Community Matters

I attended the T/E Finance Committee meeting last night as did Ray and Carol Clarke.  However, other than one other resident, the 8-10 T/E school district teachers in the audience outnumbered us.  Presumably, as the District begins the teacher contract negotiation process, there will be a continued presence at school district meetings from the teachers [...]

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There was a T/E Finance Committee meeting last night and although the entire school board was present, the Finance Committee is Betsy Fadem (Chair), Kevin Buraks, Jim Bruce and Rich Brake. There were several interesting discussion items for me – Ray Clarke’s notes follow mine.  There was much discussion about the school district’s decreasing real [...]

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Today’s post includes notes from the Board of Supervisors and T/E School Board meetings held last night. Although a prior commitment prevented me from attending last night’s BOS and school board meeting, Ray and Carol Clarke attended the meetings and graciously forwarded their notes.  I attended a TMACC (Transportation Management Association of Chester County) meeting [...]

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Monday night is a case where I would like to be in two places at once . . . Tredyffrin’s township finances and the proposed 2012 budget is on the Board of Supervisors agenda at 7:30 PM while the T/E school directors will hold a Finance Committee meeting at 6:30 PM followed by a special [...]

Filed under: Earned Income Tax, Easttown Township, Tredyffrin Easttown School District, Tredyffrin Township | 36 Comments »

Election Day 2011 has now passed and the ‘unofficial’ results are in. The full results for all races can be found at the Chester County website, www.chesco.org. In reviewing the results, all incumbents prevailed in the supervisor and school board races. Other than Karen Cruickshank’s re-election as school board director, it was a clean sweep for [...]

Filed under: Tredyffrin Easttown School District, Tredyffrin Township | 88 Comments »

Election Day is Tuesday and based on campaign mailers, signs and general rhetoric that we were voting on the Earned Income Tax.  The EIT is not an issue for us on Election Day, at least not this election. Much of this campaign discussion on the EIT stems from T/E School Board decision to form a [...]

Filed under: Earned Income Tax, Tredyffrin Easttown School District | 13 Comments »

It has come to be attention that some readers may be confused about the last couple of Community Matters posts and are questioning why Tredyffrin Republican supervisor and school board candidates did not respond to my questions and that the Democratic candidates did. Hope this post will offer clarification. In early October, I sent an [...]

Filed under: Tredyffrin Easttown School District, Tredyffrin Historic Preservation Trust | 16 Comments »

The Unionville-Chadds Ford (UCF) school district and their teachers union have finally agreed on a contract.  The UCF School District teacher’s contract expired June 30, 2010. Based on UCF contract results, any lessons for T/E school district? I have posted periodically about UCF and the ongoing saga between the school board and the teachers union.  [...]

Filed under: Tredyffrin Easttown School District, Tredyffrin Township | 37 Comments »

Monday was township’s budget workshop as well as the T/E School Board meeting.  I attended the school board meeting and fortunately for us, Ray Clarke attended the budget workshop.  Thank you Ray for attending and for providing your notes to Community Matters readers.  The long-range budget and economic situation continues as a major discussion of the school board [...]

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 I read the following update on the Radnor School District in the Main Line Suburban: Assistant superintendent Kim Maguire outlined a plan to the Curriculum Committee that would have all Radnor ninth-, tenth- and eleventh-graders take the PSAT in October with school-district funding and with across-the-board scores allowing teachers to “check for trends [as well as] [...]

Filed under: 2011 Tredyffrin Budget, TE School District, TESD Budget, Tredyffrin Easttown School District | 17 Comments »