Bill Text: PA HR11 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designating January 2009 as "School Director Recognition Month" in Pennsylvania.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 58-31)

Status: (Passed) 2009-01-27 - Adopted [HR11 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HR11-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 9
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No. 11 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY STERN, ARGALL, BAKER, BARRAR, BEAR, BELFANTI, BENNINGHOFF, BEYER, BOYD, BROOKS, CALTAGIRONE, CLYMER, COHEN, CONKLIN, CREIGHTON, DALLY, DELOZIER, DONATUCCI, EVERETT, FAIRCHILD, FLECK, FREEMAN, GABLER, GEIST, GIBBONS, GILLESPIE, GINGRICH, GODSHALL, GRELL, GROVE, GRUCELA, HARHAI, HARHART, HARPER, HELM, HENNESSEY, HESS, HICKERNELL, HUTCHINSON, KORTZ, KOTIK, KULA, LONGIETTI, MAJOR, MANN, MARKOSEK, MARSICO, McCALL, MELIO, MENSCH, MILLARD, MILLER, MILNE, MOUL, MUNDY, MUSTIO, O'NEILL, PALLONE, PEIFER, PICKETT, QUIGLEY, QUINN, RAPP, READSHAW, REICHLEY, ROCK, ROEBUCK, ROSS, SAINATO, SANTONI, SCAVELLO, SIPTROTH, K. SMITH, SONNEY, STEVENSON, SWANGER, TALLMAN, VULAKOVICH, WALKO, WATSON, WHITE AND TRUE, JANUARY 26, 2009
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, JANUARY 26, 2009
A RESOLUTION
Designating January 2009 as "School Director Recognition Month"
in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, Local school districts and their governing boards
were established by the General Assembly more than 150 years
ago; and
WHEREAS, Public education is the only public service mandated
by the Constitution of Pennsylvania; and
WHEREAS, School board members govern individual school
districts, establish local policies, approve educational
programs, provide necessary physical facilities, hire properly
certified professional and classified employees and share in
costs by raising necessary local funds used along with State
funds to operate district educational programs; and
WHEREAS, Being an effective school director is no easy task,
particularly in the current climate of school change; and
WHEREAS, Today's lay school leaders need to be knowledgeable
about many complex educational and social issues; and
WHEREAS, School board service is perhaps the purest form of
grass roots democratic principles upon which our republic was
founded; and
WHEREAS, Local public school directors are dedicated,
educated, responsible citizens who carry out the truest form of
representative government in our democracy, volunteer public
service; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives designate the
month of January 2009 as "School Director Recognition Month" in
Pennsylvania; and be it further
RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be immediately
transmitted to the Pennsylvania School Boards Association.
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