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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2013 - 2014
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | August 18, 2014 01:29 PM |
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| From: | Representative Garth D. Everett |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Continuing Professional Education for School or System Leaders |
| I am preparing to introduce legislation that will require the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) to award continuing professional education credit to school administrators for all training required by PDE. Under the Public School Code, all educators holding Pennsylvania certification must complete certain continuing professional education requirements in order to maintain active certification. A school or system leader (including a principal, vice principal, assistant principal, superintendent, assistant superintendent, intermediate unit executive director, assistant intermediate unit executive director or director of an area vocational-technical school) must complete this continuing education requirement by participating in programs approved by PDE as addressing the Pennsylvania school leadership standards. However, due to scheduling difficulties and insufficient space in some programs, school or system leaders sometimes have difficulty completing their required continuing education hours. Although PDE requires school administrators to participate in various training activities, not all of such activities currently satisfy the continuing education requirement. Failure to complete continuing professional education requirements by specific compliance deadlines jeopardizes an educator’s certification. My proposal will require PDE to award continuing professional education credit to school and system leaders for all training activities PDE requires them to complete. By so doing, my bill will alleviate administrators’ concerns about meeting continuing professional education compliance deadlines, while still ensuring that school administrators receive quality and relevant training designed by PDE. Thank you for your consideration. |
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Introduced as HB2490