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Ed Policy Roundup Sept. 15, 2017:
Who can say what 20 years of Pa. charter
schools have taught us?Pennsylvania on edge of missing payments in budget stalemate
AP By MARC LEVY September 14, 2017
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The state government appeared on the edge, for the first known time, of missing a payment as a result of not having enough cash on hand amid a feud over how to patch a $2.2 billion budget gap. Gov. Tom Wolf’s office has not revealed how the Democrat will manage through a cash crunch that he has said will leave his administration unable to pay every bill on time, three months into the fiscal year. Beginning Friday, the state’s main bank account was projected to go below zero. Wolf’s administration has warned the eight insurers that administer benefits for 2.2 million Medicaid enrollees that they may not receive their monthly payments of about $800 million on time. That would force insurers to borrow money to make timely payments to hospitals, physicians and pharmacies that are required by federal law, they say. The state previously has gone through extended budget stalemates in which a governor had limited authority to spend and, as a result, put off payments, such as in 2015. The state also has, by law, postponed large, scheduled payments, by a matter of weeks, as a one-time maneuver to help wipe out a projected deficit, such as in 2014. But Friday was expected to be the first known time that Pennsylvania state government has missed a payment as a result of not having enough cash, state officials said. Wolf has authority to spend, under a nearly $32 billion budget bill lawmakers overwhelmingly passed June 30.
https://apnews.com/d2236bf9a97d4f3f9ebf94703f5d7303
Delco legislators split mostly along party lines on Pa. budget fix
By Kathleen E. Carey, Delaware County Daily Times POSTED: 09/14/17, 8:44 PM EDT | UPDATED: 3 HRS AGO
Staring at a budget deadline that could see the state running out of money, the state House approved a spending plan Wednesday night. But it did nothing to bridge the partisan divide in the state Capitol. State Rep. Alex Charlton, R-165 of Springfield, was the only county legislator to vote against his party as he opposed the legislation. “There were some cuts that were being made and there was some work done to reduce the level of cuts (and) frankly, they weren’t sufficient enough for me,” Charlton said. He said his concerns were with the $100 million cuts made to multi-modal and public transportation funds as well as others made to conservation district funding. “Too many of the constituents in my district rely on SEPTA to go to work,” he said, as he added that funds need to be in place for the state’s Growing Greener programs. State Rep. Margo Davidson, D-164, of Upper Darby, had similar sentiments. “It’s just robbing Peter to pay Paul,” she said. “That’s just not good government ... We have a bunch of transportation and road projects that need to be completed.” State Rep. Stephen Barrar, R-160, of Upper Chichester, liked the spending package. “I thought it was a good proposal and I voted for it,” he said. “I liked the fact that it contained no tax increases ... At this point in time, the state is facing a $2.2 billion deficit and we had extremely difficult decisions to make in asking some of these state agencies to help us pay down these deficits.”
http://www.delcotimes.com/article/DC/20170914/BUSINESS/170919771
Local House Republicans back revenue plan; Rep. Rob Matzie calls it 'worse than usual'
Beaver County Times By J.D. Prose jprose@calkins.com September 14, 2017
A state House Republican revenue package that calls for borrowing $1 billion and shifting money from existing accounts to close a budget shortfall drew support from the three local Republican lawmakers when it passed Wednesday night, but the lone Democrat voted against it. State Rep. Rob Matzie, D-16, Ambridge, said it was an “easy ‘no’ vote” on the $2.2 billion package that passed 103-91. Matzie called the plan “another kick-the-can-down-the-road effort by House Republicans, but worse than usual.” The GOP plan calls for collecting $1 billion against future revenue from the state’s tobacco settlement fund and shifting money from accounts that Republicans claim will not affect services while Gov. Tom Wolf and Democrats disagree. It also avoids a severance tax on gas drilling, which was included in the previous revenue package passed by the state Senate in July and backed by Wolf. State Rep. Jim Marshall, R-14, Big Beaver, said he struggled with his vote on Wednesday because of the provision calling for using money in reserve accounts. “I wasn’t necessarily happy with the transfer of funds, especially transportation funds,” he said. With his goal being a final budget, though, Marshall said the revenue package “was the only opportunity to get the bill back to (the Senate).” While Marshall allowed that the revenue bill “is not a perfect plan,” he accused opponents of “political maneuvering” when it came to criticizing its merits.
http://www.timesonline.com/news/governmentandpolitics/local-house-republicans-back-revenue-plan-rep-rob-matzie-calls/article_1a5be572-9987-11e7-ad35-3b65060012fe.html
“Currently, only 6 percent of the entire education budget is funded through this (Fair Funding) formula.”
Officials, activists press for state hearing on racial inequity in Pa. school funding
By Evan Brandt, The Mercury POSTED: 09/14/17, 7:59 PM EDT | UPDATED: 6 HRS AGO
POTTSTOWN >> The people of POWER and the lower-income people they represent want to be heard — and they want to be heard by the right people. That’s why they arranged a press conference Thursday afternoon at Pottstown High School to pressure a politician to keep his promise. Specifically, they want state Sen. John Eichelberger, chairman of the Senate education committee, to hold hearings on the racial disparity in Pennsylvania’s education funding system that one of their researchers uncovered last year.
As Digital First Media reported in April, researcher David Mosenkis was applying Pennsylvania’s newly adopted “fair funding formula” to all education funding to determine how much each district would receive.
http://www.pottsmerc.com/general-news/20170914/officials-activists-press-for-state-hearing-on-racial-inequity-in-pa-school-funding
“Meanwhile, more than 37 percent of the city’s children were living in poverty.”
An 'uncomfortable' life: Philly still America's poorest big city
Alfred Lubrano, Staff Writer Updated: Wednesday, September 13, 2017, 6:44 PM
Philadelphia’s 2016 poverty and deep-poverty rates were statistically the same as in 2015 — 25.7 percent and 12.2 percent, respectively. Meanwhile, more than 37 percent of the city’s children were living in poverty. At the same time, the city defied another national trend: Its median household income — $41,449 —dropped a bit between 2015 and 2016, even as America as a whole saw incomes recovering from the recession and rising from $57,230 to $59,039. The data come from the U.S. Census American Community Survey released Thursday morning. Census figures are adjusted to 2016 dollars. “It’s incredibly disheartening to see that Philadelphia hasn’t shared in the gains seen nationally,” said Kathy Fisher, policy director at the Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger. “And it’s unacceptable that we still have a third of our children growing up in poverty.”
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/philadelphia-census-deep-poverty-poorest-big-city-income-survey-20170914.html?amphtml=y&mobi=true
“Put simply, there is absolutely no study that shows charter schools have improved student outcomes in Philadelphia. … What about lowering the cost of education? Again, there are no studies that provide the data that prove charter schools are run more cost-effectively. Indeed, one of the biggest problems with the charter school law is that school finances are largely opaque.”
Who can say what 20 years of Pa. charter schools have taught us?
by Joel Naroff, FOR THE INQUIRER Updated: SEPTEMBER 15, 2017 — 3:01 AM EDT
Twenty years ago, the Pennsylvania charter school law was signed. Since then, charter schools have been heralded as the savior of the public education system.
Have charter schools improved educational attainment and lowered costs, as so many claim? The answer to those questions and just about every other concerning the impact of charter schools is simple: We have absolutely no idea. And that’s a big problem.
So, what are charter schools? They are publicly funded, privately run schools. Their revenues come out of the budgets of their students’ school districts through a state-mandated funding formula. The amount per student is dependent on the funding level of those districts. Charter schools have more freedom in hiring and spending money. The intention was to allow smaller schools to experiment with different ways to educate students and/or concentrate on a specialty, such as science, math, or arts. That was supposed to improve educational outcomes. The charter school movement, at least when it comes to enrollment, has been extremely successful. In Philadelphia alone, there are 84 brick-and-mortar charters educating about 70,000 students. About 30 percent of the school district’s budget goes to charter schools. As for educational performance, that’s a different story. Put simply, there is absolutely no study that shows charter schools have improved student outcomes in Philadelphia.
http://www.philly.com/philly/business/who-can-say-what-20-years-of-pa-charter-schools-have-taught-us-20170915.html
“The financial problem has grown worse for school districts because the Corbett administration, in 2011, altered the original formula, under which districts had received addition state funding to help cover the stranded cost. The administration ended that $211 million-a-year program to help balance the state budget in the wake of the Great Recession. Lawmakers should restore that funding to help districts cope with the financial impact of charter tuition payments. And the Legislature should commission a study of its own to determine whether charters provide value to students and taxpayers that justify the stranded costs imposed upon school districts.”
School money for nothing?
Hazelton Standard Speaker OPINION / PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
A new study demonstrates convincingly that public school districts never can fully recover from the financial impact of charter schools. But the report by the Philadelphia nonprofit Research for Action does not address the most important question — whether charter schools provide enough value to offset the profound economic impact on conventional districts. Charter schools are public schools. When a public school student transfers to a charter school, most of the public money for that child’s education goes to the charter school as tuition. That would not be a problem for the conventional school if it could reduce its expenses by an equal amount per lost student. But it can’t do that. The difference between the money lost to the charter school and the actual savings to the school district is known as stranded cost.
http://standardspeaker.com/opinion/school-money-for-nothing-1.2242401
PHILLY COUNCILMEMBER GYM RESPONDS TO RFA REPORT ON CHARTER COSTS TO SCHOOL DISTRICT
In Helen Gym, News by PHL Council September 13, 2017
New data shows significant stranded costs cannot be eliminated
Philadelphia, PA September 13, 2017 – Councilwoman Helen Gym (At Large) issued the following statement today in response to the Research For Action (RFA) report on charter costs:
I want to thank Research for Action for their report documenting and explaining in detail what has been readily apparent for years: Pennsylvania’s absurd charter law and inequitable school funding system means unfettered charter school growth is unsustainable. It’s a system that cannibalizes public school districts at the expense of all students. In Philadelphia, unfettered charter school expansion – and in particular the SRC voting to convert public schools to charter – has resulted in more than one-third of students in the charter system. Charter schools are one of the leading cost drivers – and certainly the leading voluntary cost driver – of expenses in the District. This report shows that each additional student in a charter school drives the District further into debt to the tune of $8,000 per student a year at the start, and more than $4,000 per student a year even by year five. The report shows that those stranded costs never go away and are disastrous for school district finances. This is not just a Philadelphia problem. This situation wreaks havoc on any school district, and is especially difficult for smaller public school systems who have a harder time reducing their costs. The problem cannot be resolved by “belt-tightening” by school districts. The report found that the costs of charter expansion persist even when it is assumed that districts will pursue extremely aggressive cost-cutting measures such as extensive layoffs and school closings.
http://phlcouncil.com/councilmember-gym-responds-to-rfa-report-on-charter-costs
School district partnership was a worthwhile experiment
Lancaster Online Editorial by The LNP Editorial Board September15, 2017
THE ISSUE - The Eastern Lancaster County School District will no longer share its superintendent with Columbia’s schools, ending the first such partnership of its kind in the state, LNP reported last week. Superintendent Bob Hollister will return to Elanco full time beginning in January, officials in the Columbia School District announced at a school board meeting Sept. 7. Columbia must now find a new superintendent by Jan. 1. It was a worthwhile experiment. And we hope the fact that it lasted only a year doesn’t discourage future sharing of resources or even consolidation of districts. Columbia school board President Keith Combs told LNP correspondent Anne Marie Steele that he wished the one-year agreement, which began in the summer of 2016, could have been extended to a three-year term to “take advantage of the expertise we’ve received” from Hollister. The reality is that Columbia needed Hollister more than Hollister and Elanco needed Columbia. “Columbia was seeking more of my time, and the Elanco board was not comfortable with having me away more than what we already had in the pilot,” Hollister said. From Elanco’s and Hollister’s perspective, that’s understandable. We’re happy to hear Hollister say that he will remain available as a mentor to Columbia.
http://lancasteronline.com/opinion/editorials/school-district-partnership-was-a-worthwhile-experiment/article_8dcee096-9968-11e7-add9-9feb50e44608.html
“In a city that includes some of Pennsylvania’s highest-performing and lowest-performing schools, some of its most diverse and some of its most segregated, these schools represent opposite ends of this spectrum. “
SRC votes to move SLA to Ben Franklin High School
The sought-after magnet will share space with one of the city's struggling neighborhood high schools
The notebook by Dale Mezzacappa and Avi Wolfman-Arent September 14, 2017 — 9:57pm
The School Reform Commission Thursday night set in motion the process of moving the selective Science Leadership Academy into Benjamin Franklin High School. The vote means that one of the District’s most sought-after magnets will “co-locate” with one of its poorest, most low-performing neighborhood high schools, uniting in the same building two schools that are demographically, instructionally, and culturally very different. The resolution, which passed unanimously without discussion or any comment from commissioners or members of the public, approved a $20 million contract for renovations and upgrades to the Benjamin Franklin building. The co-location will start in the 2019-20 school year. The significance of the vote went largely unnoticed at a meeting in which the public speakers were focused on taunting the SRC members and urging the body to vote itself out of existence so District governance could return to local hands.
http://thenotebook.org/articles/2017/09/14/src-votes-to-move-sla-to-ben-franklin-high-school
Pa.’s new school standard: the next Holy Grail in education? (column)
York Daily Record Opinion by Joel Sears Published 4:49 p.m. ET Sept. 12, 2017
By now, Pennsylvania’s school-aged children are back in class, happily renewing friendships and progressing nicely into more challenging coursework. On the surface, things seem pretty much the same as last year with one notable exception: administrators are preparing for changes in the way students and their school’s performance will be measured, starting next year. For decades, federal guidelines have dictated the accountability framework, making compliance a prerequisite for federal funding. Most of us have heard of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), an ambitious attempt by the federal government to (1) improve academic performance in the United States relative to other developed nations and (2) impose more stringent accountability requirements for the billions of federal education dollars spent by the states.
http://www.ydr.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/09/12/pa-s-new-school-standard-next-holy-grail-education-column/659428001/
Who gains admission to Philly's selective high schools?
Inquirer by Kristen A. Graham, Staff Writer @newskag | kgraham@phillynews.com Updated: SEPTEMBER 14, 2017 — 1:24 PM EDT
Philadelphia’s selective public high schools do not look like other city schools: they have higher percentages of white and Asian students and lower percentages of students living in poverty, learning English and receiving special-education services, according to an analysis by the Pew Charitable Trusts released Thursday. The examination of the Philadelphia School District’s high school selection process for the 2015-16 school year also found that while some students who qualified academically did not gain admission, other students who did not meet admissions standards got in — though that mostly happened in schools where there were leftover seats after all qualified students were given spots. Philadelphia’s high school admission system is complex — there are district schools and charters; neighborhood high schools, which take all students; and two tiers of special admissions: magnet schools, with the most stringent academic and behavioral requirements, and citywide admissions, which still require good grades and test scores and a strong behavioral record.
http://www.philly.com/philly/education/who-gains-admission-to-phillys-selective-high-schools-20170914.html
Pew report highlights disparities in high school selection process
The notebook by Dale Mezzacappa September 13, 2017 — 3:43pm
In findings that come as no surprise, students who are white, Asian, female and not from low-income families are more likely to be admitted and attend the city's most selective high schools than students who are black, Latino, male and poor, according to a new report. But the study from the Pew Charitable Trusts' Philadelphia Research Initiative, which tracked the 2015-16 9th-grade class, did contain a few eye-opening revelations, said author Michelle Schmitt. One is that Latino students with high test scores applied less frequently to get into these programs than high-scoring students from other groups. Compounding that, Latino students with high test scores who did apply were less likely to be admitted, and those who were admitted were less likely to attend.
http://thenotebook.org/articles/2017/09/13/pew-report-highlights-disparities-in-high-school-selection-process
Federal lawsuit alleges race, gender discrimination against Philly school district
FOX29 WXTF POSTED: SEP 12 2017 04:12PM EDT UPDATED: SEP 13 2017 11:15AM EDT
PHILADELPHIA (WTXF) - The School District of Philadelphia is facing a federal class action lawsuit. Some female lacrosse players are claiming they've been discriminated against because of their gender and race. A 2017 Strawberry Mansion High School graduate is currently the face of this action lawsuit for black girls who play what they call the traditional ‘white’ sports of lacrosse and field hockey. Her name is Nadirah McRae. When those sports were first introduced at McRae’s school in 2015, she fell in love. Her academic performance even improved as a result of her newfound passion. For the first time in her life, McRae says she saw path to college. But in her senior year, McRae saw that path cut off. McRae was reportedly unable to claim her Division I scholarship to the University of Hartford because she says the Philadelphia school district keeps girls of color from playing anyone but other mostly black high schools.
http://www.fox29.com/news/class-action-lawsuit-filed-againist-the-school-district-of-philadelphia
Former Strawberry Mansion athlete sues school district over “negro league” discrimination
Philadelphia Weekly by Hayden Mitman | @haydenmitman Sep 13, 2017 Updated 16 hrs ago
As a senior at Strawberry Mansion High School and a star on the school’s girls lacrosse team, Nadirah McRae thought she had it made. Over her high school career, her enthusiasm for the sport had found improvement in her grades and, just before graduation, she received a full athletic scholarship to the University of Hartford complete with an with an alumni grant of nearly $60,000. But, it was not to be. Instead, the 18-year-old McRae saw her hopes to attend the school dashed and her scholarship disappeared after, she alleges, the school district withheld important paperwork that the college had requested. Now, McRae has brought a class action lawsuit against the Philadelphia School District and the School Reform Commission, seeking more than $250,000 in damages from the lost scholarship. In court documents, the suit – filed by attorneys Glenn Ellis and Aaron Freiwald of Philadelphia’s Freiwald Law – is being brought on behalf of McRae and “hundreds of past, present and future African-American female athletes” for the district’s “failure to provide equitable athletic participation opportunities and benefits for African American female students.
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news/former-strawberry-mansion-athlete-sues-school-district-over-negro-league/article_04c174ee-98be-11e7-934d-470af3b202ee.html
McCain, Whitehouse Make Bipartisan Appeal To SCOTUS Against Wisconsin Gerrymandering
“Americans do not like gerrymandering. They see its mischief, and absent a legal remedy, their sense of powerlessness and discouragement has increased.”
Huffington Post By Sam Levine 09/05/2017 06:14 pm ET Updated Sep 06, 2017
Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to uphold a lower court’s ruling that Wisconsin’s electoral maps for the state legislature were unconstitutional. The senators made their argument in a friend of the court brief filed in Gill v. Whitford, a potentially monumental case the Supreme Court is set to hear on Oct. 3. The nation’s highest court has never said whether an electoral map, drawn by state lawmakers every 10 years ― often by the party in power ― can be unconstitutional simply for favoring one party too much over the other. The Supreme Court could make such a determination in the Wisconsin case, which could remake American politics by requiring states to draw maps that put lawmakers in more competitive races. In the brief, McCain and Whitehouse said the case “implicates the effective functioning of American representative democracy.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mccain-whitehouse-wisconsin-gerrymander_us_59af13c3e4b0354e440d7018
House OKs Bill to Slash Education Budget as School Choice Push Loses Out
Education Week Politics K12 Blog By Andrew Ujifusa on September 14, 2017 4:41 PM
The House of Representatives voted Thursday to approve an education funding bill that would cut about $2.3 billion from the U.S. Department of Education, a roughly 3.5 percent reduction from the agency's current budget of $68.4 billion. The House bill funding the department for fiscal year 2018 would eliminate $2 billion in Title II funding for teacher training and class size reduction, and cut $100 million from current spending on after-school aid. (More on that last issue here.) The legislation, which was approved by a 211-198 vote, keeps Title I funding for disadvantaged students flat at about $15.4 billion, and also includes a $200 million increase for special education. It also rejects prominent elements of President Donald Trump's budget proposal, most specifically on school choice—more on that below.
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2017/09/house_education_funding_cuts_school_choice_loses_out.html
Pro-Charter School Group Fined for Alleged Campaign Finance Violations
Education Week By Arianna Prothero on September 13, 2017 11:34 AM
One of the biggest backers of the effort last November to raise the cap on the number of charter schools allowed in Massachusetts has paid more than $425,000 to settle a campaign finance complaint. It's the largest such fine ever collected by the state. Families for Excellent Schools is a pro-charter advocacy group based in New York City that is known for organizing high-profile rallies with Success Academy, the city's largest charter school network. The group was accused by the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance of trying to obscure where the money it donated to the campaign to raise the cap had come from. The ballot question to raise Massachusetts' relatively restrictive charter cap—compared to other states—was the source of a loud and expensive political battle between teachers' unions and pro-charter advocates both locally and nationally. Campaigns for and against the ballot initiative together raised nearly $42 million.
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/charterschoice/2017/09/pro-charter_school_group_fined_for_alleged_campaign_finance_violations.html?cmp=soc-tw-shr
To Create More Diverse Charter Schools, Walton Foundation Kicks In $2 Million
Education Week By Arianna Prothero on September 14, 2017 3:56 PM | No comments
One of the most influential foundations in the charter school sector has announced that it will commit $2.2 million over the next two years to create economically and racially diverse charter schools in New York City. The Walton Family Foundation has already given hundreds of millions to expand the charter school sector and last year committed to spend another $1 billion over the next five years. The foundation will be distributing the money via grants to people launching new schools aimed at recruiting and serving more mixed-income and racially diverse student bodies. Although the foundation's definition of what makes a school diverse will be somewhat flexible, it's looking for schools where no one race or socioeconomic group makes up the majority of the student population. The reason: some research shows that students who attend mixed-income schools perform better academically, the foundation said in a statement. They have higher test scores and are more likely to go on to college after high school.
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/charterschoice/2017/09/to_create_more_diverse_charter_schools_walton_foundation_kicks_in_2_million.html?cmp=soc-twitter-shr
CONSIDER IT: SCHOOL CHOICE AND THE CASES FOR TRADITIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATION AND CHARTER SCHOOLS
September 19 @ 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM Hilton Doubletree Reading
Berks County Community Foundation
Panelists:
Carol Corbett Burris: Executive Director of the Network for Public Education
Alyson Miles: Deputy Director of Government
Affairs for the American Federation for Children
Jonathan Cetel: Founding
executive director of PennCAN
Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig: Professor of Educational
Leadership and Policy Studies and the Director of the Doctorate in Educational
Leadership at California State University Sacramento
Karin Mallett: The WFMZ TV anchor and reporter
returns as the moderator
School choice has been a hot
topic in Berks County, in part due to a lengthy and costly dispute between the Reading School
District and I-LEAD Charter School. The topic has also been in the
national spotlight as President Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy
DeVos have focused on expanding
education choice. With this in mind, a
discussion on school choice is being organized as part of Berks County Community
Foundation’s Consider It initiative. State Sen. Judy Schwank and Berks County
Commissioners Chairman Christian Leinbach are co-chairs of this nonpartisan
program, which is designed to promote thoughtful discussion of divisive local
and national issues while maintaining a level of civility among participants. The next Consider It Dinner will take place
Tuesday, September 19, 2017, at 5 p.m. at the DoubleTree by Hilton Reading, 701
Penn St., Reading, Pa. Tickets are available here.
For $10 each, tickets include dinner, the panel discussion, reading
material, and an opportunity to participate in the conversation.
Using Minecraft to Imagine a Better World
and Build It Together.
Saturday, September 16, 2017 or Sunday,
September 17, 2017 at the University of the Sciences, 43rd & Woodland
Avenue, Philadelphia
PCCY, the region’s most
influential advocacy organization for children, leverages the world’s greatest
video game for the year’s most engaging fundraising event for kids. Join us
on Saturday, September 16, 2017 or Sunday,
September 17, 2017 at the University of the Sciences, 43rd & Woodland
Avenue for a fun, creative and unique gaming opportunity.
Education Law Center’s 2017
Annual Celebration
ELC invites you to join us
for our Annual Celebration on September 27 in Philadelphia.
The Annual Celebration will take place this year on September
27, 2017 at The Crystal Tea Room in Philadelphia. The
event begins at 5:30 PM. We anticipate more than 300 legal,
corporate, and community supporters joining us for a cocktail reception, silent
auction, and dinner presentation. Our
annual celebrations honor outstanding champions of public education. This proud
tradition continues at this year’s event, when together we will salute these deserving
honorees:
·
PNC Bank: for the signature philanthropic cause of the PNC Foundation, PNC
Grow Up Great, a bilingual $350 million, multi-year early education initiative
to help prepare children from birth to age 5 for success in school and life;
and its support of the Equal Justice Works Fellowship, which
enables new lawyers to pursue careers in public interest law;
·
Joan Mazzotti: for her 16 years of outstanding leadership as the Executive
Director of Philadelphia Futures, a college access and success program serving
Philadelphia’s low-income, first-generation-to-college students;
·
Dr. Bruce Campbell Jr., PhD: for his invaluable service to ELC, as he rotates out of
the chairman position on our Board of Directors. Dr. Campbell is an Arcadia
University Associate Professor in the School of Education; and
·
ELC Pro Bono Awardee Richard Shephard of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
LLP: for his exceptional work as pro bono counsel, making lasting contributions
to the lives of many vulnerable families.Questions? Contact Tracy Callahan
tcallahan@elc-pa.org or 215-238-6970 ext. 308.
STAY WOKE: THE INAUGURAL
NATIONAL BLACK MALE EDUCATORS CONVENING; Philadelphia Fri, Oct 13, 2017 4:00 pm
Sun, Oct 15, 2017 7:00pm
TEACHER DIVERSITY WORKS. Increasing the number of Black
male educators in our nation’s teacher corps will improve education for all our
students, especially for African-American boys.
Today Black men represent only two percent of teachers nationwide. This
is a national problem that demands a national response. Come participate in the inaugural National
Black Male Educators Convening to advance policy solutions, learn from one
another, and fight for social justice. All are welcome.
Save the Date 2017 PA Principals Association State Conference
October 14. 15, 16, 2017 Doubletree Hotel Cranberry Township, PA
Save the Date: PASA-PSBA
School Leadership Conference October 18-20, Hershey PA
Registration now open for the
67th Annual PASCD Conference Nov. 12-13
Harrisburg: Sparking Innovation: Personalized Learning, STEM, 4C's
This year's conference will begin on Sunday, November 12th
and end on Monday, November 13th. There will also be a free pre-conference on
Saturday, November 11th. You can
register for this year's conference online with a credit card payment or have
an invoice sent to you. Click here to register for the
conference.
http://myemail.constantcontact.com/PASCD-Conference-Registration-is-Now-Open.html?soid=1101415141682&aid=5F-ceLtbZDs
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Registration Opens Tuesday, September 26, 2017
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