Sep 20
Heather NicholasBensalem School Board, District News, General Information, Uncategorized
The 2011-2012 school year has begun and we are now in full swing. Back to school nights are going well and we are all looking forward a an excellent year.
Some recent articles regarding our schools:
We also were proud to announce that ALL 9 of our schools made AYP this year. We still have hard work to do and we hope to have all nine in the same position next year. Thank you to all of our teachers, administration, students, parents, and everyone else who has helped us get to this point.
May 20
Heather NicholasBensalem Schools Information, District News
District Elementary Spelling Bee
The second annual Bensalem Township School District Elementary Spelling Bee will take place on Thursday, June 2, 2011 beginning at 6:30 p.m. at Russell C. Struble Elementary School, 4300 Bensalem Boulevard in Bensalem.
Thirty-one fifth and sixth grade Bensalem elementary students will be participating. The Spelling Bee will begin with easy words selected from the Bensalem Spelling List compiled by teachers, and will move to more difficult words.
The Spelling Bee is sponsored by the Just for the Kids Education Foundation.
May 05
Heather NicholasJust for Fun / Things To Do
It is time once again to sign up kids for the free bowling at AMF lanes. If you sign up the kids get up to two games of bowling per day of FREE bowling. This come in handy when it is raining or too hot to be outside. Bristol Pike Lanes does participate in this promotion. You can sign up online at http://freebowling.amf.com/search-results.aspx?q=19020.
For anyone at the Just For The Kids Buzz-A-Thon, they were handing out information for this program while we were there.
May 02
Heather NicholasUncategorized
Philly Burbs Article: Summit Helps Empower Girls with ADHD
Visit them directly at www.adhdaware.org!
Apr 27
Heather NicholasUncategorized
The vote on whether or not to extend the FDK pilot program will be in May. The tab at the top is full of pictures of our FDK students at work as well as some videos. It is password protected because this is not a district site and I feel it is safer for those students whose faces are shown. This is for the other board members to see some of what I saw while out visiting the FDK classrooms. I hope everyone understands. 
Apr 11
Heather NicholasEducational Information
PSBA has released the following in response to the arguments offered by voucher proponents on issues related to accountability, cost and constitutionality. To read the information, clikc here: PSBA – Issue: Vouchers
Apr 11
Heather NicholasEducational Information
(April 11, 2011) — According to a recent public opinion poll, most Pennsylvanians feel private schools must meet certain accountability standards if they take public tax dollars in the form of tuition vouchers. To see the full press release, click on the link above,
Mar 31
Heather NicholasEducational Information, News Article, Other Local Districts
No, it is not what you think. I am not promoting the idea of the online cyber schools that are throughout the state. I do find it interesting that a local district has started their own cyber school and done it in a way to save money. Check out the courier article on Quakertown School District here: Cyber School’s Success …
Mar 25
Heather NicholasBudget, District News
As many of you may have heard by now we not only need to make up our original deficits, but we now have an additional $3 + million dollars to make up. I was hopeful that we may be able to get our budget down to a zero increase until Gov. Corbett announced his budget proposal. This left us with an even greater gap than anticipated. Of the $5 + million dollar gap $2+ million of that was due to the ARRA (Stimulus) funding we are not going to receive. I do not count that because we knew we would not have that money going into the next school year.
Notable points from our meeting on Wednesday, March 23rd:
- The Administration is NOT going to recommend a change to the 6th grade gifted program. They are going to hire another gifted teacher due to our increase in gifted students.
- Full Day Kindergarten is in jeopardy due to the cuts at the state level. The program is a pilot program we have essentially been testing using funds received through the Accountability Block Grant (ABG). The program was approved for two years (2010/11 and 2011/12) as long as we had the ABG money from the state.
- A resident asked about the PARX Casino tax appeal money. Our solicitor mentioned we can not comment on the matter at this time.
You can review the presentation from the budget meeting here: March 23rd Power Point
To review the previous 2011-2012 budget information, go here: 2011-2012 Budget Development
Mar 15
Heather NicholasGeneral Information, News Article, Other Local Districts
Quakertown – Reaction from Pennsbury and Neshaminy officials was hopeful. One termed the Quakertown deal a “significant milestone” for future teacher talks in Bucks County.
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