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The teachers union in T/E school district, Tredyffrin Easttown Education Association (TEEA), provided an update on the negotiation process late last night.  The basis for the union’s email was to deliver what the community members have been asking for from TEEA and the school board — transparency. This latest press release from TEEA is comprehensive [...]

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I attended last night’s marathon Board of Supervisors meeting and public hearing continuation on the Trout Creek Overlay district.  For the first 20 minutes, Keene Hall was overflowing with a standing room only crowd to witness the swearing-in of Tredyffrin’s new Superintendent of Police Tony Giaimo.  Family, friends, co-workers and elected officials from the community [...]

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Click here to see the draft on the 2012-13 final budget of TESD to be presented at tonight’s school board meeting – 7:30 PM, TESD administration office, 940 West Valley Road, Suite 1700, Wayne.  Click here for the agenda.  Thanks to Community Matters reader Roberta Hotinski for providing the updated information and link from the [...]

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Between the final tweaking of the District budget for 2012-13 and the continuing teacher contract negotiations, it is timely that the US News & World Report releases its list of the best high schools in America.  The publication reviewed test data from 22,000 public high schools and 500 schools received the highest ‘gold’ level award.  [...]

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Have you ever attended a meeting where you left shaking your head in confusion and wondering exactly what was decided?  Last night’s Finance Committee meeting of the school district was that kind of meeting for me.  I would think it was just me, except that following up with Ray Clarke, who also attended the meeting; [...]

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Here’s the question for the day: Why is it that Tredyffrin Easttown School District has the largest fund balance in the state ($32 million) and is the only school district giving serious discussion to ‘demotion of professional staff’ to fund the $1.5 million budget deficit? There are those that suggest that the idea of demotion [...]

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The teachers union in T/E School District, Tredyffrin Easttown Education Association (TEEA) held a members meeting today.  I am assuming that the press released that I just received (below) was a result of their meeting.  The teachers union is coming out strong in opposition to school board using demotion of professional staff as a budget [...]

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Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) the state teachers union recently released a study, Sounding the Alarm, which looks at the financial crisis in school districts across the states.  The paper examines how districts are being forced to cut educational programming to meet the demands of school budgets because of the public schools financial crisis. The [...]

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The following Community Matters post, “Signed, Sealed and Delivered … Radnor Twp School District & Teachers Union Ink 3-year Contract with Salary Increase … Is there handwriting on the wall for T/E Teachers?”  is from March 23, 2011. A year ago, the Radnor Township School District signed a 3-year contract with their teachers union( RTEA) [...]

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As a bit of history for those that are new readers to Community Matters. When I started this journey 2-1/2 years ago, it was without a personal agenda except to engage the community on important issues and to encourage greater transparency from our elected officials. Transparency implies openness, communication, and accountability; a metaphorical extension of [...]

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