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PA Ed Policy Roundup for September 11, 2020
Taxpayers in
Senate Ed Committee Member Robert Tomlinson’s school districts paid over $10.5 million
in 2018-2019 cyber charter tuition.
Why are cyber
charter tuition rates the same as brick and mortar tuition?
Taxpayers in Senate Ed Committee Member Robert Tomlinson’s school
districts paid over $10.5 million in 2018-2019 cyber charter tuition. Statewide, PA taxpayers paid over $600 million for cyber charter tuition
in 2018-2019.
|
Bensalem Township SD |
$2,013,997.04 |
|
Bristol Borough SD |
$769,731.33 |
|
Bristol Township SD |
$2,043,054.75 |
|
Centennial SD |
$802,946.20 |
|
Central Bucks SD |
$1,808,449.01 |
|
Council Rock SD |
$590,348.34 |
|
Neshaminy SD |
$2,506,694.97 |
|
|
$10,535,221.64 |
Data Source: PDE
via PSBA
Shortages and Inequities in the Philadelphia Public
School Teacher Workforce
Research for Action Brief by Jill C. Pierce, Anna
Shaw-Amoah and David Lapp AUGUST 2020
To facilitate student achievement, schools
need a strong, well-prepared teacher workforce. The COVID-19 pandemic and
amplified calls for racial justice have also increased the public’s recognition
of the crucial roles educators and education can play in children’s lives and in
society more broadly. Unfortunately, Philadelphia’s public schools faced
teacher shortages even before the start of the pandemic. Recruiting and
retaining highly qualified educators has long been a challenge in the city. This brief provides an overview of the status
of the teaching workforce in Philadelphia’s 320 district and charter public
schools. First, we discuss the extent of teacher shortages in Philadelphia. We
then examine racial and ethnic inequities in the city’s teacher supply and
distribution. In the third section, we outline known barriers to successful
teacher recruitment and retention in city schools. We conclude with
implications and recommendations for Philadelphia to recruit and retain a
qualified, more diverse teaching workforce.
https://www.researchforaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/perc-workforce-final-082420.pdf
Gov. Wolf pledges $15M to bridge digital divide among
Pennsylvania students
Trib Live by MEGAN
GUZA | Thursday,
September 10, 2020 4:54 p.m.
Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday committed $15
million in federal coronavirus aid money toward helping schools provide
adequate, reliable broadband internet access to students who might otherwise
struggle with remote learning. Wolf said the pandemic has forced schools to
“rethink and rework how to provide instruction to students who are learning
completely at home or in a hybrid model.” He said the funding will help fill in
digital gaps as districts navigate new waters. The money will fund a
variety of approaches, including $1.4 million for
public libraries to expand their internet access footprint and invest in more
Wi-Fi hotspots and $8 million for a datacasting initiative that would use TV
signals to deliver education content without Internet access. The money will
also go toward getting devices to facilitate datacasting, like antenna and
laptops. Another $2 million will help provide adaptive and assistive technology
– like tablet mounts, smart pens and other devices – to students who need it. The
pledge of $15 million comes two days after the state Senate passed a bill to
create a grant fund that would get broadband service to rural and under-served
areas of the state. “The covid-19 pandemic has brought into view what we in
rural Pennsylvania have known for some time – broadband is essential to
connectivity, education, safety and productivity,” said Sen. Wayne Langerholc
Jr., who represents parts of Bedford, Cambria and Clearfield counties and who
sponsored the bill.
What dueling veto override press releases tell you about
the Legislature’s priorities | Friday Morning Coffee
PA Capital Star By John L. Micek September
11, 2020
Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers.
If you thought this foreshortened holiday
week was going to end with a whimper instead of a bang, think again. On
Thursday, Republican leaders in the state House and Senate stuffed their
respective cannons full of veto override threats and fired them in the general
direction of Gov. Tom Wolf’s office. At issue is a House bill,
sponsored by Rep. Mike Reese, R-Westmoreland, that would give
school districts, and not the Democratic administration, the final say over
whether students can play sports and whether fans can be in the stands during
the pandemic. The Senate passed the previously approved House
bill by a vote of 39-11 on Wednesday.
As the Capital-Star’s Elizabeth Hardison reported, Democrats
who opposed the measure said it was unnecessary, given that school sports are
already underway statewide. They also said it did not do enough to shield
districts from legal liability if athletes and staff contract COVID-19.
House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff,
R-Centre, drew first blegh Thursday,
saying that he’ll bring up an override motion at the first opportunity.
‘You keep us going,’ Jill Biden tells NEPA educators
during town hall on COVID-19 and safely reopening schools
PA Capital Star By John L. Micek September
10, 2020
Janice Ciavarella is in her 12th year of
teaching language arts in the Crestwood public schools in Luzerne County. An
area native, she went away to college, came back, and now teaches students in
the same elementary school she attended in her youth. This week, though,
Ciavarella isn’t in the classroom. Like many Pennsylvania educators, she’s
teaching her lessons virtually. The Crestwood schools started the year online
on Tuesday. The district, which is home to more than 3,000 students, is
supposed to make a call in October on whether to switch to a fully in-person or
hybrid model. For Ciavarella, that day can’t come soon enough. “The transition
back to school has been challenging to say the least,” Ciavarella said
Thursday. “The technology has been the most overwhelming and frustrating
[thing]. We went through intensive summer training. We had to learn new
platforms. For families, having parents working from home, sharing devices, or
no devices at all. And the internet issues. I know some families are
struggling. We are trying to be as helpful as we can. I just want to be back in
the classroom. I want to see my kids … hopefully they want to see me too.” Miles
away, Jill Biden nodded in understanding.
State officials should disclose vital
district-by-district COVID-19 data on schools [editorial]
THE LNP | LANCASTERONLINE EDITORIAL BOARD September
11, 2020
THE ISSUE: LNP | LancasterOnline’s Alex
Geli reported Wednesday that
the Pennsylvania Department of Health will not provide the public with data on
COVID-19 cases by school district. “We cannot comment on specific cases or
clusters of cases,” Health Department spokesperson Nate Wardle said in an
email. Wardle said the Health and Education departments would work closely to
ensure that cases are identified and thoroughly investigated. “After public
health staff complete the thorough case investigation,” Wardle said, “they will
start contact tracing to ensure all those who came in contact, including the
school if applicable, and should be notified, are notified.”
To slightly paraphrase one commenter on LNP |
LancasterOnline, we’re six months into this pandemic and it still feels like
we’re flying blind. That’s so true. And so frustrating. Frustrating because
some of the blinders being forced upon us are unnecessary and dangerous to
public safety. There is some “fog of war” regarding COVID-19 that we must
accept. We don’t know when we’ll have a safe and effective vaccine. Or what all
of the long-term effects are for those who test positive for the disease. But
there are areas in which we unnecessarily create an artificial “fog of war” and
make our decision-making more challenging than it ought to be amid an ongoing
health crisis. “People need accurate information in order to make sound
decisions for their safety and their families’ safety.”
2 Northampton Area students contracted COVID-19,
superintendent says
By Kurt Bresswein | For lehighvalleylive.com Updated Sep
10, 2020; Posted Sep 10, 2020
Two students in the Northampton Area School District have
tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus illness,
Superintendent Joseph Kovalchik said Thursday. The district was notified
Thursday of the confirmed cases in the students at Northampton Area High School
and Northampton Area Middle School, Kovalchik announced in letters to the
schools' parents and guardians. In each case, the student last attended school
on Wednesday, Sept. 2. The letters do not indicate how the students are doing. At
both schools, the classrooms and other spaces used by the students were cleaned
and disinfected according to U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention guidelines, Kovalchik
said. Both buildings “will remain open at this time,” he wrote. Northampton
Area isn’t alone in facing what educators believe will be a when-not-if scenario for
coronavirus infections this school year. The
Hackettstown Board of Education on Sept. 3 shared a message on its Facebook
page from Superintendent David Mango confirming a case of
COVID-19 at the high school.
Hempfield high school student tests positive for covid-19
Trib Live by MEGAN TOMASIC | Thursday,
September 10, 2020 11:09 a.m.
A Hempfield Area High School student recently
tested positive for the coronavirus, the district announced. The student, who
was not identified, was last in school Sept. 1, according to a letter from
Superintendent Tammy Wolicki. The district was notified Tuesday of the positive
test results. District officials worked with the state Department of Health to
determine whether any students or staff had close contact with the infected
person, and those who had were notified Tuesday night. Wolicki told the
Tribune-Review a “few students” who came in close contact are quartaning. According
to Wolicki, exposure was minimal because students are seated 6 feet from each
other in classrooms. Close contact is defined as being within 6 feet of someone
for a period of 15 minutes or more. Safety measures, including social
distancing, face coverings and hand washing are in place across the district. Wolicki
did not note any potential school closures, adding she believes the case is
isolated. According to August guidance from
the state, schools do not have to close if one student or staff member tests
positive for covid-19. Areas where the infected person was located should be
cleaned, and district officials should work with the health department on
determining next steps. Schools would need to close for up to five days if
between two and four students or staffers tested positive. If a larger number
of people test positive at a specific school, the building would need to close
for 14 days.
https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/hempfield-high-school-student-tests-positive-for-covid-19/
First known COVID-19 case confirmed in a Centre County
school this fall
Centre Daily Times BY
MARLEY PARISH SEPTEMBER 10, 2020 04:12 PM
The first known COVID-19 case in a Centre
County school has been confirmed. A student in the Young Scholars of Central
Pennsylvania Charter School has contracted the coronavirus, CEO and Principal
Levent Kaya confirmed Thursday. The school, which is operating remotely this
week, was notified of the case Wednesday. “As soon as we were informed, we
notified our school community, leaders of the school around us and the district
of residence of the student who tested positive,” Kaya wrote in an email. “We
reached out to the Department of Health and provided information to help with
the contact tracing process.” Young Scholars families received an email
Wednesday about the positive test from Crystal Confer, the elementary assistant
principal. “If your child has been in the same classroom as this student, you
were sent a separate email informing you of that,” Confer wrote. “We will
continue to keep you updated if we are notified of any other cases.” Kaya said
staff and students who were in close contact with the student were notified and
asked to quarantine for 14 days.
COVID-19 case prompts 2-week shutdown in one York City
school building
Lindsay C VanAsdalan York
Dispatch September 10, 2020
A York City School District employee tested
positive for COVID-19, prompting a two-week shutdown of a school building,
officials confirmed Thursday evening. As a precaution, the employee's home
school building will be closed until Sept. 24, said district spokesperson
ShaiQuana Mitchell, in an email. Mitchell did not identify the building. "Since
90% of our district population receives instruction virtually at this time,
learning will continue virtually for our learners," she said. The district
initiated an online-only learning model through Oct. 30. Students with complex
needs such as English language or special education learners were able
to schedule in-person learning four days a week. All employees and
students who came into contact with the individual were notified directly, and
officials understand that the case has been contained to the employee's home
school building.
School mandate waiver bill introduced
POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 11,
2020 IN PSBA
NEWS
PSBA is pleased to report that Senator Langerholc,
chairman of the Senate Education Committee, has introduced legislation to
provide public schools flexibility and relief from costly and unnecessary
mandates. Senate Bill 1286 would
reinstitute the mandate waiver program similar to the program which operated
from 2000 to 2010. PSBA worked with Senator Langerholc to draft the proposal
and thanks him for his efforts to move this issue forward. Under
Senate Bill 1286, public schools may apply to the Pennsylvania Department of
Education (PDE) for a waiver of many state-imposed mandates. PDE can
approve a waiver if the school can show that its instructional program will
improve or the school will operate in a more effective, efficient, or
economical manner. Certain laws and regulations would not be
waivable, such as those relating to student safety, academic standards and
assessments, special education, protected handicapped students, gifted
education, student attendance, professional educator conduct
standards, among others. PSBA notes that public school
leaders fully supported including the temporary mandate waiver program as part
of the emergency COVID-19 legislation in Act 13 of 2020. However, the
waiver provisions in Act 13 are only available for the 2019-20 academic
year. Public schools need a broad, permanent solution that will continue
in future years.
https://www.psba.org/2020/09/school-mandate-waiver-bill-introduced/
Hite reviews opening week in Philly during pandemic, says
annual teacher transfers may be delayed
Chalkbeat Philly By Dale Mezzacappa Sep
10, 2020, 7:09pm EDT
Philadelphia Schools Superintendent William
Hite indicated Thursday that the annual practice of moving around teachers
based on actual enrollment rather than predictions will likely be delayed this
year until more solid attendance information is received from schools. Rethinking
the persistent but unpopular ritual, known to educators as “leveling,” is
another example of how this year’s school reopening is different from any
other. Hite said that despite early glitches — a server crash on the first day,
Zoom bombings in a few classrooms — the 2020 start of the school year “is going
as well as can be expected” under the circumstances. “This is messy, something
we have not experienced before,” Hite told reporters in his weekly press
availability. “Routines are changing dramatically for families and for
educators. Given all of that, individuals have been patient and flexible and
...I attribute that to the fine work our teachers and our administrators are
doing on a daily basis.” Last week, Hite reported 82% of enrolled students had
signed on for their virtual classes. He did not provide updated numbers, and
said students who do not log on by Friday will be dropped from the rolls.
Pa. House will attempt to override Gov. Tom Wolf’s
planned veto of ‘Let them Play’ bill dealing with school sports and fan
attendance
By Jan
Murphy | jmurphy@pennlive.com Updated Sep
10, 2020; Posted Sep 10, 2020
The Pennsylvania House Republican leader vows
a veto override vote will happen in the near future if Gov. Tom Wolf carries
through with his planned veto of a bill that would give local school officials
the exclusive authority to decide whether to allow sports and extra-curricular
activities to be held this school year and how many spectators can attend. Wolf
indicated on Wednesday that he intended to veto the bill granting public and
nonpublic school officials that power, calling it unnecessary and posing a
potential public health risk to allow large gatherings in the midst of the
COVID-19 pandemic. House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff, R-Centre County,
issued a statement on Thursday saying at its first opportunity, the House will
attempt to override the Democratic governor’s planned veto of House Bill 2787, otherwise
referred to as the “Let them Play” bill. The bill drew strong bipartisan
support in both the House and Senate, where it passed in each chamber with
enough votes to exceed the two-thirds majority needed to override a veto. It passed the Senate on
Wednesday by a vote of 39-11. It passed
the House last week by a vote of 155-47.
Mars Area district utilizing video service for sports
fans
Post Gazette by SANDY TROZZO SEP 10, 2020 9:24
AM
If parents and other interested spectators
are not allowed to watch young athletes in person this season, the Mars Area
School District is offering the next best thing. Jeff Bitzer, the district’s
director of school safety and security, told school board members Tuesday that
the district is using Hudl, a subscription video service, and will have four
cameras in the stadium and others in the gyms to film the games. The games will
be livestreamed on the district’s YouTube channel and can be watched there
later as well. “The cameras look great,” he said. “They follow the ball. They
follow the action. And they don’t require a student or a coach to operate.”
Allentown School District to replace Indian as Raub
Middle School mascot
By JACQUELINE PALOCHKO THE MORNING
CALL | SEP 10, 2020 AT 7:00 AM
The Allentown School District is looking to
change the mascot of one of its middle schools out of sensitivity toward Native
Americans. At Thursday’s meeting, district administrators said they would like
to change Raub Middle School’s mascot, which is currently the Indian. The district will remove
the mascot from the website, social media
and correspondence, and take down any representational of the mascot in school.
Allentown hopes to have a new mascot by early November. There were no questions
or comments from school directors Thursday. Lucretia Brown, deputy
superintendent, said the mascot change is needed to be culturally sensitive to
Native Americans. “It’s imperative that we have mascots … that are not
providing any sort of negative appearance for members of our community,” she
said. Administrators plan to bring a new mascot suggestion to the board for
approval in November. The mascot change comes as there’s a national push to
have teams, from professional sports to schools, change names and mascots that
could be offensive to Native Americans. In Pennsylvania, 64 schools have Native
American mascots and names, according to a July survey by the Pennsylvania Youth Congress. That
number dropped from 67 in 2016. Jason Landau Goodman, executive director of the
Pennsylvania Youth Congress, said there is renewed interest to remove the
names.
“The important thing is you have to keep the number in the
community low,” said Huebner, who is also head of the infectious-disease
department at Munich’s Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital. “This is where the
United States will have problems.”
German schools, reopened a month ago, have seen no major
coronavirus outbreaks
Washington Post By Loveday Morris and
Fiona Weber-Steinhaus September 11, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
BERLIN — It's been a month since German
children began to lead Europe in their post-summer return
to school, streaming back into classrooms and
onto playgrounds, with little aside from masks to differentiate the scene from
pre-coronavirus times. So far, epidemiologists are cautiously optimistic. The
school openings have been accompanied by some panicked closures and
quarantines. In the first week, there were 31 clusters, amounting to 150 cases,
of the novel coronavirus in schools, according to Germany’s Robert Koch
Institute. At least 41 schools in Berlin were reported to have been affected in
the first two weeks. But there have been few transmissions within schools
themselves, health experts say, and although the number of new daily cases in
Germany has been rising, schools haven’t been identified as a driver of infections. “It’s
looking promising,” said Johannes Huebner, president of the German Society for
Pediatric Infectious Diseases. “There have not been any major outbreaks yet.
Single cases, but they seem to be manageable.” While Germany’s full-throttle
return to class may provide some assurance for those fretting about school
returns in the United States and elsewhere, health experts note that it’s still
just the early days — and they warn about extrapolating too much. They say the
risk associated with reopenings has a lot to do with the levels of the virus
circulating in a community.
DeVos drops controversial rule giving coronavirus aid to
private schools after judge said it was illegal
Washington Post By Valerie Strauss September
10, 2020 at 12:45 p.m. EDT
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has quietly
dropped a controversial rule directing states to give private schools a bigger
share of federal coronavirus aid
than Congress had intended after a federal judge ruled that it violated the
law. The case involved the distribution of about $13.5 billion that Congress
included in its $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security
(Cares) Act, passed in March, to mitigate economic damage from the coronavirus
pandemic. The Education Department did not respond to a query about the issue.
The department did not announce the decision to drop the rule but put it in an update Wednesday
about the Cares Act. The department said that the U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia had ordered the rule vacated on Friday, Sept. 4, and that,
therefore, the rule “is no longer in effect.” Lawmakers from both parties said
that most of the Cares Act’s K-12 education funding was intended to be
distributed to public and private elementary and secondary schools using a
formula based on how many poor children they serve that had long been used for
distributing federal aid. But DeVos said she wanted money sent to private
schools based on the total number of students in the school, not how many
students from low-income families attended. That would have sent hundreds of
millions of dollars more to private schools than Congress had intended.
A Choice Moment: Coronavirus Opens a Path to School
Choice
The White House, and some parents, are eyeing
school choice options to get kids back inside school buildings.
US News By Lauren Camera, Senior
Education Writer Sept. 10, 2020, at 11:59 a.m.
THE WHITE HOUSE – seeing a
strategic opening amid mass school closures and a national reckoning over
systemic racism – is ramping up its pursuit of school choice, going so far as
to make it a central tool in the president's reelection strategy despite logging
few wins on its No. 1 education priority over the past four years. With the
majority of the country's 55 million children beginning the school year with
some type of remote learning – prolonging the complicated and stressful
scenario parents were thrust into in March of becoming a teacher while
maintaining a full-time job, often with little to no additional help – the
Trump administration is banking on the issue appealing to the masses now more
than ever. "You were disappointed last spring when your kids couldn't
finish the school year with their friends," Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said,
speaking to parents in a recorded video posted to the Education Department's
social media accounts recently. "You tried your best to step up to the
plate and become a full-time teacher yourself in addition to keeping your day
job all the while worrying about your family's health and safety. Now as we
approach fall, you're told you may have to go it alone again."
Blogger commentary:
Parents considering cyber charters due to COVID might not be
aware of their 20 year consistent track record of academic underperformance. As
those parents face an expected blitz of advertising by cybers, in order for
them to make a more informed decision, you might consider providing them with
some of the info listed below:
A June 2 paper from the highly respected Brookings Institution stated,
“We find the impact of attending a virtual charter on student achievement is
uniformly and profoundly negative,” and then went on to say that “there is no
evidence that virtual charter students improve in subsequent years.”
In 2016, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers,
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, and the national charter lobbying
group 50CAN released a report on cyber charters that found that overall, cyber
students make no significant gains in math and less than half the gains in
reading compared with their peers in traditional public schools.
A Stanford University CREDO
Study in 2015 found that cyber students on average lost 72 days a year
in reading and 180 days a year in math compared with students in traditional
public schools.
From 2005 through 2012 under the federal No Child Left
Behind Act, most Pennsylvania cybers never made “adequate yearly progress.”
Following NCLB, for all five years (2013-2017) that Pennsylvania’s School
Performance Profile system was in place, not one cyber charter ever achieved a
passing score of 70.
Under Pennsylvania’s current accountability system, the Future Ready PA Index, all 15 cyber charters that operated
2018-2019 have been identified for some level of support and improvement.
PA SCHOOLS WORK WEBINAR : Public School Advocacy in the
New Normal of a COVID-19 World; Tue, Sep 15, 2020 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM EDT
For the foreseeable future, COVID-19 is a
part of our everyday lives. More parents and community members than ever before
have engaged at the school district level as schools wrestled with their options
for reopening this fall. This conversation will be about continuing our
advocacy for public schools, and how the challenges districts are facing in the
COVID-19 era are magnified by long-term inequities in our funding system and
years of lackluster financial support for public education from state
government. So, what can we do about it? Come find out
Registration: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4024270141202312975
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.
https://www.psba.org/event/psba-fall-virtual-advocacy-day/
Save The Date: The PSBA 2020 Equity Summit is happening
virtually on October 13th.
Discover how to build a foundation for equity
in practice and policy.
Learn more: https://t.co/KQviB4TTOj
PASA-PSBA School Leadership Conference October 14-15
Virtual
Registration is now open for the first ever virtual
School Leadership Conference! Join us for all-new educational sessions, dynamic
speakers, exhibitors, and more! Visit the website for registration
information: https://t.co/QfinpBL69u #PASLC20 https://t.co/JYeRhJLUmZ
What to expect at this year’s School Leadership
Conference
POSTED ON AUGUST 31, 2020 IN PSBA
NEWS
At the 2020 PASA-PSBA School Leadership
Conference on October 14-15, you'll encounter the same high-quality experience
you've come to expect, via new virtual platform. Hear world-class speakers and
relevant educational sessions, and network with exhibitors and attendees — from
the comfort of your home or office on any internet-enabled device.
The virtual conference platform is accessible
via a unique link provided to each registrant about a week before conference.
No additional app downloads are required. The intuitive 3D interface is easy to
use and immersive — you'll feel like you're on location. Registrants will be
able to explore the space a day before conference starts. Highlights
include:
- Virtual
exhibit hall
- Interactive
lobby area and information desk
- Virtual
auditorium
- Digital
swag bag
- Scavenger
hunt
This year, conference is completely free
to attend! Be among the first 125 to register, and receive a special
pre-conference swag bag, sent to your home. Click here for
more information about how to register.
https://www.psba.org/2020/08/what-to-expect-at-this-years-school-leadership-conference/
Adopt the resolution against racial inequity!
School boards are asked to adopt this
resolution supporting the development of an anti-racist climate. Once adopted,
share your resolution with your local community and submit a copy to PSBA.
Learn more: http://ow.ly/yJWA50B2R72
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.
Resolution for charter
funding reform (pdf)
Link to submit your adopted resolution to
PSBA
293 PA school boards have adopted charter reform
resolutions
Charter school funding reform continues to be
a concern as over 290 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.
https://www.psba.org/2020/03/adopted-charter-reform-resolutions/
Know Your Facts on Funding and Charter Performance. Then
Call for Charter Change!
PSBA Charter Change Website:
https://www.pacharterchange.org/
The Network for Public Education Action Conference has
been rescheduled to April 24-25, 2021 at the Philadelphia Doubletree Hotel
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