UCF board continues debate over Chromebooks
Board member questions whether parents should have to pay
By Karen Cresta, Staff Writer, The Times
Although the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District is moving toward standardizing on Chromebooks — like the unit pictured above — for students in sixth through 12th grades, who pays for them, and how they will be used remains a question.
EAST MARLBOROUGH – On Monday night, the Unionville Chadds...
Unionville HS teacher resignation sparks social media furor
District, ex-teacher disagree over why she was investigated
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
A former Unionville-Chadds Ford School District teacher and the schools’ administration have strikingly different accounts of how she came to resign her part-time teaching position at Unionville High School, after a social media furor was touched off last week over what sparked her departure.
Winden Rowe,...
UCF swears in new board directors, give prelim OK to budget draft
EAST MARLBOROUGH — The Unionville-Chadds Ford Board of Education held both its annual reorganization meeting, including the swearing in of five recently elected board directors, as well as a brief regular meeting to close out the calendar year and offer the first passage of a very preliminary 2016-17 budget.
Reelected board directors Carolyn Daniels, Robert Sage, Victor Dupuis, Gregg Lindner and...
Letter: Solution to class size issues in UCF? Redistrict
To The Editor:
The Unionville Chadds Ford School District parents who have expressed concern about overcrowded fifth grade classes at Hillendale Elementary School have exposed a very small tip of a large iceberg. Three of the four elementary schools in the district operate from of 95. 9 % to 105.3% of their design capacities.
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Tension runs high at UCF school board meeting over recent election tactics and classroom size for elementary schools
Interviews to fill vacancy are conducted
By Karen Cresta, Staff Writer, The Times
EAST MARLBOROUGH – The Unionville Chadds Ford (UCF) School Board work session meeting was held on Monday night and lasted over three hours long only to be continued at next week’s work session meeting. It was full of tension as board member Greg Lindner criticized fellow board member Jeff Hellrung on how...
Letter: Do, Lindner rebut Hellrung comments
To the Editor:
We were saddened and, quite frankly bewildered, by Mr. Hellrung’s attack against us and his endorsement of our opponents. The comments expressed are diametrically opposed to comments he has made to us personally. We guess it really is true that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Mr. Hellrung’s letter is ironic for two reasons.
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Letter: Do, Lindner have shown leadership
In June 2012, we relocated to the Philadelphia area with my husband’s company. It was our eighth relocation and we selected our new home based on one criterion, school district. Like many families in the district, we chose the UCFSD above all others based on its record and reputation. To become more involved in our community and my children’s school, I attend school board meetings. As...
Letter: Brookes has conflict of interest
To The Editor:
I am concerned. Being new to Chadds Ford I have been researching my new home and community. I was very disturbed to discover a conflict of interest in the upcoming election. Public officials should be held accountable to the highest standards of ethics and should avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest. Therefore, I question why Beverly Brookes could be considered qualified...
Knauss resigns from UCF school board
Long-time fiscal watchdog steps down
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
Unionville-Chadds Ford School District Board of Education Director Keith Knauss announced his resignation from the school board, Monday.
EAST MARLBOROUGH — Keith Knauss, a vocal voice for fiscal restraint resigned from the Unionville-Chadds Ford Board of Education, Monday.
In a message to his colleagues on the board, Knauss, a...
Letter: UCF proposed budget is outrageous