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Rose Tree Media’s $84M K-1 Center Wins Preliminary Middletown Approval
Rose Tree Media families moved closer to full-day kindergarten Oct. 21. Middletown Township Council gave preliminary approval to a new K-1 Early Learning Center beside Penncrest High School, writes Pete Bannan for The Delco Times. The vote was 5-1 among members present. Leslie Campo, who represents the surrounding neighborhood, cast...
Spotlight PA
Reading School Board members spent $93K to attend conferences, violated out-of-state travel policies
READING — Several members of the Reading School Board spent more than $93,000 on conference travel during the two most recent academic years — exceeding their budget and outpacing pre-pandemic costs, according to a Spotlight PA review of spending records. A majority of members also broke state and...
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Club Spotlight: Students Helping Students
Students helping students is an awesome club. SHS runs on club day A. Their main goal is to help students feel comfortable in our school. SHS is hoping to start a new program where students in the club will help other students by tutoring them. The advisors of SHS are...
Main Line Media News
Franklin County Free Press
Cecil Whig
'Fundations' brings foundational learning back to the classroom
NORTH EAST — In Shannon Bailey’s kindergarten class at North East Elementary School, students were learning how to read and write with special paper that helps them not only to learn the letters and the sounds each make but also how to write each letter. “Find your plane line,” Bailey told her students. “Go to your grass line, up to the skyline and back down to the grass.” The goal here was to print a letter ‘d.’ Instead of the familiar Zaner-Bloser paper with red and blue lines, Fundations paper includes several simple lines and to the left and right of each, is a drawing of a skyline, a plane, grass and a worm. Whether printing or cursive, the pictures help students learn how to create each letter properly. Fundations, part of the Wilson Language Fundations program, was adopted by Cecil County Public Schools three years ago, and educators give it high praise, according to Chief Academic Officer Shawn Johnson. “We assess (students) three times a year for their proficiency in reading,” Johnson said. “We’re noticing a marked difference in the 4th grade.” The system moves reading education away from sight words and back to phonics and rote memorization of
Berks Weekly
Yocum Institute for Arts Education welcomes Alec Reinert as New Director of Development
Yocum Institute for Arts Education has announced the appointment of Alec Reinert as its new Director of Development. With a strong background in nonprofit leadership, fundraising, and community engagement, Reinert brings a wealth of experience and a passion for expanding opportunities for young people through education and the arts. A...
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gettysburgian.com
CWI’s Funded Internship Program Sends Students From Classroom to the Field
This article originally appeared on pages 20 to 22 of the Sept. 2026 edition of The Gettysburgian magazine. For more than a decade, Gettysburg College’s Civil War Institute (CWI) has offered students a chance to put their classroom learning in practice. The CWI Funded Internship Program, now in its...
WDEL 1150AM
Appoquinimink School Board member apologizes for comments about Muslims
In her first major public appearance since sparking controversy over comments made about Muslims in a social media group, Appoquinimink School Board member Elena Brenner apologized Tuesday night. Brenner made a post in a public Facebook group earlier this month with her comment "There is not a single Muslim-majority country...
CBS News
Garnet Valley students raise concerns over Pennsylvania's new school cellphone ban
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Red Clay's plans to turn McKean into innovation center renewed
McKean High School's future as a full-time, comprehensive school is once again in jeopardy as the Red Clay School District begins another round of high school restructuring discussions. The Red Clay School Board voted in April to "pause" a plan that would have switched McKean from a traditional public high...