UCF formally moves to investigate school start times

Timeline, study process formally adopted in district goals By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times EAST MARLBOROUGH — The framework of a process to look at potentially changing the start time for high school and middle school students in the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District as soon as the 2017-18 school year was more formally laid out during Monday night’s Board of Education meeting. The investigation...

UCF board opts to pull funds from reserve, cut tax hike to 2.66%

Lindner: colleagues are ‘kicking the can down the road’ By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times EAST MARLBOROUGH — Apparently, appearances matter. At the end of the day, it seemed that the optics of having a tax increase higher than 3% in Delaware County outstripped concerns over long-term finances and the state of the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District’s balance reserve, as the Board...