Hatboro-Horsham Recruits Senior Citizens To Volunteer At Elementary School
When students return to one elementary school in the Hatboro-Horsham School District next month, they may be seeing some senior citizens roaming the hallways.
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When students return to one elementary school in the Hatboro-Horsham School District next month, they may be seeing some senior citizens roaming the hallways.
School officials say repairs at the arson-damaged Penn Wood High School in Lansdowne should be complete for the start of classes next month.
The Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia says it has precedent that shows it could work: the Chester-Upland budget crisis.
Sitting under tents, about a hundred parents and noontime aides say the school district needs to rehire the 1,200 noontime aides laid off in July.
Philadelphia's mayor and council president have very different ideas about where to find money for public schools.
Authorities say Masai Skief, 32, as President of the School and Institute, used that position to steal nearly $90,000.
"Champions need a great field to play on," said Mayor Michael Nutter.
State budget secretary Charles Zogby, in a statement, said concessions from the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers must be negotiated before that cash is released.
Public school advocates say while politicians 'bicker' about how the city should come up with $50-million to enable the Philadelphia School District to open classes on time, children deserve more than three-times that amount.
Philadelphia school's Superintendent William Hite addressed the 212 principals who gathered Monday morning for a leadership conference.
Many kids in the region will have a shorter than normal first week back to school due to where the Jewish New Year falls.
"We train parents to be their child's reading teacher at home, using the same strategies teachers use during the school year in the classroom," says founder Alejandro Gac-Artigas.
Mayor Michael Nutter is playing down a rift between himself and City Council president Darrell Clarke over the school funding crisis in the Philadelphia School District.
Thousands of parents and students were at the School of the Future, on Parkside Avenue, for what the district calls a "family and education reunion."
The district is dealing with mold at Cedarbrook Middle School and lead paint at Myers Elementary.
The three students designed an app that reads your pulse, then plays songs appropriate for your heart rate.
The Pennsylvania Department of Education says there's a new GED test in the works, and if you're in the process of taking the current test, you'll need to wrap it up by the end of the year.
The man who has run Florida's university system will become the next chancellor of the Pennsylvania System of Higher Education, which includes West Chester, Cheyney and twelve other state-owned universities.
Pennsylvania is about to replace its GED diploma exam with a new test that's considered to be tougher and a better way to measure college and career preparation.
The 60 categories include "Best-Run College" (Claremont McKenna College), "Best Athletic Facilities" (Kenyon College) and "Best College Library" (Columbia University).
There were numerous assembly lines at Lincoln Financial Field, where volunteers were packing schoolbags with items such as pencils, composition books, and folders.
A southern New Jersey school teacher has admitted having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old student.
With the school year fast approaching, a local group, concerned with safety, announced its plans to hold a "fast" next week in front of District headquarters.
The rankings are based on surveys in which an average of 333 students per campus are asked 80 questions about a range of subjects in the last three school years. Its methodology uses a five-point scale, allowing for school-to-school comparisons.
Their curriculum came pre-loaded onto a brand-new iPad, along with some custom-made apps to help them learn.
