From the BCCT.
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
BOROUGH OF MORRISVILLE
SCHOOL DISTRICT
The School District of Borough of Morrisvile is requesting bids for Food Service Management Service for the 2009-2010 school year. Specifications may be obtained from the Business Office, School District of Borough of Morrisville, 550 West Palmer Street, Morrisville, PA 19067, 215-736-5933. Proposals are to be submitted in a sealed envelope marked with the item being bid to the attention of Paul W. DeAngelo, Business Administrator.
Bids must be received no later than 9:00 Tuesday, April 7, 2009, at which time they will be opened publicly in Conference Room F-10 of the Middle/Senior High School. A mandatory Walk-Thru Meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 26 at 2:00 p.m. in Conference Room F-10 of the High School.
Marlys Mihok
Board Secretary
Saturday, March 14, 2009
"Public education must be a top priority"
From the Inquirer.
Editorial: Obama's Plan
Fixing the schools
Posted on Fri, Mar. 13, 2009
President Obama may have the right lesson plan to finally fix the country's failing schools. In his first major speech on education, Obama fulfilled a campaign pledge to initiate a long-overdue overhaul of the public education system.
The president put all stakeholders on notice that he plans to make sweeping changes at every level, from kindergarten to college.
In his boldest moves, Obama wants to link teachers' pay to student performance and expand the number of charter schools. Those issues go to the heart of what is wrong with the public education system: Too many schools are straddled with bad teachers and too many students with no other choice are stuck in failing schools.
His positions on merit pay and charters put Obama at odds with many in the Democratic Party and with one of its most powerful constituents, the teachers unions, which have cautiously endorsed the plan, for now.
The plan announced Tuesday offered few specifics on what performance pay would mean for teachers. It should mean rewarding the best teachers with more money when they improve student achievement.
Republicans will like Obama's support for more charters but are likely to oppose spending $5 billion to expand early childhood education, even though preschool and kindergarten have yielded proven results.
Obama is on point in calling for states to lift rules that limit the number of charter schools. Philadelphia's experience, with some charters being investigated for mismanagement and misspending, shows oversight is critical. But charters do offer students a viable alternative when regular schools are sorry.
Obama's education speech didn't sit well with critics who say he should focus solely on trying to jump-start the recession economy. But the president is right to not put off an education agenda that is less about politics and more about doing what is best for students.
Public schools will get about $100 billion in new funding under the economic-stimulus package. Obama's education plan stresses accountability and urges states to set more rigorous, uniform academic standards.
The president also suggested longer school days and an extended school year. That would bring the United States in line with Asian countries, where students are performing better academically.
In making his remarks at the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Obama acknowledged the obstacles facing Latino students, who have a 50-percent dropout rate in most cities, including Philadelphia. Black students are leaving school prematurely at a similar alarming rate.
Obama must still deal with the 2002 federal No Child Left Behind law, which was not addressed in his speech. The law should either be reauthorized with some changes, including adequate funding, or replaced with another measure that similarly holds schools accountable and requires states to test students annually in language arts and math.
Even in difficult economic times, public education must be a top priority. It's good to see Obama knows that.
Editorial: Obama's Plan
Fixing the schools
Posted on Fri, Mar. 13, 2009
President Obama may have the right lesson plan to finally fix the country's failing schools. In his first major speech on education, Obama fulfilled a campaign pledge to initiate a long-overdue overhaul of the public education system.
The president put all stakeholders on notice that he plans to make sweeping changes at every level, from kindergarten to college.
In his boldest moves, Obama wants to link teachers' pay to student performance and expand the number of charter schools. Those issues go to the heart of what is wrong with the public education system: Too many schools are straddled with bad teachers and too many students with no other choice are stuck in failing schools.
His positions on merit pay and charters put Obama at odds with many in the Democratic Party and with one of its most powerful constituents, the teachers unions, which have cautiously endorsed the plan, for now.
The plan announced Tuesday offered few specifics on what performance pay would mean for teachers. It should mean rewarding the best teachers with more money when they improve student achievement.
Republicans will like Obama's support for more charters but are likely to oppose spending $5 billion to expand early childhood education, even though preschool and kindergarten have yielded proven results.
Obama is on point in calling for states to lift rules that limit the number of charter schools. Philadelphia's experience, with some charters being investigated for mismanagement and misspending, shows oversight is critical. But charters do offer students a viable alternative when regular schools are sorry.
Obama's education speech didn't sit well with critics who say he should focus solely on trying to jump-start the recession economy. But the president is right to not put off an education agenda that is less about politics and more about doing what is best for students.
Public schools will get about $100 billion in new funding under the economic-stimulus package. Obama's education plan stresses accountability and urges states to set more rigorous, uniform academic standards.
The president also suggested longer school days and an extended school year. That would bring the United States in line with Asian countries, where students are performing better academically.
In making his remarks at the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Obama acknowledged the obstacles facing Latino students, who have a 50-percent dropout rate in most cities, including Philadelphia. Black students are leaving school prematurely at a similar alarming rate.
Obama must still deal with the 2002 federal No Child Left Behind law, which was not addressed in his speech. The law should either be reauthorized with some changes, including adequate funding, or replaced with another measure that similarly holds schools accountable and requires states to test students annually in language arts and math.
Even in difficult economic times, public education must be a top priority. It's good to see Obama knows that.
"A strong commitment to save their schools"
From The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas
Greenland Schools Continue To Work Toward Fiscal Stability
New sales tax revenue will help restore long-term year-end balance
Last updated Wednesday, March 11, 2009 7:22 PM CDT in News
By Rose Ann Pearce
THE MORNING NEWS
GREENLAND -- The sales tax revenue earmarked for the Greenland School District will help stabilize the district finances beyond 2010 but probably won't get the school district off the state's fiscal distress list any sooner.
Julie Johnson Thompson, public information director for the Arkansas Department of Education, said voter support of the sales tax issue will have a positive impact when the state education department staff and the State Board of Education receive another quarterly report from Greenland in April.
Greenland Superintendent Roland Smith said it was doubtful the state would remove the district from fiscal distress earlier than the two-year timeframe allowed by state law. The state removed the Greenland School Board and took control of the district in June 2008. Once in fiscal distress, a school district is expected to get its finances in order in two years.
Smith has consistently said he believes Greenland can do that.
While voters wrapped up voting Tuesday, Smith met with about 60 patrons at Greenland High School, telling them he continues to believe the district will end the current fiscal year on June 30 with a balance of $150,000 and projected that could climb to about $400,000 by the end of the next fiscal year on June 30, 2010.
The goal for the district is to get the ending balance back to $800,000, the same level as 10 years ago before the district began sliding financially. The state education department generally recommends a school district have an ending balance between 7 percent and 10 percent of its budget.
"We have no intention to spend the sales tax. It will be put in reserve to build it back," Smith said, noting the sales tax proposal has not been a part of the district's financial planning.
The district is expected to receive about $100,000 a year for two years from the sales tax approved Tuesday. By a margin of 134 to 28, voters extended by two years a sales tax, set to expire in June. The tax was originally used for sewer improvement.
Smith noted voters in the city and the school district have, in the last nine months, approved a sales tax, a millage increase and a bond refinancing for building repairs and new buses.
"That indicates a strong commitment to save their schools," he said.
Greenland Schools Continue To Work Toward Fiscal Stability
New sales tax revenue will help restore long-term year-end balance
Last updated Wednesday, March 11, 2009 7:22 PM CDT in News
By Rose Ann Pearce
THE MORNING NEWS
GREENLAND -- The sales tax revenue earmarked for the Greenland School District will help stabilize the district finances beyond 2010 but probably won't get the school district off the state's fiscal distress list any sooner.
Julie Johnson Thompson, public information director for the Arkansas Department of Education, said voter support of the sales tax issue will have a positive impact when the state education department staff and the State Board of Education receive another quarterly report from Greenland in April.
Greenland Superintendent Roland Smith said it was doubtful the state would remove the district from fiscal distress earlier than the two-year timeframe allowed by state law. The state removed the Greenland School Board and took control of the district in June 2008. Once in fiscal distress, a school district is expected to get its finances in order in two years.
Smith has consistently said he believes Greenland can do that.
While voters wrapped up voting Tuesday, Smith met with about 60 patrons at Greenland High School, telling them he continues to believe the district will end the current fiscal year on June 30 with a balance of $150,000 and projected that could climb to about $400,000 by the end of the next fiscal year on June 30, 2010.
The goal for the district is to get the ending balance back to $800,000, the same level as 10 years ago before the district began sliding financially. The state education department generally recommends a school district have an ending balance between 7 percent and 10 percent of its budget.
"We have no intention to spend the sales tax. It will be put in reserve to build it back," Smith said, noting the sales tax proposal has not been a part of the district's financial planning.
The district is expected to receive about $100,000 a year for two years from the sales tax approved Tuesday. By a margin of 134 to 28, voters extended by two years a sales tax, set to expire in June. The tax was originally used for sewer improvement.
Smith noted voters in the city and the school district have, in the last nine months, approved a sales tax, a millage increase and a bond refinancing for building repairs and new buses.
"That indicates a strong commitment to save their schools," he said.
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