Wednesday, June 24, 2020

PA Ed Policy Roundup for June 24, 2020: Letter: Underfunding urban schools is a form of racism


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PA Ed Policy Roundup for June 24, 2020
Letter: Underfunding urban schools is a form of racism


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Three tweets yesterday….
@HanoverPublic board of school directors becomes the 263rd locally elected Pennsylvania school board to adopt a resolution calling for charter school funding reform. Has your district?

#DanvilleAreaSD board of school directors becomes the 264th locally elected Pennsylvania school board to adopt a resolution calling for charter school funding reform. Has your district?

@SouthEastern_SD board of school directors becomes the 265th locally elected Pennsylvania school board submitting a resolution calling for charter school funding reform. Has your district?

261 Pennsylvania School Boards Adopt Resolutions for Charter Funding Reform
Pennsylvania School Boards Association Press Release June 19, 2020
Mechanicsburg, PA (June 19, 2020) – Last year, Pennsylvania school districts spent over $2 billion in taxpayer money on mandatory payments to brick-and-mortar and cyber charter schools. The school boards from over 261 school districts across Pennsylvania have now adopted resolutions calling for the General Assembly to enact significant charter funding reform. This represents more than half of all school districts in the Commonwealth. The current charter school funding formula was established in 1997 under the state's Charter School Law and has not been changed in the 23 years since it was first created. Because the tuition rate calculations are based on the school district’s expenses, they create wide discrepancies in the amount of tuition paid by different districts for the same charter school education and result in drastic overpayments to charter schools. These discrepancies in tuition rates for regular education students can vary by almost $13,000 per student and by $39,000 for special education students.
The costs of charter schools for school districts continue to grow significantly each year with charter tuition paid by school districts up 185% over the last 10 years. On a statewide basis are the most identified source of pressure on school district budgets. The latest data from the PA Department of Education (PDE) shows that in 2018-19, total charter school tuition payments (cyber and brick-and-mortar) were more than $2.0 billion, with $606 million of that total paid by districts for tuition to cyber charter schools.

“On behalf of all public schools across the Commonwealth, I earnestly request the public to contact their local senators and representatives to express their grave concern of the flawed cyber charter school funding model and the financial damage it is wreaking upon are public schools. Cyber charter School overpayment has always been a well growing problem before the COVID-19 crisis, now it is an issue Pennsylvania cannot afford to overlook for one more year.”
Why attention to huge cyber charter payouts?
Wyoming County Press Examiner Letter By MATTHEW RAKAUSKAS Jun 24, 2020
Rakauskas is superintendent of Lackawanna Trail School District.
Due to the economic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pennsylvania’s public school districts face declining local revenue collection that is projected to range from $850 million to more than $1 billion for 2020-21. At the same time, Pennsylvania cyber charter schools are entitled to over $70 million in federal education stimulus funds this fiscal year to help them weather the financial crisis when they have not experienced any revenue cuts.
Pennsylvania’s flawed charter school funding formula already results in overpayments to charter schools and in a time when school districts are facing significant financial issues as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, this concerning waste of taxpayer money should not be allowed to continue. These valuable resources should be utilized to keep public school districts running rather than overfunding cyber charter schools that are receiving additional financial gains by other means.

Oberlander Becomes First Woman to Ascend to House Republican Whip Position
Explore Clarion Posted by Aly Delp Tuesday, June 23, 2020 @ 12:06 AM
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Rep. Donna Oberlander (R-Clarion/Armstrong/Forest) was chosen on Monday to become the first woman to serve as Republican Caucus whip during leadership elections held at the state Capitol in Harrisburg. Oberlander succeeds Rep. Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin), who was selected as majority leader, and Majority Leader Bryan Cutler (R-Lancaster), who became Speaker of the House. “I’m honored and humbled that my colleagues have chosen me to serve as their majority whip,” said Oberlander, who also becomes the first state representative from the 63rd District to ascend to the position, which is considered the third highest in the House Republican Caucus. “I will continue to represent the members at the leadership table and ensure that their concerns from all over the Commonwealth are listened to. We have a unified leadership team, which is imperative during this critical time in our state, as we work toward a strong recovery from the COVID-19 crisis.” As majority whip, she will be responsible for tracking House votes and informing her other 109 Republican colleagues on upcoming issues and legislation. This is Oberlander’s third role in House Republican leadership. She was elected as caucus secretary in 2014 and majority Policy Committee chairman in 2018, a position she has most recently held.

Meet Speaker Cutler: A look at the Lancaster County leader's approach to his powerful role in the Pa. House
Lancaster Online by SAM JANESCH AND GILLIAN MCGOLDRICK | Staff writers June 24, 2020
Tuesday was back-to-school day for Bryan Cutler.
After being unanimously elected to the highest-profile post in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Monday, the Peach Bottom Republican was spending his morning in “speaker school,” meeting with the chamber’s parliamentarian to read through a binder of rules and past precedents on how to run the chamber. “It's more of an umpire,” Cutler said of his new job wielding the speaker’s gavel to control the floor debate -- instead of participating as majority leader. “I think I'll miss the debating, because that was something that I did enjoy. In terms of the legislative process, I'll get to view that from a different perspective now.” Cutler’s election comes just as legislators are wrapping up in Harrisburg. Legislators typically would not return in the fall to pass major legislation just before an election with their names on the ballots, but 2020 is different. The pandemic has delayed important budget decisions, and Cutler said Tuesday in his first official interview since becoming speaker that he believes there will be time for significant policy discussions left in his shortened term.

Pottstown Mercury Letter by John Barnett, Chester Springs June 23, 2020
On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania House Education Committee voted on several resolutions regarding people of color. One resolution honored Cheyney University, another the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, another established a “Historically Black Colleges Week.” The committee is good at recognizing worthy accomplishments. But it could have ended the systemic racism of our commonwealth’s funding of public schools. If you compare school districts in Pennsylvania of similar wealth levels, the pattern is unmistakable. Whiter school districts receive more money from the Pennsylvania Basic Education budget per student than the less white districts.
This year, Purchase Line School District, Indiana County, received over $10,000 per student from State Basic Education Funding. Pottstown School District, Montgomery County, received less than $4,000 per student. Both districts have similar wealth levels. The Purchase Line student population is 98% white. The Pottstown student population is 34% white. This is one of many examples. The Pennsylvania House Education Committee could have enacted a bill that it has had in its possession many months. This bill would have eliminated Pennsylvania’s shameful and unintelligent method of distributing state education money. HR 961 calls for the full implementation of PA Act 35 of 2016, distributing state education funds through a student-weighted fair funding formula. Currently only 10% of the funds are distributed through the formula.
I urge everyone in the commonwealth to tell their state representative that now is the time for a rational student-weighted Fair Funding Formula. Demand that the House Education Committee move forward on HR 961.

“Before the coronavirus, Black and Latino children were already less likely to have access to high-quality preschool. School districts with higher populations of students of color often have less money than majority white districts. And Black male students experience disproportionate suspension. In the majority Black Philadelphia schools, Black students are 3.1 times more likely than white students to be suspended, according to a Pro Publica analysis. And in the majority white Council Rock School District in Bucks County, Black students are 4.3 times as likely as white students to be suspended, the same Pro Publica analysis concluded.”
Top Obama official says it’s up to Congress to address racial disparities in public education exposed by COVID pandemic
PA Capital Star By Allison Winter June 23, 2020
WASHINGTON — The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated racial inequities in education, a disparity that Congress needs to help fix, the former education chief under President Barack Obama told a congressional panel Monday. “Our education system is fraught with inequities that existed before COVID-19,” John King Jr., who served as Secretary of Education in 2016-2017, told lawmakers on the House Education and Labor Committee. He is president and CEO of The Education Trust, a nonprofit organization that focuses on opportunity and achievement gaps in education. During school closures, researchers found that Black, Latino and Native American students were disproportionately less likely to have access to devices and home internet service and parents who were able to telework. Researchers estimated that students could lose seven months of learning on average during the pandemic. But they found Black students may fall behind by more than 10 months, and Hispanic students by nine months, according to an analysis by research firm McKinsey & Co.

“Each of you are playing a critical role in changing the narrative in Philadelphia, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and in the nation. A racist reality that keeps our children from being highly literate. A racist reality where 96% of Pennsylvania’s teachers are white. A racist reality where almost half of Philadelphia’s Black boys don’t graduate from high school within four years. A racist reality where only eight out of every 100 of our city’s Black male high school graduates goes on to graduate from a four year college.
Each one of you can help change this racist reality.”
AN OPEN LETTER TO TEACHERS WHO BEGAN TEACHING DURING THE AMERICAN SPRING
7th Ward Blog BY SHARIF EL-MEKKI JUNE 23, 2020
Dear Freedom School Literacy Team 2020,
Across the nation, we started the summer of 2020, lighting up the streets with rage.
We rage for George Floyd’s senseless strangulation.
We rage for Ahmaud Arbery, who was hunted down.
We rage for Eric Garner, who was suffocated.
We rage for Walter Scott, who was shot five times in the back.
We rage for Michael Brown, who was shot six times in the back.
We rage for Philando Castile, who was gunned down for legally carrying a gun.
We rage for Jamar Clark, who was shot in the head while handcuffed.
We rage for Freddie Gray, who was handcuffed and shackled screaming in pain. 
We rage for Tamir Rice, who was shot dead after playing in the park with his sister.  
We rage for Stephon Clark, who was shot for being in his grandmother’s backyard.
We rage for Botham Jean, Aiyana Jones and Breonna Taylor, all three shot dead for being Black in their own home.
We rage for Tony McDade, who reminds us that Black Lives Matter applies to all Black people in our communities. 
We rage against state-sanctioned brutal murders of Black men and women whose families and friends will never ever get to see them, hold them and love on them.  

Educating children with disabilities during COVID-19: 5 things to know
The rights of students with disabilities stemming from the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) largely remain intact.
The  notebook Commentary by Margie Wakelin June 23 — 4:36 pm, 2020
This column was written for the Notebook’s May print edition. With the continuation of online education this summer and possibly in the fall as well (potentially as part of staggered schedules), the impact on special education students and their families continues. In this commentary, the Education Law Center outlines the rights that caregivers have when advocating for their children.
Over the last few months, education has been turned upside down. Classes have been cancelled and schedules disrupted. Classmates have been minimized to images on a screen. Children with disabilities, who are arguably the most dependent on consistent routines and have the least ability to access remote learning, have been uniquely harmed by these changes. At the Education Law Center (ELC), we have spoken frequently with families who are worried that the losses their children are experiencing will never be recovered. We are advocating to ensure that their stories and concerns inform strategic decisions of local, state, and federal leaders. For example, a mother of three children with disabilities contacted ELC during the first week that schools were closed in Philadelphia. She explained that she worked two jobs and was not able to pick up work for her children before schools closed. She did not have any computer or internet in her home, so she struggled to learn about educational opportunities at all. She communicates only in Spanish, and she was not getting a response from her children’s teachers about what additional support was available for her children with disabilities. After just five days, she was already observing regression in her children’s social and communication skills. She asked, “What can I do? What hope do I have to stop this slide from happening?” As a parent of children with disabilities, there is a lot that she can do.

Philly students secure historical marker commemorating 1967 school walkout notorious for Rizzo brutality
WHYY By Sojourner Ahebee June 24, 2020
Though Alison Fortenberry was born in 2003, she wants you to remember 1967.
“[The 1967 student walkout] is not really something that’s really known in Philadelphia for this generation,” she said. “If we don’t have something tangible there, it’s just going to be another hidden part of Philadelphia’s history.” Fortenberry is one of five Julia R. Masterman high school students who recently won approval from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission to honor the 1967 Black student walkout with a state marker. During the walkout, over 3,000 Philadelphia students protested racial injustice within the education system. In the summer of 2019, Fortenberry was joined by fellow classmates Tatiana Bennett, Nia Weeks, Taryn Flaherty, and Aden Gonzales as they embarked on a three-month long research journey to learn more about the 1967 demonstration. Their ultimate goal was to prove the statewide and national significance of the event, which the historical commission requires of applicants seeking a state marker. Their project culminated in a 104-page document, which includes letters of endorsement from historians, oral history interviews with key participants, and an essay on the lasting impact the event had in the quest for racial justice.

PPS police officers defend their jobs before school board
ANDREW GOLDSTEIN Pittsburgh Post-Gazette agoldstein@post-gazette.com JUN 23, 2020
Numerous Pittsburgh Public Schools police officers defended their jobs in written testimony that was read before the school board Tuesday amid calls to remove law enforcement from the district. The officers’ statements were read aloud during the second day of a public hearing in which board members heard comments from nearly 250 people, many on the topic of whether police should be removed from city schools. Officers told the board about times they caught students trying to bring weapons and drugs into schools, provided first aid, and stopped armed adults attempting to intrude. They also spoke about the positive relationships they have built with students over the years.

Long-time elementary teacher prepares for seeing students in person again
From hand-washing schedules to spare masks, Mattie Davis has started getting ready for an unusual back-to-school season. 
The notebook by Dale Mezzacappa June 23 — 2:18 pm, 2020
Since mid-April, Notebook Contributing Editor Dale Mezzacappa has spoken to 1st-grade teacher Mattie Davis nearly every day. She would call faithfully at 1 p.m. to recount her experiences of the prior day as she worked to keep in touch with families and make sure her children progressed. The first article was part of a project with WHYY  to highlight how teachers were adjusting to the new reality of online learning. The second piece appeared in the Notebook’s spring print edition on educating during a pandemic. This story focuses on Davis’ plans and hopes for the future.
Mattie Davis has already figured out how long it will take her class of 23 or 24 6-year-olds to wash their hands before lunch. She has three faucets in the long sink in her spacious 1st-grade classroom at William Dick Elementary School, 25th and Diamond Streets, and she has a plan to make it quick and orderly. It will take four, maybe five minutes, she said.
A week ago, she bought herself a face shield. She shopped on Amazon to find a good one. It is her job and privilege to teach her students to read, she said, “and when it comes to them seeing you, when you’re having a small group and you’re having phonemic awareness activities, they need to see how you’re forming your mouth when you’re doing blends, and digraphs, and those types of things.” A regular mask would cover her mouth, making those observations impossible.
She also bought face masks for her children “as a precaution, because what’s going to happen when we get back to school, and little so-and-so doesn’t have a mask, or” – and here she does her best imitation of a tiny child peering up at her – “Miss Davis, at recess I lost my mask!”

“I believe that parents should have the right to choose between attending traditional public school – and it’s interesting how people always talk about charters as if they’re not public schools, but they are – they should have the right to choose between public schools and charter schools,” said Birks Tuesday. “But I have no preference. I think parents should have the opportunity to choose what is the best learning experience for their children.” Birks said she formerly sat on a charter school board on behalf of Hartford Public Schools and was able to leverage that into a partnership as a “sister school” for the district. She does not yet know if the same could be done here.”
Chester Upland welcomes new superintendent
Delco Times by Alex Rose June 24, 2020
CHESTER — Dr. Carol D. Birks officially took up her position as the new superintendent of the Chester Upland School District Tuesday following her appointment by Receiver Dr. Juan Baughn on Monday. “I am extremely grateful, humbled and honored to have been selected to serve as superintendent for Chester Upland School District,” said Birks. “I look forward to working closely with Receiver Baughn, board members, students, families, staff, faculty, and administration to continue to move Chester Upland School District on a path of continuous improvement.” Birks replaces Baughn, who had served as superintendent since January 2017. Baughn, who recently replaced former CUSD Superintendent Gregory Thornton as receiver, said Birks will receive $215,000 per year in compensation under the four-year contract. Birks, who holds a bachelor’s degree from Hampton University, master’s degrees from the University of Bridgeport and Columbia University Teachers College, and a doctoral degree from Columbia University Teachers College, said that she wants to begin her tenure with a comprehensive “Entry Plan” that includes listening and learning tours, virtual meetings and focus groups.

Parent-circulated petition seeks ‘meaningful and systemic change’ to address racism, bias in SCASD
Centre Daily Times BY BRET PALLOTTO JUNE 23, 2020 03:51 PM
The State College Area School District has made racial inequities and disparities a focus the past few years, but some parents are pushing for “meaningful and systemic change” sparked by national and local events. Parents Cynthia Young and Mandy Vactor, co-chairs of the district’s Race and Marginalized Populations Committee, crafted in the past week an online petition addressed to SCASD Superintendent Bob O’Donnell and the district’s school board. The petition included several requests based on “data, personal experience, community complaints” and conversations over the past two years with SCASD’s Equity and Inclusivity Director Seria Chatters, Young and Vactor wrote.

Under pressure, Lancaster school board considers stripping Edward Hand Middle School of its name before start of school year
Lancaster Online by ALEX GELI | Staff Writer June 24, 2020
A growing group of residents is urging School District of Lancaster to change the name of Edward Hand Middle School because of its namesake’s participation in slavery. In response, the Lancaster school board has asked Superintendent Damaris Rau to develop a plan by mid-July to bring together students, parents, employees and community members together to brainstorm a new name for the 96-year-old school. The call for action comes as schools and businesses nationwide face intense pressure to reevaluate their racially offensive names following the death of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests. “Why should we send Black and brown kids to schools like this ever again if we know we shouldn’t be doing this?” said Kearasten Jordan, a 2007 Hand graduate and author of an online petition to change the school’s name. “Why another year? There is no reason.” State data shows more than 90% of Hand's student body is Black or Hispanic.  More than 80 individuals have signed the petition. Jordan — who is co-director of Safehouse Lancaster, which provides resources to activists of color working to eliminate racism — said she wrote the petition after learning more about Hand’s history. Hand, a Revolutionary War general, owned slaves at Rock Ford, his home-turned-museum in Lancaster. A Black man who was enslaved escaped from the 33-acre property shortly before Hand’s death in 1802.

Highlands School Board approves $48.5M budget with no tax increase
Trib Live by BRIAN C. RITTMEYER   | Tuesday, June 23, 2020 2:49 p.m.
Highlands School Board has approved a $48.5 million budget for the 2020-21 school year that leaves the district’s property tax rate unchanged. The district’s property tax rate remains 24.88 mills. The annual school tax bill on a home assessed at $100,000 would stay at $2,488. Administrators whittled down the budget as they worked on it this spring. It had been as high as about $49 million in an earlier proposal and stood at $48.7 million last week.

In one deranged press release, Metcalfe gets everything wrong about mask-wearing | Wednesday Morning Coffee
PA Capital Star By  John L. Micek June 24, 2020
Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers.
We thought long and hard about calling your attention to the latest histrionics by state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Butler. Initially, we were going to err on the side of ignoring the western Pa. lawmaker for much the same reason that you never feed a raccoon — they just keep coming back for more. But the deranged jeremiad that Metcalfe delivered at the start of Tuesday’s session of the House Environmental Resources & Energy Committee is an object lesson in the way the fight over mask-wearing has been weaponized by some on the right, even as COViD-19 infections and deaths continue to rise nationwide.

Spring Grove school official: Sometimes you have to say 'F you' to the government
Lindsay C VanAsdalan, York Dispatch Published 1:56 p.m. ET June 23, 2020 | Updated 2:38 p.m. ET June 23, 2020
A vocal group of Spring Grove Area residents on Monday night emphatically opposed any school reopening plan that requires district students and staff to wear masks. And at least two school board members backed their demands, with one calling the coronavirus pandemic and efforts to mitigate it "a crock of s—." At a Monday board meeting, several residents argued that no one is afraid of the virus and cited a petition with 400 signatures in support of their plan for a regular reopening of the district's schools that doesn't follow state and federal health guidelines. Health experts have said masks are a key component to stemming the spread of the coronavirus. But the issue has become increasingly political nationally.  The petition's signers did not want students or faculty wearing masks when school resumed and did not want children to be forced into a “rushed” COVID-19 vaccine in order to attend. “If you look at the statistics, there’s nothing concrete that exists.” said resident Debbie Harris, citing the discrepancies between deaths reported to the coroner and the state and the numbers changing week to week.

55 new COVID-19 cases in York County mark highest increase to date
Logan Hullinger, York Dispatch Published 11:58 a.m. ET June 22, 2020 | Updated 3:45 p.m. ET June 22, 2020
York County had 55 new cases of COVID-19 as of noon Monday, the largest single-day increase the county has seen since the state Department of Health began reporting data in March.. The unusually high single-day increase pushed the total to 1,351. The closest York County has come to such an increase was April 17, when 50 additional cases were reported. The large increase came as the state reported 82,186 cases since the outbreak began, an increase of 456 over the day prior. There were three additional deaths statewide linked to the virus. The death toll now stands at 6,426. There was one new death in York County, pushing the death toll at 36. There have been 585,662 patients in the state who have tested negative for COVID-19, 19,782 of whom reside in York County.

Districts face accusations of racists posts by an educator and a board member
The events have raised questions about the First Amendment issues at play.
WITF by Julia Agos JUNE 23, 2020 | 6:38 PM
(Harrisburg) — At least two midstate school districts are facing criticism over comments they made on social media concerning recent protests and civil unrest. A Conrad Weiser School board member in Berks County was asked to resign after he was accused of posting racist comments on his Facebook page, while a Northeastern elementary principle in York County could lose his job after he shared a Facebook video titled’ “Black Lives Matter is a leftist Lie.” The events have raised questions about the First Amendment issues at play. Michael Forman, Director of the Civil Rights Appellate Clinic at Penn State Law, said courts will use the Pickering test to determine the outcome of the cases. The Pickering test refers to Pickering v. Board of Education, a 1968 Supreme Court case involving a science teacher who wrote a letter to a newspaper criticizing the school board’s distribution of funds.


PSBA Fall Virtual Advocacy Day: OCT 8, 2020 • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sign up now for PSBA’s Virtual Advocacy Day this fall!
All public school leaders are invited to join us for our fall Virtual Advocacy Day on Thursday, October 8, 2020, via Zoom. We need all of you to help strengthen our advocacy impact. The day will center around contacting legislators to discuss critical issues affecting public education. Registrants will receive the meeting invitation with a link to our fall Virtual Advocacy Day website that contains talking points, a link to locate contact information for your legislator and additional information to help you have a successful day.
Cost: As a membership benefit, there is no cost to register.
Registration: School directors can register online now by logging in to myPSBA. If you have questions about Virtual Advocacy Day, or need additional information, contact Jamie.Zuvich@psba.org.

Apply Now for EPLC's 2020-2021 PA Education Policy Fellowship Program!
Applications are available now for the 2020-2021 Education Policy Fellowship Program
The Education Policy Fellowship Program is sponsored in Pennsylvania by The Education Policy and Leadership Center (EPLC).  The 2020-2021 Program will be conducted in briefer, more frequent, and mostly online sessions, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The content will be substantially the same as the traditional Fellowship Program, with some changes necessitated by the new format and a desire to reduce costs to sponsors in these uncertain fiscal times.
The commitment of EPLC remains the same. The Fellowship Program will continue to be Pennsylvania's premier education policy leadership program for education, community, policy and advocacy leaders! The Fellowship Program begins with two 3-hour virtual sessions on September 17-18, and the Program ends with a graduation event in June 2021.
The application may be copied from the EPLC web site, but it must be submitted by mail or scanned and e-mailed, with the necessary signatures of applicant and sponsor.
If you would like to discuss any aspect of the Fellowship Program and its requirements, please contact EPLC Executive Director Ron Cowell at 412-298-4796 or COWELL@EPLC.ORG

Adopt the 2020 PSBA resolution for charter school funding reform
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.

Over 260 PA school boards adopt charter reform resolutions
Charter school funding reform continues to be a concern as over 260 school boards across the state have adopted a resolution calling for legislators to enact significant reforms to the Charter School Law to provide funding relief and ensure all schools are held to the same quality and ethics standards. Now more than ever, there is a growing momentum from school officials across the state to call for charter school funding reform. Legislators are hearing loud and clear that school districts need relief from the unfair funding system that results in school districts overpaying millions of dollars to charter schools.

Know Your Facts on Funding and Charter Performance. Then Call for Charter Change!
PSBA Charter Change Website:

The Network for Public Education Action Conference has been rescheduled to April 24-25, 2021 at the Philadelphia Doubletree Hotel


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