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PA Ed Policy Roundup for Dec. 9, 2020
New Pa. data shows
how the pandemic gave a big boost to cyber charter schools
WHYY By Avi Wolfman-Arent December 8, 2020
New data
from Pennsylvania’s Department of Education shows that the pandemic has caused
a small, but significant enrollment decline at traditional public schools,
while increasing the share of cyber charter students. It’s also revealed an
interesting divide. While public schools in urban and suburban counties have
lost students, schools in more rural counties have largely tread water. Overall, preliminary
enrollment data shows a 1.7% drop in total public school enrollment,
which equates to about 30,000 students statewide. The dip was more pronounced
in kindergarten, where enrollment fell from 115,275 students last year to
110,803 students in 2020 — nearly a 4% decline. One type of public school has
gotten more popular, though: the state’s cyber charter schools. Enrollment in
the publicly funded but privately managed online schools jumped from 38,266 to
60,890. That’s a 59% enrollment spike.
PARENTS IN CHESTER
UPLAND ASK COURT TO SUSPEND CHARTER SCHOOL CONVERSION PROCESS, CONDUCTED IN
SECRET
Today,
parents and a community organization in Chester Upland School District filed an
emergency motion to suspend a process to outsource the entire district’s
operations and schools to charter operators. This request for proposals process
has taken place in secret, with no public notice and no opportunities for
parents and other community members to weigh in.
December 4,
2020 — Today, parents and a community organization in Chester Upland School
District (CUSD) filed an emergency motion to suspend a process to outsource the
entire district’s operations and schools to charter operators. This request for
proposals (RFP) process has taken place in secret, with no public notice and no
opportunities for parents and other community members to weigh in—violating court-ordered
requirements. In addition, the RFP itself, issued on
October 26, does not comply with state law requiring bidders to provide
alternatives for students who do not wish to attend charter schools, and it
does not require an evaluation of whether or not a bidder will provide a higher
quality education than district schools, including for students with
disabilities.
Allentown and
Bethlehem Area schools should have gotten $4.5 million more in coronavirus
relief money, but state shorted neediest school districts, report says
By MICHELLE
MERLIN THE MORNING CALL | DEC 08, 2020 AT 9:21
PM
If $174
million in federal coronavirus aid had been allocated to Pennsylvania school
districts using the state’s traditional funding formula, then Allentown School
District would have received about $5.6 million. Instead, the state allocated
the money to public schools by giving them all $120,000 plus additional money
based on the number of students they have. Allentown received $1.5 million. The
way the $174 million was allocated shorted the neediest districts, a report
released Monday said. The Keystone Research Center found that districts with
the highest density of poor, Black and Hispanic students received less funding
than those with the least density, reinforcing existing inequities. “This is a
pretty simple story about getting the allocation of these funds backward,”
Keystone Research Center Executive Director Stephen Herzenberg said. He said
that within the context of the racial reckoning the country is going through,
“there is a tone deafness to the distribution of these funds that is stunning.”
Philly mayor, school
board objected to CARES fund distribution
Chalkbeat
Philly By Dale
Mezzacappa Dec 8, 2020, 7:42pm EST
Mayor Jim
Kenney and city council president Darrell Clarke sent a letter to Gov. Tom Wolf
in August complaining about how the state distributed $174 million in
coronavirus relief funds to school districts, saying it denied the Philadelphia
school district, the state’s largest, its “fair share” of the money. Letter
from Mayor Kenney and Councilman Clarke
A report issued
this week by two state education advocacy
organizations said that districts serving low-income, mostly Black and Latino
students were shortchanged by the process. The groups urged state leaders to
distribute any additional federal funds by using the state’s basic education
formula, which takes into account factors such as poverty and the number of
English language learners. The letter from Kenney and Clarke called the formula
the state used “inequitable” and called for Wolf to use his emergency education
money to fix the disparity and “ensure Philadelphia students receive their fair
share of state funding.” Republican legislative leaders devised the formula
used to distribute the health and safety grants — giving each of the state’s
500 school districts a baseline of $120,000 and then allocating the rest based
on total enrollment. The result: Philadelphia received less per student than
any other district, according to the letter. After the Keystone Research Center
and Education Voters PA released the report, Wolf, a Democrat, said he agreed
the money should have been distributed using the state’s basic education funding
system, also known as the “fair funding” formula.
Report: PA
shortchanged poor schools in distributing stimulus funds
Lawrence County
New Castle News By
John Finnerty CNHI State Reporter Dec 8, 2020
Pennsylvania’s
move to divide stimulus funding based on enrollment short-changed poor schools,
a report released Monday concluded. The last round of federal stimulus funding
provided $600 million for schools in Pennsylvania. Members of Congress are
negotiating another round of COVID relief -- a proposed $908
billion plan. Stephen Herzenberg, executive director of the Keystone Research
Center, said that he hopes that if the second round of stimulus funding is
split to provide a larger share to poorer school districts. The first round of
stimulus mandated that $400 million be divided between schools based on a
formula spelled out in the federal Every Student Succeeds Act. As a result, the
funding was weighted to provide additional help to poorer districts, Herzenberg
said. However, the state’s method of dividing the remaining $200 million didn’t
take into account the wealth or poverty of the school districts, Herzenberg
said. About $25 million went to charter schools and other educational entities.
The remainder was split by giving each district a base payment of $120,000 and
then adding funding based on the number of students enrolled in the district.
That meant larger districts got more funding regardless of how much financial
help the district needed, Herzenberg said. “Pennsylvania got the distribution
of these funds backward in the sense that the districts with the greatest need
received the least funding per student,” he said.
Charter schools a
concern for Bedford County local districts
Gettysburg
Times By Cati Keith Gazette Staff Writer December 9, 2020
The cost of
charter schools is a concern to many school districts in Bedford County. Charter
schools are public schools that are separate from school districts. There are
two types of charter schools: brick-and-mortar, and cyber schools. Charter
schools can be in one or more school districts. One brick-and-mortar school in
the county is HOPE for Hyndman. Some cyber charters are Agora, PA Cyber,
Connections Academy, Commonwealth Charter Academy, and PA Virtual Charter
School. Charter schools are free to those who attend like district public
schools, but students attend at the expense of taxpayers. School districts use
taxpayer money to pay tuition to charter schools. They must pay tuition for
every student who lives in the district and attends any type of charter school.
Districts must also provide transportation to charters school up to 10 miles
from the district’s boundary. The cost for charters goes up every year, and has
become a major source of budget pressure for school districts. In 2018-19 total
charter school tuition payments were more that $2.0 billion as reported by PA
Charter Change. They also reported that $606 million of that was to cyber
charter schools.
Blogger note: In 2005-06, the PSERS rate
was 4.7%; in 2011-12 it was 8.7%
PSERS sets employer
contribution rate of 34.94% for 2021-22
POSTED
ON DECEMBER 9, 2020 IN PSBA NEWS
Last week,
the Public School Employees Retirement System (PSERS) Board of Trustees
certified an annual employer contribution rate of 34.94% for fiscal year
2021-22, which begins on July 1, 2020. The board also certified and
retained the current T-E member contribution rate of 7.5%, T-F member
contribution rate of 10.3%, TG member contribution rate of 8.25% (defined
benefit rate 5.50% ; DC rate 2.75%) and TH member contribution rate of
7.5% (defined benefit rate 4.5%; DC rate 3%) for the three-year period from
July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024 in accordance with the shared risk provisions of
PSERS' retirement code.
https://www.psba.org/2020/12/psers-sets-employer-contribution-rate-for-2021-22/
Philadelphia’s
educators should get vaccine priority, mayor says
Chalkbeat
Philly By Dale
Mezzacappa Dec 8, 2020, 5:38pm EST
“We would
like to get schools open and have it done safely,” the mayor said at his
regular briefing about the coronavirus pandemic. “[Teachers] are a priority for
us, not the same as an ICU nurse, but they do have priority from our perspective,”
Kenney said. School superintendent William Hite also called last week for
educators to be among the first
workers to get vaccinated. He and
other urban school leaders are pushing the issue nationally, he said. City
health commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley said he expects Philadelphia will get
some vaccines as early as next week from Pfizer and some from Moderna the week
after. But he said people should not expect widespread availability until the
spring of 2021. The first priority for the city is to vaccinate frontline
medical personnel, which are those who work in hospitals, nursing homes, and
other facilities, Farley said. After that other “critical workers” would
receive the vaccination, but that category of workers has yet to be defined.
Farley said it’s “too early to say” whether teachers would fall into that
category. He suggested that “critical workers” would be those who have “lots of
contact with other people.”
From COVID-19 data to
in-person school, Bucks County’s health department goes its own way
Inquirer by Jason Laughlin and Maddie Hanna, Posted: December 9, 2020
For most
Southeastern Pennsylvanians, just a few clicks on their county’s web site gets
them current local information on COVID-19 cases and deaths. Unless they live
in Bucks County.
That
county’s health department stopped providing new data on the pandemic’s spread
in each of its 54 municipalities about a month ago, saying it was too
overwhelmed by the surging number of cases to adequately contact-trace new
positives. Other area counties also struggle with tracing, yet still provide
daily updates. It’s the latest example of how the county’s health department
and its controversial director, David Damsker, have stood apart from, and
sometimes at odds with, most health experts throughout the pandemic. When
others recommended six feet of social distancing within schools, Damsker said
three feet would do. He pushed for schools to keep in-person instruction going
as some experts urged virtual lessons. And until recently his department kept
its own count of COVID-19 deaths that tallied 100 fewer deaths than the state,
in part because of Damsker leaving out cases where his department deemed
COVID-19 infection was not the “substantial” cause of death.
Departing Trump
administration wants to weaken nutrition rules for school meals
Inquirer by Alfred Lubrano, Posted: December 9, 2020
In their
last days in office, Trump administration officials are trying to reduce
nutrition requirements for school meals, seeking to undo changes initiated by
the Obama administration a decade ago. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says
it wants to allow school districts to be more “flexible” with rules that
previously stipulated 100% whole grains, reductions in sodium levels, and a
switchover to fat-free flavored milk. The Trump administration would halve
whole-grain requirements to 50%, do away with sodium-reduction targets, and
re-introduce 1% chocolate milk. The administration’s stance, which critics say
would make school meals less healthy, is seen as yet another slap at President
Barack Obama, as well as at former First Lady Michelle Obama, who championed
nutrition standards and helped inspire the bipartisan Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, whose 10-year anniversary is next week. Over
the last four years, President Donald Trump has made no secret of wanting to
reverse his predecessor’s accomplishments. Anti-hunger advocates say the rule
change will disproportionately affect low-income children who depend on school
meals for balanced nutrition.
“The ban on coordination between outside
groups like RSLC and traditional political campaigns stems from a landmark campaign-finance
decision a decade ago by the U.S. Supreme Court. The case, known as Citizens
United, effectively allowed corporations and other outside groups to make
unlimited contributions, reversing decades of restrictions on giving.”
Firm ran Pa. senator’s
campaign and worked with super PAC to attack opponent, but denies coordination
by
Angela Couloumbis of Spotlight PA and Sam Janesch of The Caucus, Posted: December
8, 2020- 3:42 PM
HARRISBURG —
As state legislative races go, the one between Republican Sen. John DiSanto and
Democrat George Scott was one of the most hotly contested in Pennsylvania’s
November election. The Dauphin County matchup was key to Democrats’ hopes of
wresting control of the chamber from Republicans for the first time in more
than 25 years, an effort that ultimately failed. And it was an all-out political brawl.
DiSanto and Scott spent weeks attacking each other’s policies in a barrage of
mailers and television ads. In the closing days of the election, a 15-second
anti-Scott ad hit the airwaves, paid for
by the Washington-based Republican State Leadership Committee.
The list:
Pittsburgh-area school districts extend remote learning as COVID-19 cases surge
PITTSBURGH
POST-GAZETTE DEC 8, 2020 12:51 PM
An
increasing number of schools and districts in southwestern Pennsylvania are
transitioning to remote instruction as the Pittsburgh region continues to experience a spike in COVID-19 cases.
The
districts said they plan to monitor conditions in Allegheny County and adjust
their instruction schedules accordingly. Here are the districts that have
announced changes (in alphabetical order):
Norwin sees more
covid cases; 57 since Thanksgiving
Trib Live by
JOE
NAPSHA | Tuesday, December 8,
2020 10:57 p.m.
Norwin
continues to a see a surge in covid cases, as another five students and staff
reported being infected with the virus, pushing the post-Thanksgiving count to
57, the district said Tuesday. The school district said it learned Tuesday that
two high school students, one Hillcrest Intermediate School student and one
Stewartsville Elementary student have covid, as well as a Hillcrest staff member.
Norwin now has had 141 students and staff infected with coronavirus since school began on Aug.
31.
https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/norwin-sees-more-covid-cases-57-since-thanksgiving/
Fox Chapel Area
returns to in-person classes, reports 10 active covid-19 cases in district
Trib Live by
TAWNYA PANIZZI | Tuesday, December 8,
2020 1:58 p.m.
As Fox Chapel Area students returned to in-person classes
this week, officials said there is no current plan for middle and high school
students to be in the buildings on a full-time basis. Elementary students have
returned to five-day, in-person classes but older students will remain in a
hybrid learning model, Superintendent Mary Catherine Reljac said. “We are
living in rapidly changing times,” she said during a Dec. 1 school board
meeting. “The last two weeks have been extremely eventful for school
districts.” Currently, there are 10 active
cases of covid-19 in the district, with a
total of 42 cases since the beginning of the school year.
‘Health tops
education’: Hempfield Area school officials explain remote learning call during
virus surge
Trib Live by
MEGAN
TOMASIC | Monday, December 7,
2020 11:09 p.m.
More than
350 people tuned in to a virtual Hempfield Area School Board meeting on Monday
to hear the rationale for why the administration chose to move students to
remote learning until after the holidays — a decision made days after the board reaffirmed students
would return to the hybrid model of learning. Superintendent Tammy Wolicki,
along with other administration officials, decided late Friday to have students
continue with remote learning until
Jan. 4, attributing the decision to a rising number of covid-19 cases in
community. Students were scheduled to return to a mix of in-person and remote
classes Monday, following a week of remote learning after the Thanksgiving
break.
With coronavirus
surging, Bethlehem schools remain hybrid but others consider switch
By CHRISTINA
TATU THE MORNING CALL | DEC 09, 2020 AT 5:20
AM
Lehigh
Valley school districts are weighing whether to go fully remote after a surge
in coronavirus cases following Thanksgiving break. The Bethlehem Area School
District saw a spike of nearly 100 cases among staff and students this past
week, said Superintendent Joseph Roy. There were 70 cases reported last
Monday-Friday and another 24 reported this Monday. Fortunately, most of them
happened over the holiday break so those who tested positive had not been in
the school building for the past two weeks. “Things have picked up
drastically,” Roy said on Tuesday afternoon, explaining that the district had
been seeing about 10 cases a day before the Thanksgiving break. “It’s like a
surge on top of a surge,” he said. Still, Bethlehem plans to continue with its
hybrid learning model for now. Others are considering a switch to all-remote
learning.
Penn-Delco goes back
to full virtual learning until after winter break
Delco Times
by Pete
Bannan Pbannan@21st-Centurymedia.com December 9, 2020
Students in
the Penn-Delco School District will go fully virtual for a short time after the
winter break to allow district nursing staff to work with officials from the
Chester County Department of Health District Nursing Staff to accurately track
possible COVID-19 infections diagnosed over the winter break. Penn-Delco is
planning to be virtual for just two days, Jan. 4 and 5, upon return from Winter
Break. “This is a proactive, precautionary measure that will provide our nurses
and administrators with additional time to respond to new reports of potential
COVID cases, staff quarantines or other COVID-related absences that could
develop over the full break,” Penn-Delco Superintendent George Steinhoff wrote
in an email Tuesday. “The goal is to avoid the potential of last-minute
surprises as the nurses work through contact tracing on cases that we
anticipate will develop during that period of time.” Students will not report
to school on Jan. 4 and 5, working virtually. The Penn-Delco School Board
approved the change at a special meeting Monday. Steinhoff said the district’s
hybrid schedule, which it has been following for the past two months, combined
with a virtual/cyber option, has provided options for parents and has worked as
well as can be expected, thanks to the efforts of the staff. Penn-Delco has had
17 cases across the district - six at Sun Valley High School and four or fewer
at their five other schools, according to its caseload
dashboard. There have been 104 students and staff quarantined.
School districts
shift between in-person, online, and hybrid learning | PennLive letters
Penn Live By
Robert Griffiths Updated Dec 08, 2020; Posted Dec 08, 2020
In the 24
hours preceding the writing of this letter, the Pennsylvania Department of
Health reports there were 6,339 positive cases and 95 deaths from COVID.
Statewide records have been set over the last two weeks. Without doubt, these
alarming numbers represent a serious health crisis that is not only impacting
our lives, but also our children and their schooling. With more students and
staff testing positive and getting sick, school administrators and school
boards are forced to choose between online, in-person, or a blend of both. These
are difficult decisions forced upon both school superintendents and school
boards. These critical decisions forced upon our school leaders places them in
the uncomfortable position of making life and death health policy decisions.
The core mission of school leaders is to set educational policies not life and
death health policies.
“Black and Hispanic students are more
likely than white students to be learning remotely, and they are twice as
likely as white students to have received no live contact with teachers over
the previous week, it found.”
A New Report Confirms
Our Fears About Remote Learning's Impact on Students
TIME BY KATIE REILLY DECEMBER 8, 2020 10:00 AM EST
Students in
the U.S. are likely to have suffered up to nine months of learning loss in
math, on average, by the end of the academic year because of disruptions caused
by the pandemic, and students of color could be as many as 12 months
behind, according to a report published Tuesday — the latest analysis
of the toll this unprecedented
school year has taken on children.
The study
released by McKinsey & Company comes as school districts struggle to find a way to educate students while coronavirus cases surge around the country. And as experts have
warned all along, it shows that the pandemic has widened existing racial and socioeconomic disparities in education. “While all students are
suffering, those who came into the pandemic with the fewest academic
opportunities are on track to exit with the greatest learning loss,” said the
report, which was released nine months after U.S. schools initially shut down
to slow the spread of the virus.
https://time.com/5918769/coronavirus-schools-learning-loss/
“The other goal of his 100-day plan,
Biden said, is to enable “the majority of our schools” to reopen within that
time and to remain open. He called on Congress to devote the funding needed to
make it safe for students and teachers to return to classrooms.”
Biden lays out plan
to combat covid in first 100 days, including requiring masks on interstate
buses, trains
Washington Post
By Amy
Goldstein Dec. 8, 2020 at 3:57 p.m. EST
President-elect
Joe Biden on Tuesday laid out a three-point plan to begin defeating the coronavirus pandemic during his first 100 days in
office, saying he will sign an executive order the day he is sworn in to
require Americans to wear masks on buses and trains crossing state lines, as
well as in federal buildings. Biden also pledged to distribute “at least 100
million covid vaccine shots” during that time, singling out educators, who he
said should get shots “as soon as possible” after they are given first to
health workers and people who live and work in long-term-care facilities under
current plans. He did not specify whether he meant 100 million doses or
vaccinating that many people; the two vaccines nearing approval both require
two doses.
U.S. Supreme Court
denies Republican appeal to block Pa. election results
JULIAN ROUTH
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette jrouth@post-gazette.com DEC 8, 2020 5:27 PM
The U.S.
Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an emergency appeal by Pennsylvania
Republicans that sought to void results of the Nov. 3 election in the
battleground state, including Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the presidential
race. The nation’s highest court denied Republicans’ request for an emergency
injunction, declining to issue one immediately to stop or reverse the
certification of election results. The court also did not voluntarily take up
the issue of the constitutionality of the state Legislature’s expansion to
absentee voting last year — a law the GOP asked the court to strike down. “The
application for injunctive relief presented to Justice [Samuel] Alito and by
him referred to the Court is denied,” the Supreme Court’s one-line order read.
Republican Sen. Pat
Toomey calls Trump’s campaign to overturn Pennsylvania election ‘completely
unacceptable’
Inquirer by Jonathan Tamari, December 8, 2020
Sen. Pat
Toomey said Tuesday that it’s “completely unacceptable” for President Donald
Trump to pressure state lawmakers to overturn Pennsylvania’s election result, a
rare rebuke from a Republican elected official as Trump continues his effort to
subvert the will of the voters. “It’s completely unacceptable and it’s not
going to work and the president should give up trying to get legislatures to
overturn the results of the elections in their respective states,” Toomey,
Pennsylvania’s most prominent elected Republican, said in a phone interview.
His comments came a day after it emerged that Trump called the Republican state House Speaker to seek help in undoing the outcome. Toomey,
one of fewer than 30 congressional Republicans to openly acknowledge the election
results, said he spoke with President-elect Joe Biden by phone late last week,
congratulated him on his victory, and discussed some of the few areas where
they might be able to cooperate, such as on international trade. “We had a very
pleasant conversation,” Toomey said.
Trump thought courts
were key to winning. Judges in Pa. and across America disagreed.
Penn Live By The Associated Press Updated 11:49 AM; Today 11:49 AM
Story By
Colleen Long and Ed White, Associated Press
WASHINGTON
(AP) — President Donald Trump and his allies say their lawsuits aimed at subverting
the 2020 election and reversing his loss to Joe Biden would be substantiated,
if only judges were allowed to hear the cases. There is a central flaw in the
argument. Judges have heard the cases and have been among the harshest critics
of the legal arguments put forth by Trump’s legal team, often dismissing them
with scathing language of repudiation. This has been true whether the judge has
been appointed by a Democrat or a Republican, including those named by Trump
himself. The judicial rulings that have rejected Trump’s unfounded claims of
widespread voter fraud have underscored not only the futility of the lame-duck
president’s brazen attempt to sabotage the people’s will but also the role of
the courts in checking his unprecedented efforts to stay in power.
Pa. Republicans, we
are better than this | Opinion
Murray
Dickman, For The Inquirer Posted: December 8, 2020 - 10:37 AM
What has
become of my party? After a career spent in Pennsylvania and national politics
as a Republican, I’m disappointed to see some Republicans’ behavior in the
aftermath of the election. Pennsylvania Republicans used to be — and ought to
be — better than this. From 1979-1988, I served as the top political aide and
Secretary of Administration for Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh and
served on the GOP State Committee leadership. When President Reagan asked him
to serve as Attorney General and President George H.W. Bush asked him to
remain, I served as his principal aide. I was honored to work in an
administration that cared so deeply about advancing the conservative agenda,
including the selection of federal judges. And like many Pennsylvanians, I felt
pride for my state’s role in the American story. Our state was founded on the
principles of tolerance for all. It’s no accident that our first city was named
for brotherly love. It was here that American unity was born, in the mind of
Benjamin Franklin, who admonished the other colonies: Join or Die. It was here
that Lincoln spoke of government “of the people, by the people, for the
people.” Yet some Pennsylvania Republicans have tried to undo this election.
Rep. Mike Kelly introduced a lawsuit that attempted to throw out millions of
mail-in ballots and have the certification of the election delayed. The
Pennsylvania Supreme Court quickly rejected
the lawsuit. Lawsuits brought by the Trump campaign
have similarly
been tossed by federal judges appointed by
Republican presidents, including Trump, for complete lack of evidence. Yet some
of the Republicans in the General Assembly are picking up where the lawsuits
left off. Sixty-four Republican representatives released
a statement demanding the U.S. Congress block
Pennsylvania’s electors from voting for Biden at the Electoral College
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
334 PA school boards have
adopted charter reform resolutions
Charter school funding reform continues to be
a concern as over 330 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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