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PA Ed Policy Roundup for Feb 28, 2020
A Free Educational Event Hosted at Capitol
Building in Harrisburg, March 16, 2020
CONTACT Holly Lubart EMAIL HollyL@PANewsMedia.org PHONE 717-703-3032
A Free Sunshine Week Educational Event Hosted
at Capitol Building in Harrisburg, Pa.
Guest Speaker: Sarah Hofius Hall, Education
Reporter, The Times-Tribune
More than 37,000 Pennsylvania students learn
at home through cyber charter schools. As those taxpayer-funded schools face
growing criticism from public school districts and potential policy changes
from the state government, advocates stress the need for school choice. Sarah
Hofius Hall, education reporter for The Times-Tribune in Scranton and a
frequent requester of public documents, will discuss how newspapers can examine
cyber charter school finances and achievement while promoting transparency.
Guest Speaker: Representative Curt
Sonney, Chairman, House Education Committee
Representative Sonney has introduced House
Bill 1897, which would require all school districts in the Commonwealth to
offer full-time cyber education programs that will be accountable to local
communities. It requires school districts who contract with a third-party
vendor, to post all information related to the contract on the district’s
publicly available website. In addition, a public hearing must be held on a
school district’s planned cyber education offerings.
Sonney will discuss how the legislature will
continue to address this issue.
Guest Speaker from the Wolf Administration
Governor Tom Wolf recently unveiled a
proposed state education budget that calls for charter school reform and
improvements to aging school buildings. His plan would establish a statewide
tuition rate of $9,500 for cyber charter school students. Despite costing $1.8
billion a year, charter schools have little public oversight and no publicly
elected school board. For-profit companies that manage many charter schools are
not required to have independent financial audits.
A representative from the Wolf Administration
will address their plan.
To register for this event, please complete
the form below.
From Senator Mensch. Via Senate GOP Website
Members of the Senate Appropriations
Committee questioned Education Secretary Pedro Rivera about a number of issue
related to school funding and education, including:
- How
the governor can justify cutting funding for school safety grants from
$60 million to $15 million, given their vital importance in protecting
students.
- The
increased capital costs associated with providing full-day
kindergarten.
- Ongoing
efforts to expand a pilot dyslexia program statewide and fund more career
technical schools in Pennsylvania.
- The
administration’s unfunded all-day kindergarten mandate and its effect on
school property taxes.
- A
new program that would require CPR education in schools.
- The
statewide rollout of Act 64 providing school districts with flexible
instruction days.
- Funding
allocations for remediating “toxic schools” that pose health risks to
students.
- Why
it has taken so long to address asbestos and lead issues in schools.
- The
role that telemedicine can play in providing students with access to
doctors and counselors.
- A
new agricultural education curriculum for students.
- The
pending approval of a community college in Erie and how that college would
be funded.
- Improving
literacy and providing earlier screening for dyslexia.
- The
popularity of the Education Improvement Tax Credit Program and the need to
fund it.
- The
effectiveness of mental health assessments for students and how often they
should be done.
Watch Full Hearing (Part 1) Runtime
1:58:44
Watch Full Hearing (Part 2) Runtime
1:41:57
Philly School Board overwhelmingly rejects two charter
school proposals
Opponents said that a proposed
health-sciences charter would undermine an existing district school with the
same mission.
The notebook by Bill
Hangley Jr. February 27 — 11:54 pm, 2020
The Board of Education denied two charter
school applications on Thursday, citing poor quality plans that would not offer
city students anything new of value. “Philadelphia school children deserve high
quality schools,” said board member Julia Danzy. “We must be diligent and
provide our children options that provide high quality outcomes.” The two
applications were denied without a single vote in favor. One, a K-8 performing
arts school proposed for West Philadelphia called the Joan Myers Brown Academy,
was denied by a unanimous 8-0 vote. The other, a career-oriented North
Philadelphia high school called the Health Sciences Leadership Charter School
(HS2L), was denied 6-0, with two abstentions. The board has nine members; Maria
McColgan was absent. The board also approved a controversial new contract for
Teach for America, and agreed to support the staff at McClure Elementary, who’d
been asked to make up days lost to asbestos closures by working during their
spring break. “Blameless people should not be punished for the mistakes of
people in power,” said McClure teacher Rachel Baschen.
Wilkinsburg School Board Approves Resolution Calling for
Charter School Funding Reform
Wilkinsburg School District Website February
28, 2020
At it’s Feb. 25 meeting, the Wilkinsburg
School Board approved 8-0 a resolution calling
for charter school funding reform. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf proposed
legislation this week that would reform charter school tuition calculations.
His proposal joins a four-bill package of charter legislation passed by the
House last spring. Information on those bills can be found here. Currently,
the charter school funding formula being used was established in 1997 and has
not been updated or modified since its inception. Charter schools are one
of the fastest-growing costs for all public Pennsylvania school districts, with
school districts currently paying 100 percent of charter school tuition bills.
The Wilkinsburg School Board approved the resolution as a show of support for
reforms that include setting a flat tuition rate for charter schools,
distribution special education funding through a funding formula and stopping
the creation of new cyber charter schools. The complete resolution is
available here.
Fraud investigator will comb through Easton charter school
finances
By Rudy
Miller | For lehighvalleylive.com Updated Feb
28, 2020; Posted Feb 27, 2020
The Easton Arts Academy Elementary Charter School board
hired a fraud investigator Thursday to review the school’s finances. Board
President Michelle Zattoni said Fraud Forensic Investigations LLC will perform
a comprehensive review of the school’s ledgers. The review will stretch back to
when the school opened in 2017 at 30 N. Fourth St. in Easton. The school lost
its three top administrators over the course of the past year. The top finance
administrator, Shawn Ferrara, left the
school in June. CEO Joanna Hughes was fired in
December and Operations Manager Jacque Zupko was
fired in January. Zattoni said there have been questions raised about duties
the administrators performed, although she declined to cite specifics. “We have
to make sure that the finances are under control before we hire new
(administrators) to come in,” she said Thursday. For now, principal William
Wright is serving as interim CEO.
Your View: Why Pennsylvania needs to rein in charter
school costs
By SUSAN SPICKA THE MORNING CALL | FEB
27, 2020 | 9:00 AM
Susan Spicka is executive director of
Education Voters of PA, a statewide nonprofit, nonpartisan public education
advocacy organization based in Philadelphia.
The writers says that although charter school
students represent only 8% of all public school students, in 2017-18, 37 cents
of every new property tax dollar raised was sent to a charter or cybercharter
school.
In the upcoming months, Pennsylvania school districts
will prepare budgets for the next fiscal year and make the hard decision about
whether to increase property taxes to deal with rising costs. One of the
fastest growing costs for all the state’s school districts are charter schools
— publicly funded, privately operated schools that offer education wholly
online or at a site within a community. School districts pay 100% of charter
school tuition bills, and rapidly increasing tuition payments are a top reason
that property taxes continue to rise. Although charter school students
represent only 8% of all public school students, in 2017-18, 37 cents of every new property tax
dollar raised was sent to a charter or cybercharter school. Pennsylvania
taxpayers are spending more than $1.8 billion on
tuition bills for students to attend charter and online cybercharter schools. Tuition
rates are set by the state, but flawed calculations in Pennsylvania’s
22-year-old charter school law mandate payments well beyond the cost to educate
a child. After more than 20 years, the time has come to retool charter funding
to bring payments in line with the costs, eliminate questionable and wasteful
spending by charters, and bring property tax increases under control.
Opinion: Pa. needs to change the law on cyber charter
schools
Pocono Record Opinion By Tomea Sippio-Smith,
Pennlive.com February 28, 2020
Tomea Sippio-Smith is education policy
director, Public Citizens for Children and Youth. Originally published by The
Patriot-News
Pennsylvania’s students belong to the most
digitally savvy generation ever. They use Chrome books and iPads to research,
connect with teachers, and complete assignments. It is not surprising then,
that many students choose to attend virtual or cyber schools. However, like a
destructive virus on a hard drive, Pennsylvania’s cyber charter school law is
causing students to crash. Harrisburg has an easy fix – they can change the
law. Pennsylvania’s students and taxpayers are calling on them to de-bug the
system now. Nearly 80 percent of Pennsylvania school districts offer online
learning programs. When Pennsylvania first passed the cyber charter law in
2002, it was in anticipation of a growing demand. The law hasn’t been updated
since and is missing several key measures that support high quality options for
students, particularly meaningful academic and fiscal accountability. Oddly,
unlike in other states, our charter school law does not set academic benchmarks
that schools must meet to retain their charters. Charters can be renewed even
if they are chronically poor performers. Pennsylvania’s 14 cyber charter
schools have historically and consistently failed to make the grade. When the
Department of Education used the Student Performance Profile to compare public
school performance across the state, no cyber charter school earned a passing
score. In fact, they have never earned a passing score. Ever. Other states’
charter laws mandate closure for such schools – not ours.
To the editor: Misinformation about charter school costs
at Pine-Richland troubling
Pinecreek Journal/Trib Live Letter by Ana
Meyer Executive Director, PA Coalition of Public Charter Schools Tuesday,
February 25, 2020 | 11:00 PM
Dear Editor: It was clear from your Feb. 14
article that Pine-Richland School District officials do not hold public charter
schools or the charter school families, who chose to remove their children from
their district, in high regard. That’s unfortunate. They don’t seem to care why
these students left their district schools or why their families sent them to a
charter school. They just want the money that comes along with these students.
But this taxpayer money doesn’t belong to the Pine-Richland School District, it
belongs to the students who have the right to use it at any public school that
best meets their needs. The fact that leaders of the Pine-Richland School
District (and district leaders across the Commonwealth) call their charter
tuition payments a “cost” is both misleading and an insult to tax-paying
families who are choosing charter schools. Why do school districts label
charter tuition – which provides for the public education of 134,000+ students
statewide – a “cost” or a “debilitating drain” but they advocate for additional
financial “investments” in their schools from the state and local taxpayers?
Regardless of what public school a child attends – school district,
brick-and-mortar charter or cyber charter – they are ALL public school children
and they deserve the same financial support.
West Mifflin schools moving forward with transgender
policy
Post-Gazette by DEANA CARPENTER FEB 27, 2020 6:11
PM
The West Mifflin Area School Board
unanimously voted to direct its solicitor to work with the board’s policy
committee on developing a transgender and gender expansive student policy.
“A transgender policy would provide faculty
and staff with the necessary tools, training and support processes to
appropriately work with transgender and gender expansive students while
reducing potential risk to the district,” said board member Matthew Blazevich,
who made the motion to move forward with the policy Feb. 20 . The vote was 8-0.
Board President Tony Dicenzo was absent. “The policy would provide guidelines
that reduce the stigma of transgender and gender identity issues, normalize the
conversation and provide a platform of understanding,” Mr. Blazevich said. He
added that he and board members have been researching a policy to protect all
students. In January, several teachers, parents and students advocated for a
transgender and gender expansive student policy along the lines of the policy
adopted by the Pittsburgh Public Schools District.
Program lets educators learn what students will need for
future employment
ANDREW GOLDSTEIN Pittsburgh Post-Gazette agoldstein@post-gazette.com FEB 28,
2020
In an ever-changing business landscape,
educators need to be able to keep their lessons relevant so that their students
will have the skills they need to be able to get jobs. One way to do that is to
give teachers insight to what kind of knowledge businesses will want future
employees to have. The Educators Corporations Partnership for STEM
Learning brings K-12 educators into the workplace so that they can focus
their classroom lessons toward helping their students enter STEM-related
college majors and careers. The Allegheny Intermediate Unit’s Math &
Science Collaborative and Partner4Work on Thursday hosted a symposium where
schools and businesses in the Educators Corporations Partnership could share
what they learned in the program. “The goal is to allow those educators to see
first-hand what’s required in those careers, in terms of the skill set, the
education technical skills, soft skills,” said Michael Fierle, the director of
the Math & Science Collaborative of the Allegheny Intermediate Unit. “Our
goal from the collaborative standpoint is to impact learning so that all
students get exposed to more authentic learning experiences that are aligned to
the world of work.”
Applauding Ephrata's bold move to start the school day
later [opinion]
THE LNP | LANCASTERONLINE EDITORIAL BOARD February
28, 2020
THE ISSUE: The Ephrata Area School District
school board voted unanimously Monday to push back school start times beginning
in the 2020-21 school year, LNP | LancasterOnline
staff writer Alex Geli reported Tuesday. (One board
member, Glenn Martin, was absent from Monday’s meeting.) The decision “makes
Ephrata the first Lancaster County school district to significantly push back
its start times, joining a national trend aligning school schedules with
adolescent sleep patterns,” Geli wrote. We applaud
Ephrata for being the first public school district in Lancaster County to make
this move. And we hope other local districts will watch and learn from it. We
believe it’s a necessary experiment, and we recognize that it’s never easy to
be the first to raise your hand for something that creates a lot of extra work
and might have unpopular tangential effects. Last fall, we wrote about the state
General Assembly report titled “Sleep Deprivation in
Adolescents: The Case for Delaying Secondary School Start Times,” which was
created by a team of educators, health professionals, transportation
administrators, parents and students. The report concluded that schools could
address sleep deprivation by moving secondary school start times to 8:30 a.m.
or later.
Leadership of Philly teachers’ union wins re-election
despite growing challenge from activists
WHYY By Avi Wolfman-Arent February 26, 2020 Updated 6:11 p.m.
The incumbent powers of Philadelphia’s
teachers’ union survived a challenge Wednesday from a group that advocated for
a more open and aggressive approach to contract bargaining. While the election
results won’t prompt a leadership shakeup at the nearly 13,000-member
Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT), they suggest that more staff in
Pennsylvania’s largest school district are energized by the idea of new
leadership. Turnout grew by nearly 50% from the last election, with roughly
2,500 more ballots cast. That’s an important message to heed as the PFT
negotiates a new contract for teachers, nurses, paraprofessionals, and other
public-school employees. The current pact expires at the end of August, and the
union has the ability to strike for the first time in nearly 20 years.
Philadelphia's William Hite Named Superintendent Of The
Year
Hite has overseen the opening of innovative
high schools, expanding successful school models, and regaining financial
stability.
By Max
Bennett, Patch Staff Feb 26, 2020 4:10 pm ET
PHILADELPHIA — School District of
Philadelphia Superintendent William R. Hite, Ed.D. will receive the National
School Foundation Association's (NSFA) 2020 Superintendent of the Year Award
when the NFSA convenes its 15th annual National Conference at the Loews
Philadelphia Hotel March 2 through March 4. NSFA's Superintendent of the Year
award was created by the National School Foundation Association to recognize
the important role played by school superintendents in engaging the community
to ensure all students have the resources they need to succeed. Dr. Hite was
selected from among 14 distinguished nominees from around the country. His
nomination was submitted by The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia.
Manheim Township, L-S, Hempfield top county SAT scores.
How did your school do?
Lancaster Online by ALEX GELI | Staff Writer February
28, 2020
Manheim Township, Lampeter-Strasburg and
Hempfield high school students, on average, performed the best among Lancaster
County students on last year's SAT, according to data released this week by the
Pennsylvania Department of Education. Just over 3,200 county high school
students took the test, which is meant to evaluate college readiness despite
increasing colleges eliminating SAT requirements from the application
process. The SAT tests math and reading and writing. Math scores can
range from 200 to 800. Reading and writing scores can range from 200 to 800.
Composite scores, therefore, can range from 400 to 1,600. The state
released average composite scores and average scores per subject for all
eligible districts. The typical, or median, average composite score countywide
was 1,119.
First ever Pennsylvania high school esports championships
to be held in Harrisburg
Penn Live By Deb
Kiner | dkiner@pennlive.com Posted Feb 27, 2020
The Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts will
host the first ever Pennsylvania Interscholastic Esports Championships in
Overwatch and League of Legends on March 28. The virtual matches will begin
March 6. The grand finals will be March 28. The competition will include more
than 50 high school teams from across Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Esports
Association is a collaborative effort
between the McNees, Wallace and Nurick law firm; the Hollinger family; and
Estars, an esports tournament infrastructure company. “Esports is the fastest
growing sport in the world,” said Ted Black, president and CEO of the Whitaker
Center. “We’re supporting the leaders and all-stars of tomorrow by creating a
high school championship that gives these young players the same competitive
opportunities as football, basketball and soccer.”
Japan moves to close all schools over coronavirus
Post-Gazette by The New York Times MOTOKO
RICH, BEN DOOLEY AND MAKIKO INOUE FEB 27, 2020 10:00 PM
TOKYO — After weeks of criticism that Japan
was bungling its reaction to the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe took the drastic step on Thursday of asking all the country’s
schools to close for about a month. With the number of cases steadily rising
and Japan suddenly confronting talk that the Tokyo Olympics may have to be
canceled, Mr. Abe is eager to show that he is moving aggressively to control
the virus. The move to shut schools, which would make Japan one of a few
countries, including China, to suspend classes nationwide, appeared to be an
abrupt reversal of the more cautious stance the administration had taken on the
virus. Japan, unlike neighboring South Korea and other countries, has not
experienced a sharp increase in reported infections. It has had 210 cases,
including four deaths. There have also been more than 700 cases and four deaths
from the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which spent two weeks quarantined while
docked in Yokohama.
“The COAT Act (H.R. 5984) would require private charter management
organizations (PCMOs) to disclose the following to the Department of Education
in order to receive federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act funds:
• The dollar amount and percentage breakdown of money being used
by the PCMO on the operations of the school and on the operations of the PCMO.
• The dollar amount every executive is earning in salary from
the PCMO.
• The identity of any company or organization the PCMO has
financial ties to.
• Whether the PCMO is for-profit or non-profit.
In addition, school districts contracting with PCMOs would have
to require the PCMOs to:
• Hold board meetings that are publicly disclosed and accessible
to the public.
• Annually disclose the members of the board of directors.”
The COAT Act (H.R. 5984): Congresswoman Tlaib (MI-13) Introduces
Bill Increasing Charter School Oversight and Accountability
Congresswoman Tlaib Press Release February
27, 2020
WASHINGTON – Today, in celebration
of Public Schools Week, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-13) introduced the
landmark Charter Oversight, Accountability, and Transparency (COAT) Act, which
will strengthen the country’s public education system by promoting the same
type of accountability from charter schools nationwide that the law requires of
traditional public schools. There is currently a lack of oversight mechanisms
for failing charter schools.
Prior to being sworn in as Secretary of
Education, Betsy DeVos spent 20 years pushing for charter expansion in Tlaib’s
home state of Michigan, which has become home to the nation’s highest number of
schools operated for profit, as well as the most low-performance charter
schools. The issue of charter school oversight and accountability hits the
district Tlaib represents especially hard—59 percent of
Michigan’s charter student body lives in Wayne County and is comprised of a
majority of minority students.
“For
too long for-profit charters have operated without accountability under a
for-profit loving Secretary of Education that has been all too happy to turn a
blind eye to their failures,” said Congresswoman Tlaib. “Without the
necessary oversight for charter schools, our children will continue to suffer
while taxpayers will be caught holding the bill for charter school waste and
abuse. The COAT Act will provide that oversight and ensure our students have a
fighting chance at educational success, a key component of economic success.”
https://tlaib.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-tlaib-introduces-bill-increasing-charter-school-oversight-and
https://tlaib.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-tlaib-introduces-bill-increasing-charter-school-oversight-and
Education Dept. to Cut Off Federal Funding for Some Rural
Schools
A bookkeeping change at the department will
cut thousands of dollars in aid to some of the poorest, most isolated schools
in the country.
New York Times By Erica
L. Green Feb. 28, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON — A bookkeeping change at the
Education Department will kick hundreds of rural school districts out of a
federal program that for nearly two decades has funneled funding to some of the
most geographically isolated and cash-strapped schools in the United States. More
than 800 schools stand to lose thousands of dollars from the Rural and
Low-Income School Program because the department has abruptly changed how
districts are to report how many of their students live in poverty. The change,
quietly announced in letters to state education leaders, comes after the
Education Department said a review of the program revealed that districts had
“erroneously” received funding because they had not met eligibility
requirements outlined in the federal education law since 2002. The department
said it would strictly enforce a requirement that in order to get funding,
districts must use data from the Census Bureau’s Small Area Income and Poverty
Estimates to determine whether 20 percent of their area’s school-age children
live below the poverty line.
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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