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PA Ed Policy Roundup for Feb 27, 2020
‘They have slowly poisoned the public school system’ — Pittsburgh
school board calls for charter funding overhaul
“The state requires schools to foot the tuition for students who
live in their district, but decide to pursue an outside charter program,
causing a financial burden for districts across the state. In the 2018-19
school year, Lackawanna Trail spent $773,795 on cyber charter school tuition,
according to its business manager, Keith Glynn.’
Lackawanna Trail school board members advocate fairness
Wyoming County Examiner by BROOKE WILLIAMS /
PUBLISHED: FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Each school district that Harry Mathias Jr.
represents through the Pennsylvania School Boards Association differs, but
their administrations and elected leaders share at least one concern. They
believe cyber charter schools not only fail students seeking an alternative
method of education, but have also created an unfair funding formula for public
schools and taxpayers. Mathias, a retired superintendent from Central Columbia
School District, serves as an advocacy ambassador for the northeastern region
of the state. PSBA advocacy ambassadors act as liaisons between school
districts and legislators. The Lackawanna Trail School Board invited Mathias to
present a legislative advocacy workshop during a conference session on Feb. 12
in hopes of pushing elected officials to take action. The creation of brick and
mortar charter schools was authorized in Pennsylvania in 1997 under the Charter
School Law. In 2002, it was amended to also authorize cyber charter schools.
“The bills would require a statewide, data-driven cyber charter
school tuition rate and would stop the creation of new cyber charter schools
“until the existing schools improve performance.” The bills would also require
that charter schools use the Special Education Fair Funding Formula that public
schools use to determine the cost to serve students. While the state revised
its special education formula in 2014, that formula does not apply to charters
who instead receive a flat rate.”
Currently, publicly funded charter schools
operate independent from the city school district and receive a student’s
tuition money from the student’s home district.
WITF by Sarah Boden/WESA FEBRUARY 27,
2020 | 5:22 AM
(Pittsburgh) — Pittsburgh Public Schools
board members approved a resolution Wednesday that calls for the state’s
General Assembly to significantly reform the way it funds charter schools. Eight
board members approved the resolution; board member Sala Udin was absent. The PPS resolution supports
two soon-to-be introduced pieces of legislation and proposals from Gov. Tom
Wolf that call for reforms including setting a flat tuition rate for charter
schools, distributing special education funding through a funding formula and
stopping the creation of new cyber charter schools. Currently, publicly funded
charter schools operate independent from the city school district and receive a
student’s tuition money from the student’s home district. There is no set
tuition rate for charter schools. The funding is calculated based what a school
district pays to educate its own students, rather than the cost to educate a
child in the charter school, the resolution argues. There is a significant
range of spending across the state. PPS board members say they’re giving
charter schools more money than is needed to operate programs. “Because the
tuition rate calculations are based on the school district’s expenses, they
create wide discrepancies in the amount of tuition paid by different districts
for the same charter school education and result in drastic overpayments to
charter schools,” the resolution states. Board President Sylvia Wilson said
those discrepancies “pull critical resources from district students, resulting
in surplus funding to charter schools.”
“For the community violence prevention/reduction grants,
municipalities, counties, institutions of higher education and community-based
organizations were eligible to apply for programs designed to reduce community
violence, including increasing access to trauma-informed support services and
behavioral health care, providing health services and intervention strategies,
providing mentoring and other intervention models, and fostering communication
between school entities, their community and law enforcement.
A full listing of the approved applicants is attached below.”
School Safety and Security Committee Approves Over $60
Million in School Safety Grants
Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and
Delinquency (PCCD) Website February 26, 2020
Harrisburg, PA. — The School Safety and
Security Committee (Committee) established within the Pennsylvania
Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) by Act 44 of 2018 approved
today $53.7 million in school safety and security grants to 524 school entities
and $7.5 million in community violence prevention/reduction grants to 30
organizations located throughout the Commonwealth. For the school safety
grants, school districts, intermediate units, area vocational-technical
schools, charter schools, cyber charter schools, approved private schools,
chartered schools for the education of the deaf or the blind, and private
residential rehabilitative institutions were all eligible to apply for
funding. Projects were required to support the eligible
categories/activities listed under Section 1306-B of the Public School Code of
1949, which includes performing school safety assessments; purchasing
security-related technology and equipment; supporting school safety-related and
behavioral-health trainings; preparing all-hazards plans; hiring school
resource officers, school police officers, school counselors, social workers
and school psychologists; and providing for trauma-informed approaches to
education.
Amid Philly schools’ asbestos crisis, city to pay an
outside monitor to watchdog jobs
Inquirer by Kristen A. Graham and Wendy Ruderman, Updated: February 26,
202010:43 PM
With Mayor Jim Kenney’s blessing, the city
has hired an environmental firm to provide oversight on the Philadelphia School
District’s asbestos abatement efforts, which have often been marred by
problems. The move comes amid strained relations between the district and the
Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, which monitors environmental work inside
city schools. The city will pay Arc Environmental, a Baltimore-based firm, up to
$90,000 through the end of the school year to help the district and the PFT
agree on asbestos abatement protocols. The firm is also “another layer of
transparency, and to make sure there are best practices," said Rich Lazer,
deputy mayor for labor. The district has closed 10 schools since early fall
because of asbestos contamination. After longtime teacher Lea DiRusso was
diagnosed in late summer 2019 with mesothelioma, an asbestos-linked cancer, the
school system stepped up environmental inspections inside its more than 200
buildings.
Where’s damaged asbestos in Philly’s public schools? Look
it up in our new School Checkup tool.
Inquirer by Dylan Purcell, Updated: 53 minutes ago February
27, 2020
Community concern about asbestos in
classrooms has soared after the Philadelphia School District temporarily closed 10
schools since the fall over contamination from the carcinogenic building
material. As a public service, we are sharing the more than 900 places in
our School Checkup tool
where the district recently found damaged asbestos during its 2018-19
federally-mandated inspections. With this updated database, you can search by a
school’s name and learn the precise locations of newly identified damaged asbestos, as well as
previous reports of flaking lead paint, mold, and
other asthma triggers, and
drinking-water quality. You can also see the top 10 schools ranked by each
hazard. Click on the image: The Inquirer launched School Checkup in May
2018 as part of its award-winning investigative series “Toxic City: Sick Schools,” about
the ongoing struggle to protect Philadelphia’s children, many poor and
minority, from environmental harm in their classrooms. As new inspection
reports become available, we will update School Checkup and
let you know.
Philly School District poised to pay $850K to teacher
diagnosed with mesothelioma
Inquirer by Kristen A. Graham and Wendy Ruderman, Updated: 55 minutes ago February
27, 2020
Lea DiRusso, the career city teacher
diagnosed last year with a deadly asbestos-linked cancer, is in line to be paid
$850,000 by the Philadelphia School District. The school board on Thursday
night will consider a resolution allowing the district “to execute, deliver,
and perform a settlement agreement” with DiRusso and Amr Osman, her husband,
who had filed notice of intent to sue the school system. The settlement comes
“in exchange for a release of all claims that have been or could be asserted
against the district,” according to language included in board documents.
"The Office of General Counsel recommends this settlement as a fair and
appropriate resolution of the parties’ dispute.” After spending 28 years as a
special-education teacher at two South Philadelphia elementary schools —
Meredith and Nebinger, both with known asbestos problems — DiRusso began
feeling ill last spring. Doctors were confounded by her swelling, hard belly,
suggesting it was related to menopause or gastritis. The day she moved her
daughter into college, DiRusso got the diagnosis: mesothelioma, caused by
ingesting or inhaling asbestos fibers.
Speaking Mam in MAGA country: Immigration, education and
the teenage boy in the middle
WHYY By Laura
Benshoff February 26, 2020
Pressure is mounting on 15-year-old Fredy
Garcia Morales. In January, he was called into a meeting with a truancy officer
for his school in Chambersburg. His jaw dropped when he learned he’d missed 33
days of class. “It surprised me a lot,” he said later, in Spanish. Fredy hadn’t
realized things had gotten so bad. The teenager initially downplayed his
absences, but slowly admitted that he doesn’t like going to school in this
rural, mostly white section of south central Pennsylvania. In part, it’s
because he gets lost easily in his classes, which are taught in English. Fredy
speaks Spanish, but his first language is Mam, a Mayan language from his native
Guatemala. When he asks for help, it can backfire. “Sometimes, the teachers
explain things and I don’t understand. When I ask something, all the students
laugh and joke,” the sophomore said. This year, his grades dropped to all D’s
and F’s. In English class, he had a 19. To avoid scrutiny and
embarrassment, he skips school. Sometimes, instead of class, he goes to a
friend’s house to practice the electronic keyboard, which he performs in church
on Sunday. But there are bigger things on his mind than piano chords or his
attendance record. His dad was recently deported. His mom has severe diabetes
and can’t work. He has two little sisters, and bills for electricity and rent
are piling up. A couple of weeks after meeting with the truancy officer, he
said he feels responsible for taking care of his family. “I have to look
for work,” he said.
Study shows rural Pennsylvania school districts not
benefiting from nearby fracking
Pittsburgh City Paper By Ryan Deto February 26, 2020
Natural-gas industry boosters make several
arguments for why natural-gas drilling, aka fracking, is beneficial for
Pennsylvania. But their main argument, and one that is often repeated by
Republican and many Democratic politicians, is economic. Industry boosters
claim the economic growth and jobs, especially in rural areas, that come with
the growth in the fracking industry is too good to pass up, even if health and
environmental problems follow. But a new study from Penn State University is
shedding light on some of those claims, with a focus rural school districts
where fracking is occurring, and it's not positive. Titled “A ‘Resource Curse’ for
Education?: Deepening Educational Disparities in Pennsylvania’s Shale Gas
Boomtowns,” authors and Penn State education
department professors Matthew Gardner Kelly and Kai A. Schafft dig into the
school district revenues in areas that were home to drilling rigs in between
2007-2015. “Evidence from our analysis suggests that, on average, districts
experiencing unconventional drilling had lower per-pupil revenues, locally
raised per-pupil funding for schools, per-pupil income, and per-public property
wealth than very similar districts that did not experience unconventional
drilling," reads the study.
“Turzai announced his retirement even as he was shepherding the
bill through the House. And while he hasn’t announced his future plans, it’s
widely believed that the lame-duck speaker is headed for the gas industry,
where he’d work to marshal support to override an expected gubernatorial veto. The
billions of dollars funneled into the private sector by the bill are billions
in tax dollars that won’t be available for public schools or state-supported
colleges and universities. It’s money that will not be available for social
services, for vital infrastructure, or for environmental protections that are
so desperately needed in Pittsburgh and surrounding communities.”
How Turzai’s going-away present to the gas industry will
hurt Pa. for years to come | Opinion
By Larry J. Schweiger Capital-Star Op-Ed Contributor February
27, 2020
Retiring House Speaker Mike Turzai,
R-Allegheny, is about to grant the gas industry The most substantial
“going-away-present” in the history of the Commonwealth. The suburban
Pittsburgh Republican, who isn’t seeking re-election, engineered the passage of a bill (HB1100),
formally sponsored by Rep. Aaron D. Kaufer, R-Luzerne, that’s
a massive giveaway of untold tax dollars to undisclosed chemical,
fertilizer, plastics, and petrochemical industries. The House granted its initial approval to the
bill in September 2019 by a vote of
139-46. The Senate voted 39-11 on Feb. 4
to approve the measure, returning it to the House, which voted 157-35 on that same day, to give
its final approval to the bill. The administration is still waiting for the
bill to be sent over from the Senate, which is in recess for annual budget
hearings. It would take two-thirds majorities in both Republican-controlled
chambers to override the promised gubernatorial veto.
Teacher Makes Case For Raising Minimum Salary in Call
with Gov. Wolf
Governor Wolf’s Website February 26, 2020
Governor Tom Wolf called a Washington County
teacher to discuss his plan to raise the minimum teacher salary in Pennsylvania
from $18,500 to $45,000 per year. The teacher is one of more than 3,200 who
would benefit from the salary increase statewide. “Providing high-quality
education is one of my priorities, and that includes making sure we can attract
and retain talented teachers,” said Gov. Wolf. “Raising the teacher salary to
$45,000 would lift financial strain from our teachers, allowing them to direct
their attention more fully to educating young Pennsylvanians.” Pennsylvania
arbitrarily sets minimum compensation for Pennsylvania teachers and other
education professionals, including counselors and school nurses, at a
1980s-level of $18,500 per year, or $8.90. This salary assumes a 40-hour
workweek, even though most educators spend many hours out of the classroom
preparing lesson plans and reviewing student assignments. Gov. Wolf’s proposal
to raise the minimum teacher salary in Pennsylvania to $45,000 per year better
aligns the commonwealth with other states and today’s cost of living, helping
to attract the best teachers for Pennsylvania’s children.
Educational focus shifts to ‘soft skills,’
career-readiness
Beaver County Times By Dani
Fitzgerald @dfitzgeraldb Posted
at 6:01 AM February 27, 2020
Education is constantly changing shape.
Within the last five to ten years, educators say the focus is shifting from
college-readiness to career-readiness. Education is changing shape. But that’s
not new. For many years, educators focused on job preparation, assuming that
upon high school graduation most folks would enter the workforce. But that view
shifted perhaps 30 years ago, educators say, with a larger emphasis on
college-readiness. “You had a shift at some point where states felt everyone
needed to go to college,” Joe Mancini, Ellwood City Area School District
superintendent, said. “Not preparing for the workforce, but preparing for
college.” State-mandated tests arose, advanced placement classes became more
readily available in high schools, and academic course loads increased. Mancini
said within the last five to 10 years, he is noticing a shift back, with a
stronger focus on what he calls “soft skills,” or employability skills. Ellwood
City recently started developing a “portrait of a graduate,” which illustrates
different components necessary for students who are leaving high school,
whether they are pursuing college or the workforce.
Digital Notebook by Evan Brandt Wednesday,
February 26, 2020
It's been a year since the Pottsgrove School
Board decided to return the teaching of
French to the school district. Tuesday
night, some of the district's language teachers offered a report on how things
are going. Seventh graders take a class split into trimesters, in which the
students sample German, Spanish and French, said Spanish teacher Colleen Krum. The
students are learning how the three European languages are related to each
other, and to English, and that is also helping to improve their vocabulary in
all four languages, she said. A student survey among the seventh graders
revealed a desire for more languages -- and snacks. Natacha Dubuisson, who
teaches French, said her surveys showed that 80 percent of the seventh graders
hope to continue with the language in high school. Further, she said 62 percent
of her high school students have also indicated a desire to continue with the
language.
Jordan wins reelection as PFT president
The long-tenured Collective Bargaining team
staved off the second challenge from the Caucus of Working Educators.
The notebook by Dale
Mezzacappa February 26 — 5:37 pm, 2020
Jerry Jordan has won re-election as president
of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, turning back a strong challenge
from an insurgent group that sought to move the union into more grassroots
activism. PFT issued a statement saying that with roughly 60% of the vote
counted, Jordan was the clear winner, without giving a vote count. The
challengers, the Caucus of Working Educators (WE), said Jordan and his team
received 4,453 votes while its slate received 2,761 votes, with nearly 471
split ballots yet to be counted. In his statement, Jordan thanked the members
and said that his Collective Bargaining, or CB, team – which has run the union
for since 1983 – will continue to work for more investment in schools. He
described the campaign as “spirited,” adding: “Together with the members
of the PFT, the CB Team’s leadership has worked relentlessly to shift the
anti-public education narrative that has recently swept the nation and
permeated all levels of government.” The statement added that educators in
Philadelphia have “laid the groundwork for the national rebuttal against
austerity.” Kathleen Melville, who led the WE slate, congratulated Jordan and
said in a statement that “we look forward to continuing to push for a more
engaged and empowered PFT membership together.” Had the WE caucus won, Melville
would have been the first woman to lead the union – whose membership is
predominantly female – since Celia Pincus in the 1950s, long before it won
collective bargaining rights.
Census officials warn of bogus GOP forms
Delco Times By Kathleen E. Carey
kcarey@21st-centurymedia.com @dtbusiness on Twitter February
27, 2020
Delaware County officials reported a survey
mimicking the census being distributed to county addresses by the Republican
National Committee that could inadvertently impact the official count. Once
every 10 years, the U.S. Census counts the population to determine the
allocation of federal funds for various services such as health care, education
and emergency services. Every person counted equates for more than $2,000 of
funding. On Wednesday, the Delaware County Complete Count Committee issued a
notice that a mailer called the "2020 Congressional District Census"
had been sent to some county residents with a variety of political questions,
mostly related to President Donald Trump, and a solicitation to donate to the
Republican National Committee in amounts of $25, $50, $100, up to $1,000. It
also had a delineation to enclose "$15 to help pay for the cost of
processing my Census Document." And although it says that and anyone can
call a survey a census, those affiliated with the official Census are concerned
it could be perplexing. "The concern is that it is confusing,"
Michaek Ranck, chair of the Delaware County Complete Count Committee, said.
"It is clearly not the Census because it doesn't ask the questions that
the Census will ask ... It was clear that it was not really the Census Bureau
Census."
What Would a Coronavirus Outbreak in the U.S. Mean for
Schools?
Districts have infectious disease protocols.
But few have detailed plans to teach online if schools were closed for long
periods.
New York Times By Dana Goldstein and Julie
Bosman Feb. 27, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET
Schools in the United States prepare for all
manner of disasters and threats, whether hurricanes, mass shooters, tornadoes,
influenza or head lice. But this week, a stark new order came from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention: Get ready for the coronavirus. Around the nation, school officials and
parents were flummoxed by the sudden warning that if a coronavirus epidemic hit
the United States, school buildings could be shut down for long periods of
time, leaving children sequestered at home and schools scrambling to provide remote
instruction. In warning that the coronavirus will almost certainly spread in
the United States, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the National Center for
Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said she had contacted her own local
school superintendent this week and asked if the district was prepared. She
advised parents to do the same. And she suggested that a temporary system of
“internet-based teleschooling” could replace traditional schools. It was not
clear how such a system would work.
Are Schools Ready for Coronavirus? Trump Says They Should
Be
Education Week By Denisa R. Superville February
26, 2020
Even as President Donald Trump sought to
reassure the American public that the risk for the spread of coronavirus in the
United States remains low, school districts are likely to be on the front lines
in efforts to limit its impact. Trump, who announced Wednesday night that Vice
President Mike Pence will now oversee the federal government’s efforts to
respond to coronavirus, said he believes that American schools should be
prepared to respond. “I think schools should be preparing,” Trump said in a
response to a reporter’s question in the Wednesday night news conference. “Get
ready just in case.” Warnings earlier this week from federal health officials
that the spread of coronavirus was “inevitable” in the U.S. has put many school
officials on urgent notice. Within hours of the warnings from officials with
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Daniel Domenech, the president
of the AASA, the School Superintendents Association, was fielding calls and
emails from superintendents seeking more information on what they should do.
Blogger note: support Governor Wolf’s proposed charter reforms:
Reprise: PA Ed Policy Roundup for Feb 10, 2020
1. Adopt resolution for charter funding
reform
2. Ask your legislators to cosponsor HB2261
or SB1024
3. Register for Advocacy Day on March 23rd
Adopt: the 2020 PSBA resolution for charter school funding
reform
PSBA Website POSTED ON FEBRUARY 3,
2020 IN PSBA
NEWS
In this legislative session, PSBA has been
leading the charge with the Senate, House of Representatives and the Governor’s
Administration to push for positive charter reform. We’re now asking you to
join the campaign: Adopt the resolution: We’re asking all school
boards to adopt the 2020 resolution for charter school funding reform at your
next board meeting and submit it to your legislators and to PSBA.
Cosponsor: A 120-page
charter reform proposal is being introduced as House Bill
2261 by Rep. Joseph Ciresi (D-Montgomery), and Senate Bill 1024,
introduced by Senators Lindsey Williams (D-Allegheny) and James Brewster
(D-Allegheny). Ask your legislator to sign on as a cosponsor to House Bill
2261 or Senate Bill 1024.
Register: Five compelling reasons for .@PSBA .@PASA .@PAIU school leaders to come to the Capitol
for Advocacy Day on March 23rd:
Charter Reform
Cyber Charter Reform
Basic Ed Funding
Special Ed Funding
PLANCON
For more
information: https://www.psba.org/event/advocacy-day-2020/
Hear relevant content from statewide experts, district practitioners and
PSBA government affairs staff at PSBA’s annual membership gathering. PSBA
Sectional Advisors and Advocacy Ambassadors are on-site to connect with
district leaders in their region and share important information for you to
take back to your district.
Locations and dates
- Wednesday,
March 18, 2020 — Section 7, PSBA
Headquarters, 400 Bent Creek Blvd, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050
- Tuesday,
March 24, 2020 — Section 1, General McLane
High School, 11761 Edinboro Rd, Edinboro, PA 16412
- Tuesday,
March 24, 2020 — Section 4, Abington
Heights School District, 200 East Grove Street, Clark Summit, PA 18411
- Wednesday,
March 25, 2020 — Section 3, Columbia-Montour
AVTS, 5050 Sweppenheiser Dr., Bloomsburg, PA 17815
- Wednesday,
March 25, 2020 — Section 6, Bedford County
Technical Center, 195 Pennknoll Road, Everett, PA 15537
- Thursday,
March 26, 2020 — Section 2, State College
Area High School, 650 Westerly Pkwy, State College, PA 16801
- Monday,
March 30, 2020 — Section 5, Forbes Road
Career & Technology Center, 607 Beatty Road, Monroeville, PA 15146
- Monday, March 30, 2020 — Section 8, East Penn School District, 800 Pine St, Emmaus,
PA 18049
- Tuesday, April 7, 2020 — Section 5, Washington School District, 311 Allison
Avenue, Washington, PA 15301
- Tuesday, April 7, 2020 — Section 8, School District of Haverford Twp, 50 East Eagle
Road, Havertown, PA 19083
Sectional Meetings are 6:00 p.m. -8:00 p.m. (across all locations). Light
refreshments will be offered.
Cost: Complimentary for
PSBA member entities.
Registration: Registration is
now open. To register, please sign into myPSBA and look for
Store/Registration on the left.
Allegheny County Legislative Forum on Education March 12
by Allegheny Intermediate Unit Thu, March
12, 2020 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM EDT
Join us on March 12 at 7:00 pm for the
Allegheny Intermediate Unit's annual Allegheny County Legislative Forum. The
event will feature a discussion with state lawmakers on a variety of issues
impacting public schools. We hope you will join us and be part of the
conversation about education in Allegheny County.
All school
leaders are invited to attend Advocacy Day at the state Capitol in
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. Click here for more information or register
at http://www.mypsba.org/
School
directors can register online now by logging in to myPSBA. If you need assistance
logging in and registering contact Alysha Newingham, Member Data System
Administrator at alysha.newingham@psba.org
Register now for
Network for Public Education Action National Conference in Philadelphia March
28-29, 2020
Registration, hotel
information, keynote speakers and panels:
NSBA annual conference -- April 4-6, 2020 Chicago
Registration for the 2020 NSBA Annual
Conference is now open. The event will be held April 4-6 in Chicago
PSBA Board Presidents Panel April 27, 28 and 29; Multiple
Locations
Offered at 10 locations across the state,
this annual event supports current and aspiring school board leaders through
roundtable conversations with colleagues as well as a facilitated panel of
experienced regional and statewide board presidents and superintendents. Board
Presidents Panel is designed to equip new and veteran board presidents and vice
presidents as well as superintendents and other school directors who may pursue
a leadership position in the future.
PARSS Annual Conference April 29 – May 1, 2020 in State
College
The 2020 PARSS Conference is April 29 through
May 1, 2020, at Wyndham Garden Hotel at Mountain View Country Club in State
College. Please register as a member or a vendor by accessing the links below.
Register today for the 2020 PASA/PA Principals
Association PA Educational Leadership Summit, August 2-4, at the Lancaster
Marriott at Penn Square
(hosted by the PA Principals Association and
the PA Association of School Administrators). Participants can earn up to 80
PIL hours (40 hours for the Summit and - for an additional cost of $50 -
40 hours for EdCamp) for
attending the conference and completing program requirements. Register
early to reserve your seat! The deadline to take advantage of the Early Bird
Discount is April 24, 2020.
Click here to
register today!
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