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PA Ed Policy Roundup for May 1, 2020
School
Leaders: If you were previously registered for Advocacy Day at the Capitol,
please register and join us for our first ever Virtual Advocacy Day
on Monday, May 11, 2020, via Zoom. Register now at no
cost on myPSBA.
“Doors close + costs go up = Y?
During a board meeting Tuesday, Strite used a PowerPoint
presentation to explain the current situation (it can be found on the district
website at www.wasd.k12.pa.us under “board presentations”). She said
common sense could indicate if schools are closed, they should be saving money,
but the opposite is true due to state mandates that the district has no control
over. “Act 13 of 2020 mandated payment of all school employees and coaches for
their regular pay for this school year,” Strite said. “We are still paying for
the employees and coaches, even though school is closed. Food service is
currently losing approximately $40,000 per week in revenue, but is mandated to
pay all staff and benefits. We are paying for providing free lunches and
breakfasts to students that need it.” In addition, Strite said, the district is
paying for bus contracts on transportation that’s not being used. There are
other costs as well, that continue despite school being closed.”
WASD facing $2 million deficit
Record Herald By Andrea
Rose Posted at 6:01 AM
WAYNESBORO — Waynesboro Area School District
officials have a big math problem in front of them. They are facing a $2
million 2020-2021 budget deficit. “When we were doing our budget meetings in
January and February, we were very happy we were at a $400,000 deficit — which
sounds bad, but for us it was great. That was all the money we needed to find
to be at a balanced budget. But when the pandemic hit, we now find ourselves at
a $2 million deficit,” explained School Board Director Patti Strite. “The
budget was based on a 3.35 mill tax increase, which was the governor’s proposed
budget for 2020-2021 and that was not [as much] as we could have raised it. It
was below the index,” she said. But the budget was also based on increases in
revenue such as real estate transfer taxes and certainly never projected a
pandemic would force schools to close. “Act 13 requires WASD to continue paying
over $8 million to the pension system and continue paying all cyber/charter
school costs, special education programs and building renovation bond
payments,” Strite explained. And then there are the additional costs associated
with the educating students at home. “To ensure enrichment and instruction,
WASD has incurred expenditures for software and technology that was not
budgeted. Those are the programs we are teaching our students with now,” Strite
said.
“My concern is not with the legislature desiring to provide
relief to taxpayers,” Penn Manor Superintendent Mike Leichliter said, “but
rather with a haphazard approach to one size fits all solutions while not
providing relief for taxpayers to the continued state-mandated cost drivers for
which schools have no control.”
A 'haphazard approach': School officials reject GOP
proposals to freeze property taxes next year
Lancaster Online by ALEX GELI | Staff Writer May 1, 2020
The second highest ranking Republican in the
state House of Representatives is pushing legislation to force school boards
into freezing property taxes next year. State House Majority Leader Bryan
Cutler, of Lancaster County, says the proposal is meant to ease the burden on
millions of Pennsylvanians who find themselves in dire financial straits due to
the coronavirus pandemic. But school officials say taking budget decisions out
of the hands of school board members who are already sensitive to residents'
struggles isn’t the answer. “In my opinion, our locally elected school board
members should be the ones deciding on local school district taxes,” Hempfield
Superintendent Mike Bromirski said. Pennsylvania’s 500 school districts are
working to finalize their 2020-21 budgets in the next few months. Meanwhile,
state and federal funding remain in limbo, and school districts won’t find
relief in existing state-mandated costs. The Pennsylvania Association of School
Business Officials estimates state mandates, such as charter school tuition
payments and special education costs, will increase by more than $500 million
statewide. What’s more, PASBO projects up to $1 billion in
local revenue losses next year because of the swift economic downturn brought
on by the health crisis. PASBO, the Pennsylvania State Education Association
and Pennsylvania School Boards Association have announced opposition to
legislation freezing property taxes.
Click here to see the estimated range of total local
revenue loss for each school district under PASBO's assumptions for 2020-21.
Click here to see the estimated range of total local revenue loss for each school district in spreadsheet form.
Click here to see the estimated range of total local revenue loss for each school district in spreadsheet form.
PASBO ESTIMATES SCHOOL DISTRICTS COULD EXPERIENCE $1
BILLION LOSS IN LOCAL REVENUE IN 2020-21
PASBO On:
04/28/2020 11:23:42
PASBO released it's projection of the drop in
local revenues for school districts next year the day after the House State
Government Committee approved a bill to freeze school district property taxes
next year. PASBO's estimate of the loss of local revenue is based on a study of
the effect of school taxes during the Great Recession and a projection that the
COVID-19 economy will create deeper and much more immediate cuts. “Every school
district tax source and other non-tax revenue will suffer a precipitous decline
for the upcoming school year,” according to Dr. Timothy J. Shrom, PASBO
director of research, who developed the PASBO projection with Dr. Andrew
Armagost, PASBO research and advocacy manager. “In an economic downturn we know
that unemployment goes up, thereby reducing our local income tax revenue, and
we know that the real estate market will be affected resulting in a reduction
of our real estate transfer tax We also know that our taxpayers will need more
time to pay, thus reducing property tax revenues, and with the significant cuts
in the rates, interest earnings will take a hit as well” stated Shrom. If
there is a quick turnaround in the economy, the PASBO data suggests the
reduction in total local revenue will be more than $850 million for 2020-21. If
the economic recovery lags, however, PASBO projects a loss in total local
revenue of $1.07 billion. Currently, school districts collect about $18 billion
in total local revenue so the PASBO projected decline represents a loss of 4-5%
in total local revenue. This projected loss in local revenue for school
districts comes as the state faces its own financial challenges, creating
unprecedented uncertainty for school districts on all revenue fronts for
2020-21.
Letter to the Editor: Why cyber charter schools are
failures
Delco Times Opinion by Will
Richan, Chester April 30, 2020
Too bad about those cyber charter schools.
They were hoping to cash in big time on virtual education, since that was
already their specialty while their brick- and-mortar cousins and the district
schools were still struggling to adapt to the new world created by the
coronavirus pandemic. All thanks to the taxpayers, of course. Yes, they are
called “public” cyber charters, which means you and I pay the bills.
Now they’re upset because the state is saying
that, if a school district offers its own cyber program, it doesn’t have to pay
for the same service twice by also paying a cyber charter.
As the least regulated – thus least
accountable – sector of the public education system, cyber charters have been
able to get paid royally for what would have to be considered a less than a
great product. Unlike brick and mortar charters, the cybers do not report to
the local school district but directly to Harrisburg, in theory at least. And
just how much the Pennsylvania Department of Education invests in holding the
cybers accountable is a good question.
Want to know where that money for cyber
charters actual goes or how it’s used? Try finding out. The Pennsylvania
charter school law does not require independent audits for charter school
organizations, unlike district schools.
One of the big expenses for those cybers is
advertising. If you don’t think so, just go to Google and check “cyber charter
schools.” You will see the term “free” thrown around a lot. Like all those
“free” things in the numerous TV ads for patent medicines, with pictures
of happy old folks playing with the grandkids, and the warnings about possible
side effects in small print at the bottom of the screen that are whisked away
before you have a chance to read them. No, that’s us paying those bills
for those ads, which means less for actual education.
Then, of course, there are the profits for
the cyber charters’ owners, who, unlike the rest of us, don’t need to pay for
the kind of real estate, building upkeep, etc., that the rest do. Again,
unaccounted for. As to what kind of education children get in cyber charters,
the results are dismal in most cases. One study by Public Citizens for Children
and Youth found that more than 61 percent of cyber charter students failed the
reading portion of the PSSA, the standardized test used throughout the state,
while over 85 percent did not pass math. So buyer beware. Yes, it is
your tax money, and, just as with those sleek car ads, you need to know what’s
under the hood.
Virtual Illusion: Comparing Student Achievement and
Teacher and Classroom Characteristics in Online and Brick-and-Mortar Charter
Schools
Sage Educational Researcher by Brian R. Fitzpatrick*, Mark Berends*, Joseph J. Ferrare*, First Published March 11, 2020 Research
Article Abstract
As researchers continue to examine the
growing number of charter schools in the United States, they have focused
attention on the significant heterogeneity of charter effects on student
achievement. Our article contributes to this agenda by examining the
achievement effects of virtual charter schools vis-à-vis brick-and-mortar
charters and traditional public schools and whether characteristics of teachers
and classrooms explain the observed impacts. We found that students who
switched to virtual charter schools experienced large, negative effects on
mathematics and English/language arts achievement that persisted over time and
that these effects could not be explained by observed teacher or classroom
characteristics.
“Property, earned income and real estate transfer taxes, as well
as delinquent tax collections and investment earnings all are expected to take
a serious hit with so many people not working and many businesses either closed
or limited while mandatory shut-downs are in place, he said. And that impact
likely will drag on once the restrictions are lifted. Hardie said the
Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials recently compiled a
report on what to expect.”
Dire forecast: School districts’ finances sickened by
pandemic
Beaver County Times By Patrick
O’Shea @NewsAddict2 Posted
at 12:05 AM
Pennsylvania school districts are learning
their finances have been another victim of the COVID-19 pandemic. Faced with
uncertainty about how much revenue they reasonably can expect with expenses
still rising, districts are struggling with ways to create balanced budgets for
next year without massive cuts to programs and possibly even furloughs of
employees. It is a problem being faced by most industries in the nation right
now, but for schools it has the added dilemmas of involving the educational
lives of millions of children and a lack of control over many costs due to
government mandates and contracts. “It is the hardest thing we ever have had to
deal with,” said Wade Killmeyer, executive director of the Midwestern
Intermediate Unit IV in Grove City, which oversees public, private,
career-technical and charter schools in Butler, Lawrence and Mercer counties. One
of the districts in his intermediate unit dealing with the situation is Ellwood
City Area, which serves about 2,000 students in southern Lawrence County. At a
budget meeting earlier this week, the district’s business manager, Jason
Hardie, warned school board members that they could be facing a dire financial
outlook for 2020-21.
Philly schools superintendent joins national push for
more federal funds for schools
By Chanel Hill Special to the Capital-Star April 30,
2020
PHILADELPHIA — School
District of Philadelphia Superintendent William Hite and 61 other big-city
superintendents are calling on Congress to approve new funding for local school
systems. “The economic recession resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has the
potential to erase all of the progress we’ve made after overcoming severe
financial challenges in 2012,” Hite said Thursday. “Now is the time for us all
to think of ways to advocate at every level to ensure that none of our
districts have to make those difficult decisions. We’re committed to making
sure our students will continue to receive the support and resources they need
to get the education they deserve,” he added. In a letter to Congress, the
Council of the Great City Schools, the coalition of large urban school
districts of which the School District of Philadelphia is a member, asked
lawmakers for financial support to help offset the unexpected costs districts
are incurring in providing meal services to students and providing home-based
instruction while schools are closed.
Anatomy of a billion-dollar deficit: A behind-the-scenes
look at the economic tsunami facing Philly schools
WHYY By Avi Wolfman-Arent May 1, 2020
Last Wednesday, the School District of
Philadelphia’s finance team hopped on a conference call to review a spreadsheet
full of large numbers. It should have been boring. But it wasn’t. Over the
course of that hour, the following people and topics would be invoked: Governor
Tom Wolf, tax delinquency, the U.S. Department of Education, the price
elasticity of hard alcohol, the fate of Philadelphia’s restaurant industry, the
global stock market, and school Superintendent William Hite. And that’s only a
partial list. One day later, district CFO Uri Monson revealed a sobering new
budget. It projected Pennsylvania’s largest school district to have a $1 billion deficit by fiscal year 2025. So how did
the school district come up with those figures? The short answer: a mix of
instincts, math, and bedrock principles. The longer, more interesting answer
can be found by following that conference call — which district officials
allowed WHYY to monitor.
“The board also approved a resolution calling for Pennsylvania
to pass meaningful charter reform, saying that charter costs are growing much
faster than charter enrollment, squeezing school systems unfairly, and that
districts are overpaying charters and reimbursing them for costs they do not
incur. “The need for significant charter school funding reform is urgent,” the
resolution says, “and school districts are struggling to keep up with growing
charter costs, and are forced to raise taxes and cut staffing, programs, and
services in order to pay increased costs to charter schools.”
Philly school board non-renews 2 charters, allows a third
to move to East Falls over neighbors’ concerns
Inquirer by Kristen A. Graham, Updated: April
30, 2020- 9:16 PM
The Philadelphia school board on Thursday
night voted against renewing the charters of two schools run by Universal
Companies Inc., an organization that educates thousands across the city. The
two elementary schools, Universal Bluford and Universal Daroff, were district
schools that struggled for years before being given to Universal, the nonprofit
run by music impresario Kenny Gamble, to turn around. But both were cited for
deficiencies in finance and organizational compliance. Universal Daroff failed
to meet academic standards. Universal Bluford fared better, approaching the
district’s K-8 academic standards, but still was generally underperforming when
compared with peer schools, according to a district report. Daroff’s nonrenewal
passed unanimously; Bluford’s was approved by 8-1, with Julia Danzy the lone
negative vote. The board’s actions are the first steps in a process that could
see Universal’s charters revoked and the schools returning to district control.
Lab Charter relocation to East Falls is approved
Board votes 5-4 in favor of the move. East
Falls resident Joyce Wilkerson casts the deciding vote.
The notebook by Dale
Mezzacappa April 30 — 9:10 pm, 2020
The building on the site of the former
Medical College of Pennsylvania where Laboratory Charter has been approved to
locate its middle school. Despite considerable community opposition, the Board
of Education on Thursday voted 5-4 to approve relocating the middle grades of
Laboratory Charter School to the former Medical College of Pennsylvania campus
in East Falls. The opposition was centered around concerns that a charter could
undermine hard-won progress at the local neighborhood elementary school, Thomas
Mifflin, as well as issues with transportation and traffic. They also said
Lab’s administration had not made sufficient effort to conduct outreach in the
community. The deciding vote in favor was cast by Board President Joyce
Wilkerson, a 30-year resident of East Falls who said she is a strong supporter
of Mifflin, but had been swayed by changes in the application since Lab applied
a year ago to move the entire K-8 school to the East Falls site. Last April,
the Board postponed Lab’s application indefinitely,
primarily due to the community opposition. But this
year was different.
Board starts closure process for two Universal charters,
calls for more stimulus funding
It grants three other charters five-year
renewals
The notebook by Bill
Hangley Jr. April 30 — 10:41 pm, 2020
The Philadelphia Board of Education voted
Thursday to start the closure process for two charter schools, while approving
renewals for three more. At its monthly action meeting, held virtually using
Zoom and broadcast live over the Internet and public access television, the
board agreed to send “notices of non-renewal” to two West Philadelphia schools
run by Universal Companies, Bluford and Daroff. That begins a potentially
lengthy closure process that could last years. Both
schools have long records of poor academic performance, as well as financial and
administrative problems. The board also voted to grant five-year renewals to
three other charter schools: Northwood Academy in
Frankford, Imhotep Institute in
Germantown, and the People for People Charter School in
Fairmount. Together, the three renewed schools serve about 1,900 students. The
board did not offer an estimate of the cost of the renewals. Lisa Haver of the
Alliance for Philadelphia Public Schools (APPS) testified that her group
estimates that the likely cost would be in the neighborhood of $200 million
over the next five years.
Classes in shifts? Philly schools planning for a fall of
‘challenging circumstances’ due to coronavirus.
Inquirer by Kristen A. Graham, Updated: April
30, 2020- 11:41 AM
Even as they gear up for the start of the
first day of new instruction since mid-March, Philadelphia School District
officials have an eye on what next school year will look like, Superintendent
William R. Hite Jr. said Thursday. Because of COVID-19, children may be brought
to school in shifts, and could be required to wear
masks, he said. Buses could need to make two or
three runs and rules for social distancing on SEPTA, which thousands of
students rely on to get to Philadelphia schools, will need to be considered.
Lunches and recesses will also likely look different. “All of that is going to
be informed by where we are in terms of the requirements based on social
distancing,” Hite said during a call with reporters. “Do we stay in the current
state in terms of delivering digital content, or do we try to come back and
work through what will be some very challenging circumstances?”
What will school look like in September?
Unions are going to want a say in when it is
safe to reopen schools and under what conditions. And Hite also speaks to the
issue of grading.
The notebook by Dale
Mezzacappa April 30 — 10:38 pm, 2020
When and if school buildings will open in the
fall, what will education look like?
Will students go to schools on alternate
days? Will schools need to buy plastic shields for desks? Will buses do double
or triple shifts so they can carry fewer students? Will there be staggered
schedules? Will schools need to install more hand-washing stations? Will
teachers and students have to wear masks? Who will pay for all this? What about
recess? Lunch? Sports? Will it be safe? Superintendent William Hite said
Thursday that he has a group from the District working with the city, health
and transportation officials in an effort to figure out answers to questions
like these. The working groups “are looking at all the contingencies,” he said
during a conference call with reporters. Hite said that few things are certain
now, except he has pretty much written off any chance that there will be
face-to-face summer school. “Virtual is more of the likely option given where
we are,” he said. But something will be necessary for “vulnerable” populations,
including those with special needs and high school seniors who need more
credits to graduate.
Head of tiny Riverview School District focuses on keeping
kids educated during COVID-19 crisis
Steering our schools: One in a series of
talks with local superintendents
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE Got a news tip?
412-263-1601 localnews@post-gazette.com
APR 30, 2020 3:15 PM
Margaret “Peggy” DiNinno, 59, grew up in
Monroeville and oversees the tiny Riverview School District, which has about
1,000 students, draws kids from Verona and Oakmont and covers about 1.5 square
miles. There are two elementary schools and a junior-senior high school. Ms.
DiNinno, a cheerleader as a teen for Gateway School District, married her
football-player husband, who was Gateway’s center, and is now a cheerleader for
her students, faculty and staff at Riverview. She has four adult children with
occupations including opera, actuarial science, business and physical therapy.
Ms. DiNinno can still sing Gateway’s alma mater.
North East community caravan honors high school seniors
GoErie By Jack
Hanrahan @etnhanrahan Posted
Apr 30, 2020 at 7:47 PMUpdated at 4:59 AM
North East High School seniors were visited
by a caravan of teachers, buses and firetrucks to celebrate their graduation. The
North East School District celebrated its class of 2020 with a traveling
caravan on Thursday. “We have 60 staff members from the North East School
District, led by 14 buses, to deliver signs and caps and gowns to all the
graduates of 2020,” said William Renne, North East High School principal. Members
of the Crescent and Fuller hose companies, North East Police, Erie County
Sheriff’s Department and school buses led the caravan, which split into groups
to visit the homes of graduating seniors in the borough and township. The High
School is graduating 115 seniors this year who are missing out on traditional
year-end events because of a statewide school shutdown due to the COVID-19
pandemic.
Area high schools shine in U.S. News & World Report
rankings
Bucks County Courier Times By Chris English @CourierEnglish Posted
Apr 30, 2020 at 6:01 AM
Central Bucks East finished highest among
local high schools at No. 17 in the state rankings. Bucks and Eastern
Montgomery County high schools are again well represented in the 2020 U.S. News
& World Report rankings of the best high
schools in Pennsylvania. All three Central
Bucks high schools were in the top 60, and both Council Rock high schools made
the top 110. A total of 17 area high schools made the top 200. Central Bucks
High School East was the highest finisher among local high schools at No. 17,
followed by Lower Moreland (21), New Hope-Solebury (22), Central Bucks West
(32), Jenkintown Middle/High School (43), Abington (48), North Penn (52),
Central Bucks South (56), Council Rock North (57), Quakertown Community (63),
Palisades (73), Souderton (77), Council Rock South (107), Pennsbury (128),
Neshaminy (131), Upper Moreland (174) and Pennridge (191). The publication used
test scores, college readiness, graduation rate and several other factors in
evaluating 24,000 high schools across the country. In Pennsylvania, 671 high
schools made the rankings.
New CBO Projections Suggest Even Bigger State Shortfalls
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities by Michael
Leachman, Senior Director of State Fiscal Research APRIL 29, 2020 AT 7:00 AM
State budget shortfalls from COVID-19’s
economic fallout could total $650 billion over three years, we estimate based
on new economic projections from
the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and updated projections from
Goldman Sachs. The new figures — significantly higher than estimates we
recently issued based on economic projections of a month ago — increase the
urgency that policymakers enact additional federal fiscal relief and continue
it as long as economic conditions warrant. CBO now projects that unemployment
will average 15 percent for the next six months and then fall only slowly. It
will still be 9.5 percent — just short of its 10 percent peak in the Great
Recession — at the end of 2021. These CBO estimates take into account the
federal aid already enacted for businesses, individuals, and state and local
governments.
Congrats to the WHYY crew listed as finalist in the 2019
Education Writers Association Awards
Don’t Eat the Marshmallow: Students From a ‘No Excuses’
Charter Grow up to Tell the Tale
Best Audio Storytelling (Larger Newsrooms)
- WHYY
- Avi
Wolfman-Arent, reporter
- Kevin
McCorry, editor
- Charlie
Kaier, sound mixer
About the Entry: Avi
Wolfman-Arent talked to young adults in KIPP Philadelphia’s inaugural class to
explore the long-term impact of the school on their lives, how young
adults interpret their own middle school journeys and how middle-school
experiences resonate many years after it ends.
High School Seniors Are Making Yearbooks on Instagram
The class of 2020 has given up prom,
graduation and other rites, but they’re sharing memories and celebrating each
other’s achievements online.
New York Times By Taylor
Lorenz April 30, 2020
As high school seniors across the country
mourn the loss of year-end rituals like dressing for prom and
walking across the stage at graduation, at least one tradition is alive and
well: yearbook signing, though not with a pen. Hundreds of students have
created yearbook accounts on Instagram to celebrate their classmates’
achievements and share memories and inside jokes. The pages are assembled from
student submissions sent to the account administrators by direct message:
portraits, post-graduation plans, quotes. Classmates comment on each post as a
kind of signature. Matt Beiger, 18, a senior at Dunwoody High School in
Dunwoody, Ga., created a yearbook account for his high school a
couple weeks ago with his fellow student government members. So far, they’ve
featured over 130 students on the account — about a third of their class.
Betsy DeVos finds new pot of cash to push education
agenda: federal covid-19 relief money
Washington Post By Valerie Strauss April
30, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. EDT
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has found a
new pot of cash with which to pursue her school “choice” agenda: money from the
$2 trillion coronavirus relief
package Congress passed to boost the economy as it deals with the pandemic. DeVos,
who has made it her top priority as education secretary to find alternatives to
traditional public school districts, announced this week that she is starting a
competition for states to apply for “rethinking” education grants. “The current
disruption to the normal model is reaffirming something I have said for years:
we must rethink education to better match the realities of the 21st century,”
she said in the announcement. “This is the time for local education leaders to
unleash their creativity and ingenuity, and I’m looking forward to seeing what
they do to provide education freedom and economic opportunity for America’s
students.” The Michigan billionaire has in the past been clear about her views
of traditional public schools, referring to them as “a monopoly” and a “dead
end.” She has advocated for decades for the expansion of charter schools —
which are publicly funded but privately operated — as well as for voucher and
similar programs that use taxpayer money for private and religious school education.
She is also an enthusiast of virtual learning, and has supported online cyber
charters, despite research showing that many enrolled students have poor
educational outcomes.
What’s the first Sunday in May without the city’s annual
Blue Cross Broad Street Run? | Jenice Armstrong
Inquirer by Jenice
Armstrong | @JeniceArmstrong | jarmstrong@inquirer.com Updated: April
30, 2020 - 3:06 PM
Next to Christmas, the first Sunday in May is
my favorite day.
I get up before dawn to board an over-packed
SEPTA train heading to the Broad and Olney stop. After arriving, I and about
40,000 other runners head to assigned waiting areas, where we stretch, hydrate,
and listen for the sound of the horn signaling that it’s our group’s turn to
make its way to the starting line. Then, as the theme song to Rocky blares,
we take off, whooping and tossing aside old sweatshirts as we head for the
finish line 10 miles away at the Navy Yard. A handful of diehards have run the
Blue Cross Broad Street Run every year since it started in 1980 with 1,500
participants. It’s addictive like that. But come Sunday, for the first time in
40 years, the Broad Street Run will not take place on its
usual day because of the coronavirus pandemic.
If you previously registered for this live event at the Capitol
please register for the virtual event.
PSBA Virtual
Advocacy Day 2020 MAY 11, 2020 • 9:00
AM - 4:30 PM
Now
more than ever before – Make your voice heard!
Join
us virtually to support public education!
All
public school leaders are invited to join us for our first ever Virtual
Advocacy Day on Monday, May 11, 2020 via Zoom. We need all of you to
help strengthen our advocacy impact. The day will center around reaching out to
your legislators to discuss the steps you have taken to deal with the pandemic
crisis and the steps legislators can take to provide schools the flexibility
and creativity needed to weather the storm. Mandate relief, budgeting
flexibility, charter funding reform and other legislative changes need to be
considered to give school district flexibility.
Info
and Registration: https://www.psba.org/event/advocacy-day-2020/
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!
Network for Public Education 2020 Conference in Philly Rescheduled
to November 21-22
NPE Website March 10, 2020 7:10 pm
We so wanted to see you in March, but we need
to wait until November!
Our conference will now take place on November
21 and 22 at the same location in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Please
read the important information below.
Registration: We will be rolling over our
registration information, so there is no reason to register again. You will
be automatically registered for the November dates. If you cannot attend in
November, we ask that you consider donating your registration to absorb some of
the costs associated with rescheduling the conference. If you feel you cannot
make such a donation, please contact: dcimarusti@networkforpubliceducation.org.
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