Thursday, March 14, 2013
The 2013 Baldwin Invite gets a sponsor.
Terry Choate Resigns Whitehall Borough resident Terry Choate, who used public-comments time during a March 16 Baldwin-Whitehall School Board meeting to express his dissatisfaction with the cleanliness of district buses, has resigned from his position as an extra bus driver for the district. The school board accepted his resignation, dated for Jan. 4, by an 8-1 vote at its meeting on Wednesday night. Board member Martin Michael Schmotzer dissented. Choate said on March 16 that he is a 35-year administrator of transportation. "I have never seen so many rules and regulations not followed at that (Baldwin-Whitehall) bus garage," Choate said. "You can't sweep bacteria out of a bus with a broom." Following Choate's March 16 speech, board member…
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
Also, Virginia Deasy will receive benefits, and more leftovers from Wednesday's school board meeting.
How Should Student Board Reps Earn Their Spots? Picking up on conversations from previous school board meetings, members of the Baldwin-Whitehall School Board, members of the audience and the board's student representatives each weighed in during a Wednesday night board meeting on what the process should be for selecting student board reps. Baldwin High School seniors Jaclyn Sirc and Joseph Doyle, junior Victoria Schmotzer and sophomore Jennifer Yanko are the district's current student board reps. Each of them was nominated for their positions by district administrators before being approved the board. Board member Kevin J. Fischer has said that he would prefer that students elect their own student board reps, while folks like state Rep. …
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
And plenty more from Wednesday night's school board meeting.
Extracurricular Activities Eligibility Confusion over what makes students eligible to participate in extracurricular activities in the Baldwin-Whitehall School District should come to an end next week. At least, that's the plan. New Superintendent Dr. Randal A. Lutz told the B-W School Board at a meeting on Wednesday night that he will submit a revised extracurricular participation policy for the board to vote on next week. That revised policy is expected to enforce a uniform standard for not only student-athletes in grades 7-12 but also for any student in those grades who wishes to participate in other activities, such as German Club, student newspaper, et al. During the 2011-12 school year, district officials attempted to enforce a …
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
The board will consider charging students for extracurricular activities.
'Pay to Play' "I think the time has come" were the words of Baldwin-Whitehall School Board member Kevin J. Fischer on Wednesday night describing his motion for B-W School District administrators to develop a fee structure for student participation in extracurricular activities. Fischer did not motion for a fee structure to be implemented just yet, only to be developed and studied. Fellow board member Nancy Sciulli DiNardo seconded Fischer's motion "for conversation," and the motion passed, 9-0. This isn't the first time that B-W board members have discussed "pay to play." "I have mixed emotions for this (paying for activities)," board member Nancy Lee Crowder said in April, acknowledging that extracurricular activities are part of students…
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Thursday, June 7, 2012
Residents who remember Denise Sedlacek can welcome her back to the ranks. Also, a possible change in policy determining student board representatives is discussed.
Sedlacek Hired As one Baldwin-Whitehall School Board member put it, "Welcome back." Former B-W School District administrator Denise L. Sedlacek is returning as the district's assistant superintendent, as the school board voted to approve her hiring during a meeting on Wednesday night. Board member Nancy Lee Crowder, who made the welcoming statement, said that she was impressed with Sedlacek during the position's interviewing process. "Not only did she give answers, she gave solutions," Crowder said. Sedlacek previously served the district as its director of secondary curriculum before leaving in 2005. Since 2010, she has been the vice president of educational services at Pittsburgh area-based Pressley Ridge, which provides services to …
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Remaining notes from a March 14 Baldwin-Whitehall School Board meeting.
B-W School Officials Won't Enforce New Eligibility Policy (Yet) Read here. Brian Welles Out as Baldwin H.S.'s Boys Soccer Coach The Baldwin-Whitehall School Board opened all boys soccer coaching positions at Baldwin High School, effective Thursday morning, by an 8-0 vote on Wednesday night. (Board member Nancy Sciulli DiNardo was absent.) Brian Welles resigned as head coach of the program, and as is customary, the board opened up all of his assistant coaching positions so that a new head coach can hire his or her own staff. Welles' assistants can reapply to be on the new coaching staff, including applying for the head coaching position. Assistant Coach Richard Deemer, already the head coach of Baldwin's girls lacrosse program, said that he…
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Common Sense
12:02 am on Friday, September 21, 2012
I don't understand why there are student reps at the board meeting to begin with. Student government or counsil should be the representation of the student body and they should meet with school administration as needed during the day while they are at school. This makes a lot more sense. more ›