We’re so proud of the Lower Merion School District’s chapter of buildOn that won the Student Leader Award in PSEA’s Celebrating Excellence Awards program this year. The chapter is part of a worldwide movement to break the cycle of poverty, illiteracy, and low expectations through service and education. Last year, more than 300 community members ...read more →
Congrats to Lise Marlowe, a sixth-grade teacher at Elkins Park School in the Cheltenham School District, and member of the Cheltenham Education Association, for winning PSEA’s Celebrating Excellence Award this year in the category of Educational Leader. She has strived to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive for her students, community, and temple. Lise ...read more →
The North Penn School District was honored once again with the “Best Communities for Music Education” designation from the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Foundation for its outstanding commitment to music education. North Penn joins 623 districts across the country in receiving the prestigious award in 2019. In cooperation with researchers at the Music ...read more →
Congratulations to Sarah Pribis who is about to be inducted into the Wissahickon Hall of Fame for her work as a professional actress, producer and host. She made her Broadway debut in Les Miserables while attending Wissahickon HS and continued her education at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, double majoring in Theatre and Journalism. She is ...read more →
A huge shout-out to North Penn High School senior Moira Shoush — who spent her junior year studying in Toulouse, France — on her outstanding achievements on the Baccalauréate Exam during the 2017-2018 school year. Moira not only chose to attempt this high-stakes exam used to admit students into French universities, but also scored a 17.75/20 ...read more →
Congratulations to senior, Lindsey Spritzler of North Penn High School, for being selected as a member of the 2018 All-National Honor Mixed Choir. She will join the “best of the best” as a Soprano I in the National Association for Music Education All-National Honor Mixed Choir, performing at their conference in Disney World in November. ...read more →
Congratulations to Eric Harlan and Dominic Carbone, the first Bucks County Technical High School students to ever win the Greater Philadelphia Automotive Technology competition, held in spring 2018. The pride of their teacher, Byron Cesari was very apparent: “They are very good students, both very self-confident and self-motivated,” he told The Intelligencer.
Spring-Ford School District Science Teacher Dan Leppold was selected as one of just 32 people to be a special guest at NASA Wallops in Virginia to experience the preparation and launch of a cargo resupply rocket and spaceship destined for the International Space Station. Over the three days he spent onsite, he was treated to ...read more →
THE ISSUE In a special report released last week, Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale said the commonwealth’s taxpayers are unnecessarily spending millions of dollars every year on the Keystone Exams, which have not been required since 2015, when the federal No Child Left Behind Law was replaced by the Every Student Succeeds Act. “Pennsylvania should aggressively explore using…
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