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An Education Revolution In Pa?
BillLawrenceOnline.Com ^ | 3-21-11

Posted on 03/21/2011 2:15:25 PM PDT by Tribune7

Tea Party activist Bob Guzzardi reports that the Pennsylvania State Senate is preparing to unveil, tomorrow, a revolutionary education reform package that could very well make the recent shrieking in Wisconsin by the special-interest child haters sound like whispers.

Among the reforms that Bob says will be addressed in a series of bills will be:

--Empowering school districts to furlough teachers if the economic conditions should warrant it

-- Allowing districts to suspend non-essential reports to the state Department of Education in years state education funding declines

-- Requiring a two-thirds vote by school boards to raise property taxes

--Allowing districts to hire registered nurses rather than school certified nurses

--Changing public advertising requirements to allow the use of the internet

--Allowing school districts to bid single prime on construction projects. (It has been estimated that this will cut construction costs by 10 percent)

--Allowing districts to hire those who have graduate degrees in business or finance as superintendents ending the incestuous education certification requirement.

--Ending the state mandate for 10 paid sick days and paid sabbatical leave for teachers.

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.billlawrenceonline.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: education; pa; reform; teachers; unions; weisconsinshowdown
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To: Tulane

This group of PUBLIC charter schools don’t care if their teachers are accredited by the state either.

http://greatheartsaz.org/

It’s sort of refreshing. Imagine: hiring people who can do the job vs. having to hire union people who may not be up to the job intellectually. Absoluely amazing.


21 posted on 03/21/2011 5:41:25 PM PDT by goldi (')
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To: Dr. Sheldon Cooper

Or a Liberal Arts degree.


22 posted on 03/21/2011 6:38:26 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: Lazlo in PA

“This alone will really put the brakes on these Taj Mahal schools”

Tell me about it; kids seemed ot learn well in small schools.


23 posted on 03/21/2011 6:40:16 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: Lazlo in PA
This alone will really put the brakes on these Taj Mahal schools and the endless spending on special lights on the Field Hockey field and elaborate television production studios when the kids can't even read. I like what the new GOP majority is trying to do here in the PA. Corbett is really doing a nice job to so far. I guess it doesn't take much after the last crook Fast Eddie

Agreed. I will be watching for exploding heads tomorrow.
24 posted on 03/21/2011 6:45:22 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media. There are Wars and Rumors of War.)
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To: familyop

Wow. You sure found the dark cloud in that silver lining.


25 posted on 03/21/2011 6:57:37 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media. There are Wars and Rumors of War.)
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To: Longhair_and_Leather

Thanks for that info - ~ You can home school in any state, but PA ~ among most restrictive ... ~


26 posted on 03/21/2011 9:50:30 PM PDT by Golden Gate
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To: Niuhuru
Or a Liberal Arts degree.

Ah yes, the "Seinfeld" degree.

A degree about nothing.

27 posted on 03/22/2011 5:39:32 AM PDT by Dr. Sheldon Cooper (If Mohammed were alive today, he wouldnÂ’t be allowed to live within 1000 yards of a school.)
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