“Only public schools, operated by school districts with elected
school boards are open to all children and fully accountable to all taxpayers.”
Baruch Kintisch, Director of Policy Advocacy,
Education Law Center, in testimony before the PA House Democratic Policy
Committee, July
17, 2012
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from the Keystone State Education Coalition now reach more than 1600
Pennsylvania education policymakers – school directors, administrators,
legislators, legislative and congressional staffers, members of the press and a
broad array of education advocacy organizations via emails, website, Facebook
and Twitter.
These daily
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New
voucher study doesn’t live up to hype, NSBA says
NSBA School Board News by Joetta
Sack-Min August
23rd, 2012
A new study released
today by the Brookings Institute and Harvard University researcher Paul E.
Peterson shows that low-income students who participated in a three-year
voucher program in New York City in the late 1990s overall fared no better in
college enrollments than their peers in public schools. However, the study
found that African-American students did attend college at higher rates than
those who did not receive vouchers.
Although the study was relatively small and narrowly
focused, the authors and voucher proponents are using it to lobby for expanding
voucher programs across the country. Peterson and researcher Matthew M. Chingos
published an editorial in The Wall
Street Journal calling on the Obama administration to support the
voucher program for students in Washington
D.C.
Media
Spin About Vouchers
Diane Ravitch’s Blog August 23, 2012
The Wall Street Journal has an odd article today trumpeting “A Generation of School Voucher Success” by
voucher advocate Paul Peterson of Harvard and Matthew Chingos of the Brookings
Institution. The article is based on a study of a privately funded voucher
program in New York City and its effects on college enrollments of those
who received vouchers.
The
study concluded that “Overall, no significant impacts
are observed.”
Looking
Ahead: PA Charter school reform may face another bumpy path this fall.
Capitol Ideas Blog by
John Micek August
23, 2012
Gov. Tom Corbett’s education czar
said this week that the Republican administration plans to make a renewed
push on the unfinished parts of its school reform agenda during this fall’s
legislative session. But neither time –
nor politics -- is on its side.
Teachers find it’s a
battle for each position
Pittsburgh Tribune Review By Bill
Vidonic and Adam Wagner August
24, 2012 ,
12:01 a.m.
Ryan Dunmire beat long odds when she landed a job teaching business at Chartiers-Houston School District this summer, more than a year after Steel Valley School District furloughed her and dozens of others. “There was one position; they told me they had over 1,000 applicants,” said Dunmire, 29, ofBethel Park . “They said they could be picky, they knew
people needed jobs.”
Ryan Dunmire beat long odds when she landed a job teaching business at Chartiers-Houston School District this summer, more than a year after Steel Valley School District furloughed her and dozens of others. “There was one position; they told me they had over 1,000 applicants,” said Dunmire, 29, of
Since 2009,
districts across the state have cut thousands of classroom positions as they
balanced shrinking budgets. For those trying to enter the teaching field, and
those trying to stay in, it’s a battle for each position.
The Keystone Research
Center in Harrisburg
State
Department of Education figures showed 125,844 full-time teachers in 2010-11, a
drop of nearly 4,000 positions from the year before. The department did not
have figures for the most recent school year.
BACK TO SCHOOL 2012 - WALMART: Save More, Live
Better, Eradicate Public Education: 159,049,864 reasons to shop someplace else.
Posted: Fri, Aug. 24, 2012 , 3:01 AM
By Kristen A. Graham Inquirer Staff Writer
The leadership of the nonprofit Philadelphia
School Partnership announced Thursday that it was more than halfway to its goal
of raising $100 million to pump into expanding strong schools, whether they're
charter, public, or private.
That the group has shaken loose $51.9 million in
just under two years in a tough economy is a symbol of the considerable and
rising influence of the partnership (PSP) in the city's education sector.
EITC 2.0 Vouchers: Pennsylvania 's Opportunity
Scholarship program has yet to make $50 million in funds available
Published:
Thursday, August
23, 2012 , 6:00 AM
Many midstate parents who want to sign up for the state’s new Opportunity Scholarship program this year are coming away with a rain check.
They are being told that money for the scholarships isn’t available yet. So they must send their children to the low-achieving public school they are trying to escape or come up with another way to pay the tuition at a different school.
Can You
Imagine This Scenario?
Diane Ravitch’s Blog August 23, 2012
Imagine a governor rushing to the aid of a
financially distressed public school district by naming a voucher advocate to
run it.
Above Average Jane
Blog Tuesday, August
21, 2012
Today the The
Center for the Next Generation and the Center for American Progress released a research study on
education policy and family behaviors and what this means in terms of America's
ability to remain competitive in the global economy.
The report, The Competition that Really Matters, is 108 pages long and I didn't read all of it but skimmed through over half of it, and read through the press release that accompanied the email announcing the report. I skimmed the chapters focusing on American education; the other chapters looked at the educational policy ofIndia and China India
and China US
The report, The Competition that Really Matters, is 108 pages long and I didn't read all of it but skimmed through over half of it, and read through the press release that accompanied the email announcing the report. I skimmed the chapters focusing on American education; the other chapters looked at the educational policy of
Close look at KIPP
challenges
I have been following the progress of KIPP
public charter schools since 2001. Initially this charter network was just one
story among many. But when its first school here, the KIPP DC: KEY Academy ,
began performing better than Northwest Washington
schools with many middle-class children, I made it a regular stop. I also spent time with the network’s
founders, Dave Levin and Mike Feinberg, visited about 40 of their schools and
wrote a book about KIPP, “Work Hard. Be Nice,” published in 2009.
Enhancing the Notebook-WHYY partnership
by Dale
Mezzacappa on Aug 23 2012 Posted in Latest news
WHYY/NewsWorks and the Public School
Notebook are putting new resources into our two-year-old partnership
to provide in-depth coverage of the Philadelphia public schools for print,
radio, and the Web. Education reporter
Ben Herold has become a full-time member of the news staff at WHYY/NewsWorks,
the public media service for the Philadelphia Philadelphia
Bios of candidates slated for 2013 PSBA offices 8/15/2012
At its May 19 meeting
at PSBA Conference Center
Upcoming PSBA Professional Development Opportunities
To register or to learn
more about PSBA professional development programs please visit: www.psba.org/workshops/
2012 PASA-PSBA
School
Registration is Now Open! Hershey Lodge & Convention Center, Hershey, PA
www.psba.org/workshops/school-leadership-conference/
Registration is Now Open! Hershey Lodge & Convention Center, Hershey, PA
www.psba.org/workshops/school-leadership-conference/
EPLC’s 2012 Arts and Education Symposium: Save the Date, Thursday, October
11
Education
Policy and Leadership
Center
Please mark your calendars and plan on joining EPLC, our partners, and
guests on October 11 in Harrisburg Pennsylvania
http://www.aei-pa.org/
NSBA
Federal Relations Network seeking new members for 2013-14
School directors are invited to
advocate for public education at the federal level through the National School
Boards Association’s Federal Relations Network. The National School Boards Association is
seeking school directors interested in serving on the Federal Relations Network
(FRN), its grass roots advocacy program that brings local board members on the
front line of pending issues before Congress. If you are a school director and
willing to carry the public education message to Washington , D.C.
Click here for more information.
National School Boards Association is
seeking school directors interested in serving on the Federal Relations Network
(FRN), its grass roots advocacy program that brings local board members on the
front line of pending issues before Congress. If you are a school director and
willing to carry the public education message to
Click here for more information.
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