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Tentative Budget Approval On Pottsgrove

Tentative Budget Approval On Pottsgrove’s Agenda

How much will the total amount to? You can’t tell by looking at the school board agenda online; its dollar value has been left blank, and likely will be filled in at the time of a vote.

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Pottsgrove Corrects Approval Of Its Social Media Policy

Oops! It was a draft, and not the final version, of its electronic communications and social media policy that was approved last month by the Pottsgrove school board. The error has been corrected. Improved, too, an administrator thinks.

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Big Changes Coming Next Year To Pottsgrove MS Math

Students will be able to choose from or be placed in a broader array of courses, all designed to meet increasingly tougher Pennsylvania standards. One other benefit: as learners’ comprehension increases, Pottsgrove hopes, so will their results on state standardized tests.

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Pottsgrove OKs Reinvesting Money Now To Save Later

Pottsgrove OKs Reinvesting Money Now To Save Later

It and other districts that are part of the Western Montgomery Career and Technical Center can save tens of thousands of dollars each on loan repayment costs in five years by being frugal now, directors learned. They liked the proposal.

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Summer School Inevitable, With ‘Grove-Approved Hires

For Pottsgrove School District students who need remedial help, summer school can be a blessing. Admittedly, they don’t always see it that way. The school board nonetheless began preparing for it Tuesday, and also approved several other personnel actions.

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Child Care Charges Rising For Pottsgrove Schools

The cost of before- and after-school day care services paid by the Pottsgrove School District is, like its students, growing.

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Pottsgrove Schools To Reopen On Aug. 27, Unless …

To avoid paying about $600,000 in contractually required raises for employees represented by the Pottsgrove Education Association, school directors on Tuesday said if no labor contract is signed with teachers by summer’s end, they would delay reopening until Sept. 6.

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School Board Says It Will Enforce Comment Policies

As a result of what it called earlier disruptions of otherwise orderly discussions, the Pottsgrove Board of School Directors proclaimed Tuesday it would enforce a standing policy that governs public behavior during its meetings.

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Pottsgrove, Teachers Union Call For Contract Fact-Finder

Pottsgrove’s school board and the union representing district teachers, the Pottsgrove Education Association, jointly said Wednesday they wanted a fact-finder to take a non-binding look at their labor contract proposals in the hope of reaching a settlement.

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Parents Anxiously Await Pottsgrove Bus Route Revisions

Parents Anxiously Await Pottsgrove Bus Route Revisions

Preliminary bus routes that demonstrate how the Pottsgrove School District intends to move children to and from school buildings under next year’s redistricting plans will be publicly released today.

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