PRINTER'S NO. 3736
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
863
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY SONNEY, BIZZARRO, BOBACK, BROWN, BURNS, CIRESI,
SCHLEGEL CULVER, DONATUCCI, GAINEY, GLEIM, GREINER,
HENNESSEY, HILL-EVANS, KIM, KINSEY, KORTZ, MALAGARI,
McCARTER, MENTZER, MILLARD, MURT, NEILSON, PICKETT, READSHAW,
RYAN, SCHLOSSBERG, SCHMITT, STAATS, THOMAS, WARREN, WHEELAND
AND WILLIAMS, MAY 12, 2020
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, MAY 12, 2020
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing the 125th anniversary of the Pennsylvania School
Boards Association.
WHEREAS, The General Assembly established school boards under
the Free School Act of 1834 to ensure that responsibility for
the daily operation of public schools was vested in local
elected officials who are accountable to the communities they
serve; and
WHEREAS, The Pennsylvania School Boards Association was
established in 1895 by school directors from across this
Commonwealth as the first Statewide association of school
directors in the nation; and
WHEREAS, The Pennsylvania School Boards Association is
pledged to the highest ideals of local lay leadership for the
public schools of the Commonwealth; and
WHEREAS, The Pennsylvania School Boards Association has
provided distinguished service to school directors for 125 years
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