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Tredyffrin Easttown School District is struggling with the budget crisis much as other school districts across the state and the country.  Serious budget issues escalated last month with Gov. Tom Corbett’s proposed budget, which contained massive cuts to public education funding.  School districts nationwide are looking for ways to balance their budgets in the face [...]

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T/E Teachers Union Offers Salary Freeze . . . TESD Rejects Offer, Wants Pay Increase Waiver http://j.mp/loTOLe via @AddToAny

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T/E Teachers Union Offers Salary Freeze . . . TESD Rejects Offer, Wants Pay Increase Waiver http://j.mp/loTOLe via @AddToAny #

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Thank you to Larry Feinberg, keystonestateeducationcoalition.org for the following update on the proposed school voucher legislation.  Sounds like SB 1 is ‘unstalled’ and is moving forward again. HI Pattye – Here’s the latest update on the voucher bill SB1: Allentown Morning Call Capitol Ideas Blog John Micek, April 27, 5:49 p.m. Senate Repubs, Corbett Reach Agreement On [...]

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Late Wednesday, the Philadelphia School District announced that 16% of the district’s 24,000 employees . . . or 3,820 positions might be eliminated.  The district has a shortfall of $629 million and estimates they will need to severely reduce the work force to meet the deficit. A budget for the district must be approved by [...]

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Gov. Corbett’s plan to de-fund public education in Pennsylvania in his proposed $1.2 billion funding cuts is becoming the backdrop for school district budget discussion statewide. Corbett’s education-funding proposal has left many communities wondering how they are going to make up their budget deficits and are looking to the teachers and non-instructional workers for help. [...]

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I attended last night’s School Board meeting, primarily for the presentation from Market Street Sports Group, a marketing advertising company from Lancaster County specializing in event sponsorships and ‘naming rights’ opportunities.  Two Market Street representatives, Frank Hoke and Tracey Brubaker, explained that they have worked with various school districts using Hempfield School District in Lancaster County [...]

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The Pennsylvania Primary Election is 30 days from tomorrow — Tuesday, May 17, 2011.  As was previously announced on April 11, I will provide all the candidates resumes on Community Matters using the following schedule. I hope that by providing in-depth information on local candidates will encourage increased voter turnout for the Pennsylvania Primary Election.  Historically, voter turnout in Tredyffrin Township has been low [...]

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On the anniversary of the blowout of BP’s deepwater oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, there is another fuel spill – this time much closer to home. Near Canton, PA thousands of gallons of chemical laced water has spilled due to a blowout at a natural gas well.  Workers from Chesapeake Energy Corp. lost [...]

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Whether you lean to the left, to the right, or somewhere in between, there are periodicals dedicated to your political point of view . . . The New Republic, Harper’s, New Yorker plus countless others. However, did you know that there is a magazine dedicated to the Tea Party movement, the Tea Party Review?  Billing [...]

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