With Video. Pottsgrove’s teachers’ union members made it clear Tuesday to school directors they were unhappy with an alleged lack of progress on labor agreement negotiations since accepting a one-year wage freeze in May.
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Teachers Challenge Pottsgrove Board: ‘Return To Talks’
Posted on 14 September 2011.
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Pottsgrove Model For Budget Force Gets Earlier Start
Posted on 31 August 2011.
West Chester schools, which provided the Pottsgrove School District with its model last year for a community budget task force, will convene a new task force and launch next year’s budget process extra early … in mid-September.
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School Voucher Users Must Pass Tests, State Suggests
Posted on 05 August 2011.
The state’s education secretary said Wednesday that if school choice vouchers ever win Legislative approval, children whose families use them must be prepared to take and pass Pennsylvania’s standardized tests.
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After The Budget, Pottsgrove Directors Bat Clean-Up
Posted on 06 July 2011.
Passing a 2011-2012 budget was last week’s big deal in the Pottsgrove School District, but as usual it was accompanied by other approvals like add-on taxes, appointing tax collectors and banks, and designating a solicitor.
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Unlike Pottsgrove, Most Districts (So Far) Avoid Freeze
Posted on 01 July 2011.
Pottsgrove is among only 8 percent of Pennsylvania school districts that instituted a district-wide pay freeze during 2011-2012, and among only 29 percent that imposed a freeze on any employees.
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PA Legislators Work To Reform Schools’ Taxing Abilities
Posted on 01 July 2011.
Pennsylvania legislators late Thursday night were getting closer to significantly changing school districts’ ability to increase property taxes.
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Pottsgrove Task Force, Good Idea Copied, Copied Again
Posted on 30 June 2011.
“There’s no such thing as an original thought,” an old saying goes. The Pottsgrove School District’s budget task force wasn’t original, but it was helpful. Now others are copying the model too.
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Of 7 Final Budget Choices, Pottsgrove Landed In Middle
Posted on 29 June 2011.
As the Pottsgrove school board considered its 2011-2012 final budget options Monday night, a bare majority of its members decided to take a middle-of-the-road approach.
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PA School Voucher Bills Seem To Run Out Of Time
Posted on 28 June 2011.
A bill instituting school choice vouchers, advocated by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, may not be passed by the state Legislature before it adjourns for the summer.
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Pottsgrove OKs Final Budget: 1.8% Tax Hike, About $74
Posted on 28 June 2011.
The Pottsgrove School District’s $57.3 million 2011-2012 final budget was approved Monday in a 5-4 vote. It carries a 1.8-percent tax increase that will cost the average home owner an additional $74 next year.
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