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PA Ed Policy Roundup for Feb 3, 2020
Register now for
Advocacy Day at the Capitol on March 23rd!
Key focus areas are
1) Charter School Funding Reform, 2) BEF and Special Education Funding, and 3)
Funding for PlanCon
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“Gov. Tom Wolf has previously called for reform of charter
schools, particularly cyber charters that have no local oversight. Legislators should follow suit and begin addressing the
funding formula, starting with the cyberschools.”
Editorial: Charter school funding: Time for lawmakers to
fix flawed system
Impactful reform will start with addressing
the funding formula
THE EDITORIAL BOARD Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette JAN 31, 2020 6:15 AM
Charter school funding, an oft-visited topic
of debate in the Pennsylvania Legislature, is back on the agenda this year,
most recently with hearings on a proposal that would vastly restructure the
role of cyber charter schools. Lawmakers are well aware of the funding issues
with charter schools and need to fix the inequities in the flawed system. A
good starting point would be a change in the way cyber charter schools are
funded. Charter schools were created by the Legislature in 1997 with a funding
formula that essentially calls for the money to follow the student. A
district’s per-pupil cost is the tuition paid by the district to the charter
school a student attends. There is no cost to the student. Those tuition
payments can vary from district to district, ranging from about $7,000 per
student to nearly $18,000. Charter schools, though publicly funded, are
privately managed. Brick-and-mortar schools have to get a charter from a local
school board, but cyberschools are approved by the state and have no oversight
from local elected officials.
“We applaud this group for showing leadership on behalf of local
school boards and taxpayers, and we urge state lawmakers to heed their call.
This debate should not be partisan nor should it hinge on attitudes about
school choice. Reform is needed to manage the tax burden and to ensure that
children, regardless of choice, are in schools that are held accountable to
high standards. We urge lawmakers to learn from these school leaders and enact
needed reforms.”
Editorial: Pennsylvania school superintendents taking aim
at charter school reform
Delco Times Editorial February 2, 2020
The long-simmering issue of charter school
reform in Pennsylvania was brought to the forefront last week, which was National School Choice
Week, by a legion of school superintendents
banding together in a call for change in
charter school laws. More than 30 superintendents from districts in five
counties across the greater Philadelphia region stood together at a press
conference in Eagleville, Montgomery County, to announce themselves as a new
coalition, the Leaders for Educational Accountability and Reform Network. LEARN
is comprised of “school leaders who are standing up for public education and
fighting for charter school reform,” said Frank Gallagher, superintendent of
Souderton Area School District. Superintendents from districts, large and
small, with diverse demographics took to the podium with statistics and
anecdotes about the damaging effect of current charter school law on local
public school finances. Jim Scanlon, superintendent of the West Chester Area
School District, said the only reforms to charter school law in Pennsylvania in
recent years have “further undermined the local control and reduced our ability
to hold schools accountable.”
Equal cost for equal education: Local districts lobby for
change in charter school payments
Ellwood City Ledger By Daveen
Rae Kurutz @DK_NewsData and @DKreports February 2,
2020 Posted at 5:00 AM
Area school officials are lobbying
Pennsylvania legislators to support a proposal from Gov. Tom Wolf that would
level the checkbook for traditional public schools when it comes to their
charter school payments. When a child attends a charter school, the school
district redirects taxpayer dollars to the new school according to a formula
based on enrollment and budget numbers. That means the tuition payment can vary
wildly from district to district. Location is everything — especially when it
comes to charter school payments. When a Rochester Area School District student
receiving special education services transfers to a public charter school, the
district pays more than $37,000 to the new school. If that child lives down the
road in the New Brighton Area School District, the number is about a third
lower — that district pays $25,000 for a student to receive the same education.
“They’re paying less for that exact same student,” said Jane Bovolino,
superintendent at Rochester. “All we’re saying is make it fair.” Bovalino and
other Rochester officials are lobbying Pennsylvania legislators to support a
proposal from Gov. Tom Wolf that would level the checkbook for traditional
public schools when it comes to their charter school payments. Last month, they
met with Sen. Elder Vogel Jr., R-47, New Sewickley Township, and have a meeting
scheduled with state Rep. Josh Kail, R-15, Beaver, later this month that they
hope Rep. Jim Marshall, R-14, Big Beaver, will be able to attend.
Cyber charter schools are awash in money they waste |
Opinion
Penn Live By Susan Spicka January 31, 2020
Susan Spicka is executive director, Education
Voters of PA
Legislators in Harrisburg may finally take
action to address cyber charter school funding and academic performance issues.
That should be music to the ears of Pennsylvanians in every corner of the
commonwealth. Each year, Pennsylvania school districts spend $500 million in
local taxpayer money on student tuition bills for cyber charter schools. In
order to pay these bills, school districts must raise property taxes, cut
teachers, or eliminate programs for students. Because the tuition school districts pay cyber
charter schools far exceeds the cost of educating students at home on a
computer, cyber charter schools are awash in excess money that they waste.And
the evidence of this waste is in plain sight. Money intended to be spent
educating children is instead spent on billboards, TV commercials, internet
ads, and expensive mailing pieces advertising cyber charter schools. Public
relations firms, lobbyists, and the CEOS and shareholders of private management
companies profit from property tax dollars they receive from cyber charter
schools. And Nick Trombetta, founder and former CEO of PA Cyber, went to jail
for fraud after spending more than $8 million in taxpayer money on a private
airplane, vacation homes, and other luxuries. It is past time for Harrisburg to
enact funding reforms that will protect taxpayers from the flagrant waste,
fraud, and abuse of taxpayer money by cyber charter schools.
It is also past time for Harrisburg to
address the abysmal academic performance of these schools. More than 35,000 students
attend state-authorized cyber charters and these students deserve schools that
will provide them with a quality education.
Charter school tuition is now biggest budget pressure for
school districts
POSTED ON JANUARY 31, 2020 IN PSBA
NEWS
PSBA announced that
the results from the recently completed 2020 State of Education survey show
that more than 70% of school districts identified mandatory charter school
tuition costs as one of their biggest sources of budget pressure. This marks
the first time in the four years of the survey that charter tuition payments, not
pension costs, have been the most commonly identified budget pressure for
Pennsylvania’s public school districts. Survey results are based on responses
from more than 320 school districts. Look for the new report to be released by
PSBA in March!
“Lawmakers across the political spectrum, even those seen as
strong proponents of school choice in Pennsylvania, have indicated that the
charter school funding formula needs to be revamped, but there has been no
broad agreement on any one proposal.”
School officials from across Pennsylvania push for state
to address special education, charter school funding
By Kim Jarrett | The
Center Square January 31, 2020
State school districts are struggling because
of increases in special education and charter school costs, a group of school
business professionals and superintendents said at a news conference Friday. The
Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials (PASBO) and the Pennsylvania
Association of School Administrators (PASA) released a report Friday on
the financial health of the commonwealth’s 500 school districts. State
officials begin the budgeting process for the 2020-21 fiscal year next week. Much
of that cost burden has been placed on local taxpayers as partial reimbursement
for charter school tuitions ended in 2011 and increased state funding has not
kept up with growth, the group said. About $0.76 of new property tax dollars
raised during a five-year period between the 2012-13 school year and the
2017-18 school year paid only for charter schools and special education costs,
according to information from the two organizations. The increase in special
education funding is due to increased enrollment and the need for other
services. The state’s special education spending increased by $1.2 billion
during that five-year period, Diane Richards of the Governor Mifflin School
District in Berks County said. Enrollment in cyber and charter schools also
has increased. “Ten years ago, school districts paid $800 million in
charter school tuition,” said Brian Pawling, director of business affairs at
the Souderton Area School District. “We anticipate that school districts will
pay more than $2 billion in charter schools costs this year, a 150 percent
increase.” While some of the increase is due to enrollment, much of it is due
to the charter school tuition formula, Pawling said. The formula has not been
changed in 22 years.
To access a copy of the PASBO/PASA School District Budget
Report visit https://www.pasbo.org/2020-winterbudget-report.
“We cannot wait any longer for charter school reform that will
address skyrocketing costs and serious financial and academic accountability
issues in Pennsylvania’s 20-year-old charter school law.”
An unprecedented and powerful statewide movement is
building in PA.
Education Voters PA Published by EDVOPA on January 31, 2020
We are seeing an unprecedented and powerful
movement to reform Pennsylvania’s charter school law building throughout the
commonwealth.
This week, school leaders from 30 school
districts in five counties in southeastern Pennsylvania held a press conference
in Montgomery County at the same time that superintendents from districts in
Huntingdon, Juniata, Fulton, and Mifflin Counties held one in central PA.
They delivered the same message: We cannot
wait any longer for charter school reform that will address skyrocketing costs
and serious financial and academic accountability issues in Pennsylvania’s
20-year-old charter school law.
Urban, suburban, and rural school leaders
spoke with a united voice because Pennsylvania’s broken charter school law
negatively impacts every school district in the commonwealth from tiny Forbes
Road in Fulton County (student population 384) to the School District of
Philadelphia, which educates more than 200,000 students.
Hopkinson the latest school to close due to asbestos
fears
It is the seventh school this year to
temporarily close.
the
Notebook February 2 — 10:02 pm, 2020
Francis Hopkinson School in Juniata will be
closed Monday and Tuesday due to new concerns that “asbestos-containing
materials may have been disturbed above ceiling tiles that were replaced over
the summer,” according to a School District press release. As with other
temporary school closures that have occurred this school year, staff will
report to the Little School House while students will be able to stop by
between 7:30 and 9:30 a.m. to pick up grab-and-go breakfasts and lunches. Prior
cases of damaged asbestos at the school “that have been identified were
communicated with families and addressed,” the statement said. Independent
companies will do the testing and the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT)
“will be invited to work with the District on the process and all results will
be reviewed with the organization.”
Asbestos forces closure of another Philly school
Inquirer by Kristen A. Graham and Wendy Ruderman, Updated: February 2, 2020-
9:07 PM
Concerns over widespread damaged asbestos
have closed another Philadelphia school. Hopkinson Elementary, a crowded
Juniata K-8 that educates 850 students, will be closed at least Monday and
Tuesday while air testing is completed in the building. It is the seventh
school to close in the 2019-20 term. Crews had been working at Hopkinson, on L
Street, addressing “imminent hazards” in multiple locations across the school,
including the cafeteria. The school remained open, with key locations sealed
off and workers completing remediation when children and staff were not in the
building. But the situation escalated Friday, when officials of the
Philadelphia Federation of Teachers union shared with Hopkinson staff the
extent of the damage at the school. During an earlier district walk-through,
environmental staff had observed roughly 55 locations of damaged asbestos. Much
of it was above ceiling tiles, with visible debris sitting on top of the tile.
Asbestos is a crisis for Philly schools, but also for the
city | Editorial
The Inquirer Editorial Board | opinion@inquirer.com Updated: February
2, 2020 - 5:00 AM
A growing population, rising home values, and
overall growth has led Philadelphia to a state of relative “civic well-being”
as Pew’s “State of the City”
report recently put it. The city has changed
from a place that people want to flee to a place people want to be. But that
could change — fast. The city’s homicide rate is enough cause for concern, but
an environmental crisis in the schools poses a bigger threat, since schools are
key to driving people’s decisions to leave or move to a city. Increased investment
and academic improvements have made a difference. But for the past school year,
the school district has been coping with a perfect storm of old buildings and
years of deficit funding that are erupting into environmental emergencies. A
spate of exposed asbestos has led to school closures, as well as fear and panic
among teachers, parents, and community members. Last year, a Philadelphia teacher was
diagnosed with mesothelioma, a cancer caused by asbestos. The
school year has resembled a whack-a-mole of toxic schools, with an asbestos
problem discovered, the problem fixed, only to be followed by yet another
school with exposed asbestos or worse: a “fixed“ school determined not fixed
after all.
“Wolf is expected to continue his five-year push to give more
money to public schools amid a lawsuit accusing the state of harboring deep
inequities in how it funds the poorest public schools. One of Wolf's focuses
could be charter school reimbursements, which the Pennsylvania School Boards
Association said are their members' biggest budget pressure and are “based on a
skewed and unfair funding equation.” School advocates also say the process
disproportionately siphons cash away from the poorest districts. Republican
leaders have maintained the status quo despite longstanding complaints.”
What to Watch for in Pennsylvania Governor's Budget
Proposal
Gov. Tom Wolf's sixth budget proposal is
coming out Tuesday, and the Democrat is expected to seek more money for
education and emphasize the urgency of addressing student-loan debt and
cleaning up lead and asbestos in schools.
US News BY MARC LEVY, Associated Press Feb.
1, 2020, at 9:53 a.m.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf's sixth
budget proposal to the Republican-controlled Legislature will come out Tuesday,
and the Democrat is expected to seek more for public schools and emphasize the
urgency of addressing student-loan debt and cleaning up lead and asbestos in
schools. Many details of the plan, which could exceed $35 billion, remain under
wraps, although the governor's office in recent days has rolled out some
features. Wolf himself said his spending blueprint for 2020-21 fiscal year that
starts July 1 would hold the line on taxes and contain “no surprises.” To a
large degree, Wolf is hemmed in by the Legislature's Republican majorities.
While Wolf's relationship with top Republican lawmakers has been stable since a
protracted budget dispute in 2017, they have generally blocked his most expansive
proposals since he took office in 2015. Five things to watch in the governor's
plan:
“School officials warn that despite the proposal to help pay for
repairs, districts are hamstrung by other increasing costs, principally from pension,
special education and charter school bills. “School district mandated costs are
increasing and straining school district budgets. State funding is increasing,
but it’s not keeping up with the growth, and the state’s share of funding in
multiple line items continues to fall,” according to a report released Friday
by the Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials. The school groups
said the state needs to take a broad look at how schools are funded, including
the fact that much of school funding comes from local taxpayers through
property taxes.”
Old battles remain part of Gov. Wolf’s new budget plan
Meadville Tribune By John Finnerty CNHI News
Service February 1, 2020
HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf will unveil his
sixth budget on Tuesday, a spending plan that he’s already indicated will
include some familiar proposals, including a bid to increase the minimum wage
and use a new tax on natural gas drilling to pay for a wide variety of spending
proposals. One big change this year is that the governor is proposing to make
$1 billion available through the state’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital
Program for school districts to pay for repairs to alleviate problems with lead
and asbestos. Despite that proposal, school officials are concerned, saying
state aid hasn’t kept pace with rising costs in other areas, most notably
pensions, special education and charter school bills.
Here's a closer look at the key budget
issues:
“The appeal, the parent said, lies in the reputation of a group
of “good” schools, which generally educate more white students and fewer
low-income students than the rest of the district. Greenfield, for instance, is
a National Blue Ribbon award winner, a place where parents aim to raise $125,000
per year to fund enrichment programs, grants for teachers, and other extras.
Nearly 60% of its students are white, and just 20% live in poverty, setting it
apart from the majority of Philadelphia public schools, which educate mostly
poor students of color.”
Why Philly parents lined up at 4 a.m. to get their kids
into kindergarten
Inquirer by Kristen A. Graham, Updated: January
31, 2020- 12:03 PM
The first parents got in line well before the
sun rose on Jan. 27. By 4:15, four people were waiting to register their
children for one of the 90 coveted spots in kindergarten classes at Greenfield
Elementary in Center City. By 7 a.m., it was close to 50. Parents were
eventually issued numbers based on their position in line and assigned times to
come back to complete registration paperwork. “It was mass panic for no reason,"one
parent said. “We’re not promoting free for everyone with public school if this
is how we’re going to roll.” Another was incredulous that there is no sibling
preference or ability to complete paperwork online, and upset there was no
lottery at Greenfield. “You needed a network to get the inside information
about the line, and flexibility with work to be able to stand out there, and
then to come back later in the day to register,” the parent said. The line was
more evidence of the growing demand for spots in some Philadelphia public
schools and a significant long-term change in public perception of the
Philadelphia School District among middle-class families. “Ten years ago, 20 years ago, some people
wouldn’t even consider sending their kids to Philadelphia public schools,” said
one Greenfield parent, who like many, declined to be identified, citing fears
of blowback on their family. “This is a revolution in terms of demand and
appeal.”
Upper Darby looks at later high school start time
Delco Times By Kevin Tustin ktustin@21st-centurymedia.com Jan 30,
2020
UPPER DARBY — Upper Darby school
administrators and school board members will have a lot to sleep on as they
start to investigate delaying the start time for high school students. A number
of potential scenarios were created by a committee of administrators and
made public for the first time Tuesday night to push back the start time for
secondary education students (high school and/or middle school). The district’s
scenarios for potential delayed start time implementation come three months after
the state published its own study making the case for later start times, with a
general consensus being 8:30 a.m. to provide adequate sleep for adolescents who
generally go to bed later and get up later than younger students. At present,
Upper Darby High School students start their day 7:30 a.m. and middle school
students start at 8 a.m. Assistant Superintendent Ed Marshaleck provided the
start times and some costs associated with seven options outlining what may
work for the district if they and a delayed start:
“While most who spoke had messages for the students,
administrators and staff, OJR Superintendent Susan Lloyd directed her comments
toward the legislators in the room. “My hope is that you will leave here today
with a deeper commitment to public education and that you are compelled to
create schools like West Vincent all across Pennsylvania,” Lloyd said.”
West Vincent Elementary celebrates Blue Ribbon School
recognition
Pottstown Mercury By Laura Catalano For
MediaNews Group January 31, 2020
WEST VINCENT—The last time an Owen J. Roberts
School District school was named a National Blue Ribbon School, the year was
2003. So, on Friday, when the district celebrated the 2019-20 recognition of
West Vincent Elementary School, the excitement was palpable. Teachers, staff,
board members, administrators and public officials all beamed with pride. But
perhaps none were more excited than the nearly 600 students who attend the
school. Filling the school gym with a sea of blue shirts, they danced, they
applauded, and they directed their full attention to the speakers who, one
after another, took the podium before the school’s stage. At the end of the
program, when Principal Edward Smith showed a video about the school featuring
every grade, the entire student body clapped gleefully along to the music. The
ceremony itself was not only a tribute to the national award, which is given to
less than one-half of one percent of schools each year, Smith said, but it was
also a celebration of the joy of teaching and learning fostered at West
Vincent.
LET’S RETHINK OUR SCHOOL BOARD
Applications for the school board are due
tomorrow. But without pay or accountability to citizens, this WURD host
wonders, how can we really expect them to solve what ails the struggling
system?
Philadelphia Citizen BY CHARLES D. ELLISON JAN. 30,
2020
If you didn’t know already, applications for
nomination to the Philadelphia School Board are now due Friday, January 31. You
also probably didn’t know that deadline was extended by over a week—a sign that
perhaps word of the nomination process, which happens automatically with a new
mayoral term, didn’t really catch. Nor is it easy to find any information about
the applications on the Board of Education’s website. Or, maybe
you did know, but couldn’t possibly apply. Because how many people
in Philly really can deal with the thankless hassle of leading a big city
school district with an over $3 billion budget … without pay?
Philadelphia and the Commonwealth as a whole seriously need to explore the
question: Should school board members be (1) elected and (2) paid? Doing so may
help us arrive closer to an answer on some of the beleaguered public school
district’s most pressing needs and problems. Understandably, city officials,
the mayor and City Council president chief among them, may view the prospect of
an elected school board as unruly, unwieldy and yet another political power
headache in a city plagued by too many. Keeping the school board appointed
keeps it under the full control and supervision of City Hall, versus the unpredictable
nature of a new class of competitive politician. But, even as Mayor Kenney
argued for “accountability” as his core reasoning for dissolving the state’s
imposed School Reform Commission (SRC)
in 2017, that didn’t settle the question of whom that board is
accountable to.
U.S. and PA Legislators Visit Renaissance Academy
RA invited key legislators and
representatives from the US Senate, US House of Representatives, and the PA
House of Representatives.
Phoenixville Patch By Holly
Mandia, Neighbor Jan 31, 2020 4:23 pm ET
Phoenixville, PA – On Thursday, January 30,
2020, Renaissance Academy (RA) was visited by legislators and representatives
from the US Senate, US House of Representatives, and the PA House of
Representatives. Earlier this school year, the RA Administration and Board of
Trustees invited all State Reps/State Senators, Congressional Representatives
and County Commissioners from Montgomery County and Chester County as well as
Education Committee Members in all four caucuses to attend a Legislative
Breakfast. Regarding the purpose of the event, Dr. Gina Guarino Buli, RA CEO,
said, "We wanted to open our doors to the key decision-makers in
Harrisburg in an effort to be transparent with our practices and increase the
overall educational opportunities for students throughout the
Commonwealth."
The Education Reform Movement Has Failed America. We Need
Common Sense Solutions That Work.
Time BY DIANE
RAVITCH 7:00 AM EST
Ravitch's new book is Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to
Privatization and the fight to Save America's Public Schools. She is a
research professor of education at New York University and the author of eleven
books.
The education reform movement that started
with George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind law is dead. It died because every
strategy it imposed on the nation’s schools has failed. From Bush’s No Child
Left Behind to Obama’s Race to the Top to Bill Gates’ Common Core State
Standards to Trump’s push for school choice, the reformers have come up
empty-handed. The “reformers” relied on the business idea that disruption is a
positive good. I call them “disruptors,” not reformers. Reformers have
historically called for more funding, better trained teachers, desegregation,
smaller class sizes. The disruptors, however, banked on a strategy of testing,
competition, and punishment, which turned out to be ineffective and harmful. Congress
passed Bush’s No Child Left Behind law in 2001 based on his claim that there
had been a “Texas miracle.” Test every child every year in grades 3-8, he said,
reward the schools where scores went up, punish those where scores did not, and
great things happen: scores rise, graduation rates increase, and the gaps
between racial groups get smaller. We now know that it was empty talk: There
was no Texas miracle. But every public school in the nation continues to be
saddled with an expensive regime of annual standardized testing that is not
found in any high-performing nation.
Who Could Be the Next Secretary of Education After the
2020 Election?
Education Week Politics K12 By Andrew Ujifusa on February
2, 2020 9:12 AM
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has
shown how politically potent and polarizing ideas like school choice can be
when the public attaches them so strongly to a highly visible person. So with
the Iowa caucuses upon us, let's permit ourselves to wonder: Who could be the
next secretary of education? We asked several lobbyists, analysts, and others
for their responses to that question; they talked to us on background in order
to speak candidly. Some of the names they suggested have come up in the
past. To be clear, though, none of the people we talked to work directly for
the Democratic or Republican campaigns. So maybe don't make triumphant or
despondent TikTok videos about any of the names we mention just yet. And of
course the names below don't constitute any sort of comprehensive list. One
thing we heard consistently: In part due to Democrats' attitude towards
and public statements about DeVos, a Democratic president-elect is particularly
likely to pick someone who is or has recently been a practitioner and worked in
the public education sector. But it's also fair to ponder whether the next
secretary (whether he or she works for a Democrat or Republican) will hail from
a higher education background, given all the attention on the 2020 campign
trail to student debt and the cost of higher education. DeVos herself has
recently demonstrated that the secretary often has much more authority over
higher education than over K-12.
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
Register at http://mypsba.org
School Leaders: Register today for @PSBA @PASA @PAIU Advocacy Day at the
Capitol on March 23rd and you could be the lucky winner of my school board
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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:
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.
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