Wednesday, May 15, 2013
The union represents the District’s secretaries, custodians and maintenance staff.
The Phoenixville Area School District and members of the district's support personnel union have reached a tentative contract agreement. The deal was announced in a joint press release put out by the District. According to the press release: The Phoenixville Area School District has reached a tentative agreement with the Phoenixville Educational Support Personnel Association, the group that represents the District’s secretaries, custodians and maintenance staff. Over the next couple of weeks, the parties will be working hard to finalize language and to obtain the appropriate votes (Association membership ratification and School Board approval) to make the agreement official. The District will be in a position to provide more …
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Thursday, May 2, 2013
Local Elementary student first place in one competition with 45 teams.
Monday, April 22, 2013
Football coach Bill Furlong would, reportedly, be affected.
The ongoing contract dispute between the Phoenixville Area School District and its teachers union took place on a bigger stage than usual on Thursday. According to The Mercury, tensions were high in the high school auditorium, as over 100 educators wore black PASD shirts to the school board meeting to protest the district’s proposal to reduce seven currently full-time teaching positions to part-time. The paper is reporting that the change would affect physical education and foreign language teachers at the high school and middle school. These teachers would keep their benefits, but lose a portion of their salary. Phantom football coach Bill Furlong would, reportedly, be one of the teachers impacted. While union representatives said the …
Monday, April 15, 2013
Having trouble kicking the habit? Listen to these PAMS wordsmiths.
A quartet of Phoenixville Area Middle School Students were among the ten finalists for the Chester County Tobacco-Free Coalition (CCTFC) Kick Butts Day Youth Essay Contest, according to district community relations coordinator Sandra Claus. The kids’ essays were selected from the hundreds of entries submitted by Chester County seventh and eighth grade students. The submissions were personal reflections and true stories about tobacco use and the tobacco industry. Phoenixville finalists Mitchell Coll, Julia Yancik, Tara Greenwood, and Emily Fabius were invited to read their essays at a reception hosted by the Chester County Health Department. According to Claus: Some of the stories were very personal, as a younger brother pleaded with his …
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
The kids won Blue Ribbons for their performance in the Chester County Reading Olympics.
15 of Barkley Elementary School’s best and brightest fourth and fifth graders took home Blue Ribbons for their performance in the Chester County Reading Olympics on April 4. The members of the "Barkley Sleuth Squad," of the Barkley Reading Olympics Club, were selected based on their participation in the club's weekly luncheon meetings, the number of books they've read, and their commitment to reading quality literature, according to district public relations coordinator Sandra Claus. The competition, held at the Technical College High School’s Pickering Campus, was comprised of three different rounds of questioning, and over 60 questions on 45 selected books. According to Claus, the Reading Olympics Club is new at Barkley this year. …
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Third grade teacher Denise Krisiewicz was honored for her contagious love of science.
Denise Krisiewicz is used to bestowing praise on her students. Now the tables have turned. Krisiewicz, a third grade teacher at East Pikeland Elementary, is the 2013 Citadels’ Heart of Learning Award finalist for Phoenixville Area School District. The award was developed by Citadel and the Chester County Intermediate Unit 12 years ago to recognize the most outstanding teachers in Chester County. The 16-year PASD veteran certainly fits the bill. Krisiewicz, who, according to district communications director Sandy Claus is “highly respected within the district,” has lead the after-school Science Explorer’s Club at East Pikeland for several years and has been directly involved in the development of the district’s science curriculum. According…
Thursday, March 28, 2013
April showers bring May flowers. And April artwork, Barnstone hopes, will bring a crowd.
Phoenixville kids will get a chance to show off their finest artwork next weekend. The first weekend in April, Barnstone Art for Kids, a Phoenixville-based and privately financed non-profit that encourages local kids to interact with art, is hosting a weekend of events centered around the artwork of the students of Phoenixville Area School District. It's a full slate of events. On Friday, April 5 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., the organization will kick off the weekend with an artist reception for high school artists and their friends and family. Then on Saturday, April 6 from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., the group will invite middle and elementary school students and their families to enjoy the artwork on display. Barnstone will also have interactive art …
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
The school district's administration, not the school board, will spearhead the assessment.
The Phoenixville Area School District administration is going to investigate what, if anything, it could have done differently regarding the case of former middle school principal Dr. Troy Czukoski, The Mercury is reporting. Though the school board initially considered launching its own investigation into the district’s handling of the former employee who was charged with child pornography earlier this month, the board ultimately decided to allow the administration to execute the review, according to the Mercury. “We’re simply going to ask the superintendent to come back to the board with a plan for performing this assessment,” school board president Joshua Gould told the paper. The assessment, Gould emphasized, would not be specific to …
Sunday, March 17, 2013
In the aftermath of a child porn charge against a former principal, the board wants to know if the district could have done anything differently.
Phoenixville Area School District may launch an investigation into what, if anything, it could have done differently regarding the child pornography charge that has been levied against the former principal of its middle school. Phoenixville Area School District board member Dan Cushing made a motion at Thursday’s workshop meeting to create a special counsel to investigate whether the district missed any telltale signs of misconduct from Dr. Troy Czukoski, according to The Mercury. Though Cushing withdrew his motion after an executive session, he said he would advance an altered version of it next week. President Josh Gould added that the board would “spend some time crafting a motion” Though the district has categorically denied that it …
Saturday, March 16, 2013
PASD maintains its decision to move the middle school principal to a post in district office was not motivated by concerns about his personal conduct.
In a statement released on its website on Thursday, Phoenixville Area School District reiterated that it had no knowledge of the child porn charge levied against its former middle school principal until media reports surfaced on Tuesday. It was not until Tuesday, March 12, 2013, as we read the news reports, that the District first became aware of the charges against Dr. [Troy] Czukoski and the nature of those charges. The district added that in late October an inspector from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service served a subpoena on PASD seeking personnel information regarding Dr. Czukoski, but gave them no information on the nature of the charges. The district also emphasized that its decision to move Czukoski from his former position as …
the original harry finster1
10:33 pm on Thursday, May 16, 2013
doesnt sound like anything but PR to me more ›