Community Matters

Much like the last TE School Board meeting on May 13, the audience was filled with residents and staff, including aides, paraeducators, paraprofessionals, teachers and TENIG members … the outcome of the evening more suited for black roses than white ribbons! The same 9-0 Board vote to cut the weekly hours of aides and paras [...]

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The monthly TESD Facilities Committee meetings are held at a time that makes it difficult for many to attend – Friday at 2 PM, and the Friday, June 15 attendance proved the point.   Ray Clarke attended the comittee meeting with 3 other residents and provided the his notes for Community Matters.  In addition, I spoke with [...]

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This post is offered as clarification regarding the ‘outsourcing alternative’ strategy that Neal Colligan prepared for the TE School Board’s consideration and the receipt of the document . On June 4, Neal sent the following email to the school board at the District email address (schoolboard@tesd.net ) with the outsourcing alternative document attached. (I was [...]

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Now that the dust begins to settle on yesterday’s announcement that the TE School District will not outsource jobs of aides, paraeducators and substitute teachers for the 2013/14 school year, residents and employees are again left with more questions than answers. My initial reaction upon hearing the news that 260 District jobs were saved from [...]

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The TE School Board held an executive meeting last night and have decided against outsourcing of aides, paraeducators and substitute teachers for the 2013-14 school year!  This is great news for the District’s children and their families, the employee and the school district community! Below is the email from the Kevin Buraks to the employees: [...]

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The decision about outsourcing the aides, paraeducators and substitute teachers should not only be about money.  It should be about doing what’s right — these employees are part of our community and deserve to be treated fairly.  The outsourcing sales pitch may seem like the answer but it’s not a panacea.  I hope that the [...]

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The TE School District is currently exploring outsourcing the jobs of all aides, paraeducators and substitute teachers in our School District. It saddens me that vulnerable, dedicated employees have become the school district pawns, at the mercy of the School Board and the administration.  ‘To outsource or not to outsource’ and the future of approximately [...]

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The troubling stories of intimidation by the TE School District administration continue, as does the School Board’s silence regarding this issue.  After “As I See It: Tredyffrin Easttown School District … Intimidation to Silence” appeared in Main Line Suburban, I received additional phone calls and emails from former and current District employees, describing our schools [...]

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The tennis courts at Valley Forge Middle School received their reprieve at last night’s Zoning Hearing Board.  After 4+ hours of listening to various appeals, finally at 11 PM, the TE School District presented its case for a variance that would permit the additional parking spaces and keep the tennis courts.  The combined impervious coverage [...]

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I am not writing today based on an isolated email from a disgruntled school district employee.  I wish that were the case.  Phone calls, text messages and emails have come to me from teachers, paraeducators, custodians, kitchen workers, support staff and aides all painting an eerily similar picture of the work environment inside our award-winning [...]

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