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The PA House is scheduled to be
back in session at 9:00 am
Saturday June 30th
Gov.
Tom Corbett expected to sign budget plan today
Published: Saturday, June 30, 2012 , 5:00 AM
BY JAN MURPHY AND CHARLES
THOMPSON, The Patriot-News
For the second consecutive year,
Gov. Tom Corbett is in a position to say he got a state budget done on time. Barely.
The state
Senate approved the $27.7 billion state spending plan 32-17 Friday. The
House passed the bill Thursday. Corbett is expected to sign it once he receives
the enabling bills that finance the spending plan. The governor is expected to
sign the budget today
— before the midnight
deadline when the state loses authority to pay certain vendors and services.
On Friday night, legislative
leaders and administration officials were trying to hammer out the final
details and votes for charter school reforms in a broader education bill.
The major stumbling block is a
Senate-backed provision through which a majority of parents could petition to
convert a public school to a charter school, sources said.
Lawmakers have to reach agreement
on that while not shaking off support from Democrats that may be critical to
passing the larger bill.
“We’re doing an incredibly large
bucket of education reform, and I think it’s perfectly understandable there’s
disagreement on some of the pieces,” said Drew Crompton, chief of staff to
Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati, R-Jefferson County
The package also creates a business-funded
scholarship program designed to help lower-income students move out of the
worst-performing public schools.
Budget
Updates: Senate passes cracker tax credit, teacher evaluations; question remain
on charter school reform
PA Independent This is an update
from 10:10 p.m.
…..The state House will vote
Saturday on that bill and on a proposal to change the way public school
teachers are evaluated.
….However, one expected vote did
not take place on a bill that would have expanded the existing Educational
Improvement Tax Credit, or EITC, program to $100 million and added a new
$50 million component aimed at getting poor students out of the state’s
worst-performing school districts.
There is also work to be done on a
charter school reform package that would change how those schools are
authorized at the state level and would implement a series of financial
accountability measures.
“A few lingering, ongoing discussions,
but nothing that gives us any concern,” said Erik Arneson,
spokesman for Senate Majority Leader
Dominic Pileggi, R-Chester. “We have an agreement with the House.
We’re very confident that agreement will be honored.”
PA School Funding Campaign:
2012-2013 STATE BUDGET REJECTS ADDITIONAL K-12 FUNDING CUTS
BUT FAILS TO ADDRESS KEY SCHOOL DISTRICT ISSUES AND PRIOR YEAR CUTS FOR
STUDENTS
HARRISBURG (June 29, 2012) Members
of the Pennsylvania School Funding Campaign (PSFC) express appreciation today
to the General Assembly for sending to the Governor a $27.7 billion state
budget which increases by $150 million state support for basic education over
the amount proposed in February, 2012.
Posted: Sat, Jun. 30, 2012 , 3:01 AM
The
Chester Upland School District
By Dan Hardy Inquirer Staff
Writer
William
Hite tapped to run Philly schools
By Benjamin Herold for the Notebook and
WHYY/Newsworks June 29, 2012
Former teacher, principal, and
Prince George's County, Md., schools chief William
Hite is the new superintendent of Philadelphia schools. “Philadelphia
is one of America
Eliminate
the pension double-dip reimbursement that taxpayers pay to charter schools
Zero
transparency, zero public scrutiny on PA EITC funds given to private and
religious schools. Why is that?
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/160641745.html
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/160641745.html
Critics
say Auditor General Jack Wagner's
Charter School Funding Special Report on PA charter funding is misguided;
what do you think?
http://keystonestateeducationcoalition.blogspot.com/2011/06/follow-money-contributions-by-vahan.html
PA
Charter funding formula is great for CEO whose cyber never made AYP
STATEWIDE PRESS COVERAGE OF SCHOOL DISTRICT
BUDGETS
Here are more than 800 articles since
January 23rd detailing budget cuts, program cuts, staffing cuts and
tax increases being discussed by local school districts
The PA House Democratic Caucus has been tracking daily press coverage on
school district budgets statewide:
Candidates for 2013 PSBA officers
At its May 19 meeting
at PSBA Conference Center
Absentee ballot procedures for election of PSBA officers
PSBA website 6/1/2012
All school directors
and school board secretaries who are eligible to vote and who do not plan to
attend the association's annual business meeting during the 2012 PASA-PSBA
School Leadership Conference in Hershey, Oct. 16-19, may request an absentee
ballot for election purposes.
The absentee ballot
must be requested from the PSBA executive director in accordance with the PSBA
Bylaws provisions (see PSBA Bylaws, Article IV, Section 4, J-Q.). Specify the
name and mailing address of each individual for whom a ballot is requested.
Requests must be in
writing, e-mailed or mailed first class and postmarked or marked received at
PSBA Headquarters no later than Aug. 15. Mail to Executive Director, P.O. Box 2042 , Mechanicsburg ,
PA 17055
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