Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Haverford School District Business Administrator Richard Henderson provided an updated proposed preliminary 2013-14 school budget to school board officials at a meeting on Jan. 24.
Since their last budget presentation, the school tax levy proposed in the preliminary 2013-14 budget for the Haverford School District has increased from 2.9 percent to a now 3.49 percent or 27.6640 millage rate. Haverford School District Business Administrator Richard Henderson stated that the proposed tax increase and millage rate will most likely be revised. "Once we get to the proposed final [budget], that's when we can really lock and load those numbers," said Henderson. A proposed preliminary budget presentation was held on Jan. 24 before the Haverford School Board with updated, but not final, figures and numbers. "It's early. There's not a whole lot of detailed items that we have available to work with," said Henderson. "State …
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Both Denis Gray and Coleen Bennett were re-elected for another term as president and vice president, respectively, for the Haverford Township Board of School Directors.
At a reorganization meeting on Monday night, the Haverford Township Board of School Directors re-elected their president and vice president. Both Denis Gray and Coleen Bennett were re-elected for another one-year term as president and vice president, respectively. Here's a little more information about Gray and Bennett from the Haverfrod Township School District website: Denis A. Gray Denis A. Gray was elected president of the Haverford Township Board of School Directors in 1999. A long-time resident of the township, Gray is a Haverford High School graduate. He earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from St. Joseph's University and after graduating from the Widener University School of Law, began working as an attorney in both Delaware …
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Four Haverford School District teachers were recently recognized for their years of service at a school board meeting.
Four Haverford School District teachers were recently recognized for their 25 years of service to the school district at a school board meeting on Nov. 15. Teachers honored at the meeting included Haverford Middle School math teacher Michael Braverman and fourth-grade teacher at Chatham Park Elementary School Patricia Hardy. Ronna Scheier, counselor at Haverford Middle School, and Mark Wangberg, art teacher at Haverford High School, were not present but recognized. "These four teacher have stayed the course and invested thousands of hours to the lives of our children," said Superintendent William Keilbaugh at the school board meeting. As part National Education Week, teachers are recognized by the school district for outstanding work and …
Thursday, November 8, 2012
A presentation on the implications and the consequences of the Keystone exams was presented to parents and school board members at a meeting on Nov. 1.
Should the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) approve the Keystone exams, every public high school student in the state will be required to take course-ending exams. Those exams, starting with the current eighth-grade class, will also be a requirement to graduate from high school. "The Keystone exams are end-of-course assessments designed to evaluate proficiency in academic content. The exams are designed to measure the state’s Common Core Standards, which, a PDE document states, are aligned toward college and workplace success," according to the PDE. Assistant Superintendent Nicholas Rotoli presented the public and school board with the implications and the consequences of the Keystone exams at the last school board meeting on …
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
A second reading on Haverford School District's anti-bullying policy was taken place at a school board meeting on Oct. 18.
As part of Haverford School District's Restorative Practices and Safe Schools reporting, the school district is required to have a standalone policy on bullying. Though the district's bullying policy was under the umbrella of the Unlawful Harrassment policy, the anti-bullying policy must now be a standalone policy. Valerie Burnett, director of pupil services of the Haverford School District, said at last Thursday's school board meeting, the district's Restorative Practices will be "encompassed into the district's responses to bullying." Once the anti-bullying policy has been approved, school officials will then look at the Unlawful Harrassment policy and remove the original anti-bullying practices from that policy creating two separate …
Thursday, October 11, 2012
The Haverford School Board reflected on the results of the 2011-12 PSSA results at a school board meeting on Oct. 4.
Although Haverford School District made AYP for 2012, Haverford High School did not. In fact, Haverford High School was among 12 high schools in Delaware County who did not make AYP for 2012. But, Haverford Superintendent William Keilbaugh stated that Haverford High School's math and reading combined PSSA scores are actually stronger than 83 percent of Pennsylvania high schools' combined PSSA scores, according to schooldigger.com. In addition, Haverford High School students increased their PSSA scores by 7.7 percent in math and by 4.2 percent in reading over the last two years, according to Keilbaugh. But due to the ever-increasing AYP targets, Haverford High School did not make AYP for 2012. Since the high school is now in School …
Monday, March 5, 2012
The grants allow the schools to decide how to spend $10,000.
The Haverford Township School District Education Foundation recently awarded $10,000 grants to each of the township’s five elementary schools to fund projects of the schools’ choosing for the 2012-2013 school year, School Board President Denis Gray said during a board meeting on Thursday night. The elementary schools are the recipients of the Education Foundation’s first School Empowerment Grants. “We really want to thank the foundation for what they do,” Gray said. Each school was allowed to decide how to spend its $10,000 grant, Gray said. The Manoa Elementary School will use the grant to pay for a year-long, school-wide engineering program, the Development for Robotics Engineering and Enrichment (DREEM), Gray said. The Chatham Park …
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