down
millions of dollars in federal money is not a usual occurrence, but that is
what Democratic members on a key legislative committee in New Hampshire just
did. They voted to block the first installment of a $46 million grant that the
Education Department recently gave the state to double the number of charter
schools over the next five years. Members of the Joint Legislative Fiscal
Committee voted 7 to 3 on Friday to table the grant from the federal Charter
School Program (CSP), with the majority Democrats saying they were concerned
about the effect that the expansion of charter schools could have on
traditional public schools at a time of decreasing enrollment. Democrats won
control of the state legislature last year, though the governor, Chris Sununu,
and the state education commissioner, Frank Edelblut, are both
Republican. Edelblut
is a
businessman and one-term state representative who home-schooled his seven
children. Both men supported the grant. Charter schools are financed by the
public but privately operated, sometimes by for-profit companies. Charters
enroll about 6 percent of America’s schoolchildren; in New Hampshire, there are
29 charter schools that enroll about 3,800 of about 176,000 students. Education
Secretary Betsy DeVos is a big backer of charter schools, and she has said her
chief priority is to expand them and other alternatives to traditional public
schools, which she once called “a dead end.”
In Pittsburgh, 2020
Dems put the focus on public education
Special to the
Capital-Star By Kim
Lyons December 14, 2019
PITTSBURGH — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants to put $800 billion into Title I
schools. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders says teachers need to be paid at least
$60,000 a year. And South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg wants to
create an “Education Access Corps” that would staff Title I schools –those with
the highest concentrations of students in poverty — and allow teachers’ student
loans to be forgiven. Seven of the Democrats running for president told
an audience of educators and students their plans for public education reform
at The Public Education Forum 2020. The day-long forum, held at the David L.
Lawrence Convention Center in downtown Pittsburgh, was the first major event of
the primary season focused exclusively on public education. The forum was
organized by education and community groups including the Schott Foundation for
Public Education, an educational advocacy organization that provides grants and
other resources toward increasing the quality of public education, the
American Federation of Teachers and the NAACP. MSNBC was the event’s media sponsor.
Democratic
presidential candidates largely agree on education issues in Pittsburgh forum
Candidates’
answers differed, however, when it came to how they would make changes
WITF by Sarah
Schneider/WESA DECEMBER 15, 2019 | 8:36 AM
(Pittsburgh) — The seven Democratic
presidential candidates who spoke to union members and activists in Downtown
Pittsburgh Saturday espoused similar goals: paying teachers more, ensuring more
equitable resources for poorer schools, and unraveling an earlier generation of
changes that include charter schools and standardized testing. Massachusetts
Senator Elizabeth Warren — among the favorites with the crowd of roughly 1,000
educators, activists and students — captured the flavor of much of the day’s
commentary in a discussion of school funding. “So long as we keep basing
funding mostly on whether or not you live in a neighborhood where they can
afford to pay high property taxes or low property taxes, we’re going to keep
moving the opportunities for our children further and further apart,” she said.
Candidates’ answers differed, however, when it came to how they would make
changes, and on who had the most credibility to deliver them.
U.S. must fix education inequality, spend big to do it,
say Democratic presidential candidates at Pa. forum
Penn Live By David
Wenner | dwenner@pennlive.com Updated Dec 14, 10:09 PM;Posted Dec 14, 4:39 PM
PITTSBURGH — In
America, the value of someone’s home dictates the quality of the schools their
children attend, and whether their children have a fair chance at success. That
was a prevailing criticism among seven Democratic presidential candidates who
attended an all-day public education forum in Pittsburgh on Saturday, and
portrayed the flaw as being the root of social injustice in the United States. Americans
who can afford expensive homes send their kids to better-funded public schools
with more to spend on teachers, educational programs and activities, they said.
The opposite is true for residents of poor areas, both urban and rural. Moreover,
well-off Americans send their kids to pre-school enrichment and educational
programs from the earliest age, giving them a permanent advantage over children
from less expensive zip codes. “Poor kids are being punished for being poor,”
said former Pete Buttigieg, a former mayor of South Bend, Ind.
Buttigieg said such
inequality “threatens to pull down the whole country,” and the United States
won’t reach its full potential without overcoming it. Buttigieg and the other
Democratic frontrunners — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Vice President Joe Biden and
Sen. Bernie Sanders — attended the forum in front of an audience of more than
1,000.
Democratic presidential candidates discuss education
issues at Pittsburgh forum
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE Got a
news tip? 412-263-1601 localnews@post-gazette.com DEC 14, 2019 9:20 PM
For a moment on
Saturday in Downtown Pittsburgh, it seemed as if the race for the Democratic
presidential nomination paused for a moment, replaced by a competition for who
could say the nicest thing about teachers. But alas, the two might go
hand-in-hand. Participating in the first-ever nationally televised presidential
candidate forum focused on public education, seven of the 2020 race’s
Democratic contenders grappled with issues important to teachers unions and
grassroots organizations — several of which convened the forum and have yet to
endorse a candidate in the primary. “If we honored our teachers a little more
like soldiers, as well as paid them a little more like doctors, we wouldn’t
have this issue of shortages,” South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg said 40
minutes in.
Public school funding
a hot topic for Democratic candidates at Pittsburgh forum
Trib Live by JAMIE MARTINES | Saturday, December 14, 2019 6:32 p.m.
Pittsburgh served
as the backdrop Saturday as seven Democratic presidential candidates met at the
David L. Lawrence Convention Center to discuss their education policy
platforms. Front-runners Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen.
Elizabeth Warren were joined by Sen. Michael Bennet, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen.
Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer for the daylong, invitation-only event organized
by national and local teachers’ union and public school supporters. Sen. Cory
Booker was scheduled to attend but dropped out because of the flu, according to
a statement from his campaign. Candidates each gave one-on-one interviews with
Ali Velshi, host of “MSNBC Live,” and Rehema Ellis, “NBC News” education
correspondent. They also fielded questions from the audience, which included
more than 1,000 teachers, students, parents and community members from
Pittsburgh and across the country.
Seven Democrat Presidential Hopefuls Seek Education
Stakeholder Approval; Some More Successful Than Others
Forbes by Peter Greene Senior Contributor Dec 14, 2019, 10:17pm
Saturday an
assortment of Democratic Presidential hopefuls went before an audience of
education stakeholders to make their education case. The format was brief
intro, grilling by moderators, and questions from selected audience members;
those questioners included teachers, parents, students, and activists. Here’s
how the day went for some of the participants.
Training: Enhancing
School Safety Jan. 9th, 8 am – 1 pm Council Rock High School South
The training is
provided by the United States Secret Service and the Office PA Rep Wendi
Thomas, in partnership with the Bucks County Intermediate Unit, Bucks County DA
Matt Weintraub and PSEA.
Date: Thursday,
January 9, 2020, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Council Rock High
School South, 2002 Rock Way, Holland PA 18954
This is the
region’s first presentation of the National Threat Assessment Center's (NTAC)
2020 research on actionable plans to prevent violence in schools. The training
is provided by the United States Secret Service (USSS)
and is based on updated operational research conducted by the USSS and the
NTAC. The training will offer best practices on preventing incidents of
targeted school violence. This workshop will focus solely on how to proactively
identify, assess, and manage individuals exhibiting concerning behavior based
on USSS methodologies.
At the conclusion
of the training, attendees will be able to:
· Understand operational research on preventing incidents of targeted
school violence;
· Be able to proactively identify, using USSS methodologies, concerning
behaviors prior to an incident;
· Be able to assess concerning behaviors using best practice standards and
use identified methods to better manage individuals who exhibit concerning
behaviors with the goal of preventing school violence.
Charter Schools;
Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
PENNSYLVANIA
BULLETIN PROPOSED RULEMAKING DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION [ 22 PA. CODE CH. 711 ]
The award winning documentary Backpack Full of
Cash that explores the siphoning of funds from traditional public
schools by charters and vouchers will be shown in three locations in the
Philadelphia suburbs in the upcoming weeks.
The film is
narrated by Matt Damon, and some of the footage was shot in Philadelphia.
Members of the
public who are interested in becoming better informed about some of the
challenges to public education posed by privatization are invited to attend.
At all locations, the film will start
promptly at 7 pm, so it is suggested that members of the
audience arrive 10-15 minutes prior to the start of the
screening.
Backpack Full of
Cash hosted by State
Representatives Mary Jo Daley, Tim Briggs, and Matt Bradford
Monday,
January 6, 2020
Ludington
Library 5 S. Bryn Mawr Avenue Bryn Mawr,
PA 19010
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Advocacy Day at the
Capitol-- March 23, 2020
PSBA Advocacy Day
2020 MAR 23, 2020 • 8:00 AM - 2:30 PM
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All school leaders
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Harrisburg. The Pennsylvania School Boards Association (PSBA), Pennsylvania
Association of Intermediate Units (PAIU) and the Pennsylvania Association of
School Administrators (PASA) are partnering together to strengthen our advocacy
impact. The day will center around meetings with legislators to discuss
critical issues affecting public education.
Registration: As a
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appointments will be coordinated with the completion of your registration. The
day will begin with a continental breakfast and issue briefing prior to the
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PSBA New and Advanced
School Director Training in Dec & Jan
Do you want
high-impact, engaging training that newly elected and reseated school directors
can attend to be certified in new and advanced required training? PSBA has been
supporting new school directors for more than 50 years by enlisting statewide
experts in school law, finance and governance to deliver a one-day foundational
training. This year, we are adding a parallel track of sessions for those who
need advanced school director training to meet their compliance requirements.
These sessions will be delivered by the same experts but with advanced content.
Look for a compact evening training or a longer Saturday session at a location
near you. All sites will include one hour of trauma-informed training required
by Act 18 of 2019. Weekend sites will include an extra hour for a legislative
update from PSBA’s government affairs team.
New School
Director Training
Week Nights:
Registration opens 3:00 p.m., program starts 3:30 p.m. -9:00 p.m., dinner with
break included
Saturdays: Registration opens at 8:00 a.m., program starts at 9:00 a.m. -3:30 p.m., lunch with break included
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School Director Training
Week Nights:
Registration with dinner provided opens at 4:30 p.m., program starts 5:30 p.m.
-9:00 p.m.
Saturdays: Registration opens at 10:00 a.m., program starts at 11:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m., lunch with break included
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and dates
- Saturday, December 14 — State College
Area High School, 650 Westerly Pkwy, State College, PA 16801
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Headquarters, 400 Bent Creek Blvd, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050
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