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Pennsylvania Education
Secretary Ronald Tomalis asks for relief from No Child Left Behind requirements
Published: Thursday, January
12, 2012 , 3:32
In what may be viewed as welcome news to public school
officials struggling to meet No Child Left Behind Act's requirements,
Pennsylvania Education Secretary Ronald Tomalis met this week with U.S.
Secretary Arne Duncan to begin a conversation about freezing the state's
adequate yearly progress targets at this year's levels.
Corbett
suggests possible takeover of Chester
Upland School
District
By Dan Hardy, Inquirer Staff
Writer Posted: Fri, Jan.
13, 2012 , 3:01 AM
Gov. Corbett blamed local
officials Thursday for the Chester
Upland School
District
He made his remarks on a Philadelphia talk-radio show on the same day the Chester
Upland school board and some parents in the 3,700-student Delaware County
Chester
Upland files suit against Pa., Corbett for state funding
Delco Times By JOHN KOPP, jkopp@delcotimes.com
CHESTER
— The Chester Upland School Board and parents filed a lawsuit in federal court
Thursday against the state, the Pennsylvania Department of Education and
various state officials. The suit called on the state to provide the funding
necessary to keep the district running through the fiscal year.
Spencer: Chester Upland
Published: Friday, January 13, 2012
Delco Times Opinion by
By GIL SPENCER gspencer@delcotimes.com
There is a time for all good things
to come to an end. Bad things, too. And that sums up the Chester Upland
School District
District officials have gone begging toHarrisburg
District officials have gone begging to
28
districts and charters cleared in probe of 2009 PSSAs
by Benjamin Herold on Jan 12 2012 for
the Notebook and WHYY/NewsWorks
A handful of school districts
and charter schools across Pennsylvania
Here's the full list of schools
that have been cleared by the Department of Education:
Ambridge Area SD
Belle Vernon
Area SD
Charter HS for Architecture
Chambersburg Area SD
Connellsville Area SD
Dallastown Area SD
Ephrata Area SD
Governor Mifflin SD
Maritime Academy CS
Minersville Area SD
North Schuylkill SD
Northwood Academy CS
Pleasant Valley SD
South Western
SD
Spring-Ford Area SD
Wellsboro Area SD
William Penn SD
Wissahickon CS
Archbishop: “To
put it simply: Vouchers are a matter of parental rights and basic justice.”
Pennsylvania Constitution,
Article III, Section 15 Public school money not available to sectarian schools: “No money raised for the support of the public schools
of the Commonwealth shall be appropriated to or used for the support of any
sectarian school.”
Archbishop Chaput's Weekly Column:
1/12
MyFoxPhilly.com Published :
Thursday, 12 Jan 2012, 8:39 AM
EST
ARCHBISHOP
CHAPUT'S WEEKLY COLUMN:
THOUGHTS
ON THE COMMISSION REPORT, ONE WEEK LATER
Over the
past week, I've received hundreds of emails about the report of our Blue Ribbon
Commission on Catholic Education. The report calls for the closing or merger of
dozens of our archdiocesan schools
……..It's useful to wonder how many of our
schools might have been saved if, over the last decade, Catholics had fought
for vouchers as loudly and vigorously as they now grieve about school closings.
Some Catholics - too many -- seem to find it easier to criticize their own
leaders than to face the fact that they're discriminated against every day of
the year. They pay once for public schools; then they pay again for the
Catholic schools they rightly hold in such esteem. Something's wrong with that
equation. It's important for Catholics to hold the leadership of their Church
accountable. No bishop or pastor should fear that. But Catholics should hold
public leaders - beginning with our elected officials in Harrisburg
“only two factors are significant – Parental Education and
Poverty and those two factors alone can explain the bulk of the differences in
academic achievement.”
Do Higher Teacher Salaries in Philadelphia Area School
Districts Equate to Higher PSSA & SAT Scores?
Community Matters Blog Posted on January 11th, 2012
10:26 AM by Pattye Benson
If you follow Community Matters, you
may recognize Keith Knauss as one of those that regularly comments on school
district issues. Knauss currently serves on the Unionville Chaddsford
School Board and brings first-hand experience, especially when dealing with
teacher negotiations. Knauss prepared a
report for his own school district, which he has graciously offered for
Community Matters readers. He looked at the 61 Philadelphia
Factors Knauss considered included:
- Parental education
- Poverty
- Student to Teacher Ratio
- Spending per Student
- Average Teacher salary
- Average Teacher experience
- Average Teacher degrees
In his analysis of
the data, Knauss uncovered
some interesting results. He discovered that “only
two factors are significant – Parental Education and Poverty and those two
factors alone can explain the bulk of the differences in academic achievement.”
“Finland
This was written by Cathy N. Davidson, a
Duke University
By Cathy N. Davidson
It is fascinating to be
in Hong Kong this week talking with the
nation’s top educational officials and business leaders about new modes of
learning for the digital workplace during the release of a new book by Pasi Sahlberg, a leading
innovator in the Finnish Ministry of Education. Educators in Hong Kong are as
intrigued, inspired, and perplexed by the Finnish educational success story as
those in the United States
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