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4/18/2010 - Public Opinion - Citizens, Parents Ask School Board to Not Curtail Arts At last week's school board meeting, both members of CFA and many teachers spoke of the importance of the arts to students, and asked again for the board to reconsider its decision to curtail arts and electives courses.
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4/16/2010 - Public Opinion - CASD Board Presentation Reveals Disappointing Test Data CASD Curriculum Director Chris Bigger gave a special presentation to the school board following the official end of Wednesday's board meeting. His presentation showed that there are roughly 3,000 students in the District who are not meeting academic standards -- enough to fill the stands in the new high school gymnasium.
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4/15/2010 - WGAL - Chambersburg Considers Cuts The Chambersburg School District is looking to cut non-core programs, including music, art and gym for next school year.
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4/15/2010 - Herald Mail - CASD School Board Approves Preliminary Budget The CASD school board approved the preliminary budget for the 2010-2011 school year, using unfilled personnel positions as a way to cut costs and reduce the budget shortfall.
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4/15/2010 - Public Opinion - CASD School Board Approves Preliminary Budget The CASD school board has approved the preliminary budget for the 2010-2011 school year. The budget assumes no teachers being hired to replace those who are retiring.
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4/15/2010 - Herald Mail - Students Display Artwork at Franklin Learning Center 175 students with special needs, ages 5 to 21, showed off their artistic interpretations of far-off places at Franklin Learning Center.
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4/15/2010 - Public Opinion - Franklin County Students Taking PSSAs This article covers several schools and school districts in Franklin County, and the PSSA testing during the month of April.
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4/15/2010 - Public Opinion - Editorial on CASD Academic Performance Following the official end of the school board meeting Wednesday evening, there was a special presentation by Curriculum Director Chris Bigger. The presentation showed that CASD's student academic performance ranks only at the 25th percentile in the state. And significantly, the poor performance is seen across all student socio-economic levels.
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4/14/2010 - Public Opinion - CASD Still Falling Short Academically At tonight's school board meeting, Curriculum Director Chris Bigger will present data showing that CASD ranks only at the 25th percentile in the state in PSSA performance.
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4/13/2010 - Public Opinion - Letter to the Editor A writer to the PO editorial page points out the importance of not losing any more music teachers.
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4/12/2010 - Public Opinion - CFA Launches Petition Drive This Public Opinion article covers the CFA meeting in which the petition drive was launched.
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4/9/2010 - Public Opinion - Academic Banners Awarded to CASD Schools At the last board meeting, CASD announced the winners of its first annual Academic Achievement Awards.
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4/9/2010 - Public Opinion - Marion Kindergaten Will Be Relocated The modular trailer, which houses the Kindergarten at Marion elementary, is no longer serviceable. So CASD is deciding on a new home for Marion Kindergarten.
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4/8/2010 - Public Opinion - Faust Student Advances to State Geography Bee Faust 8th-grader Lara Vera, a recent student of the month, and the daughter of a CFA member, has earned a trip to the state Geography Bee.
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4/7/2010 - Public Opinion - Faust Looking for a PSSA Surge Following a surge in instruction, Faust Jr. High is hoping for a resulting surge in PSSA scores.
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4/7/2010 - Public Opinion - Hamilton Heights Rallies for PSSAs Hamilton Heights elementary school held a student rally to boost enthusiasm for the upcoming PSSA tests.
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4/1/2010 - Public Opinion - CASD Will Do Only Highest-Priority Building Repairs This Summer About $1 million in expenditures will be paid out of the CASD capital reserve fund this summer for building repairs and improvements. The funded improvements will be the highest priority items which are most needed, while other repairs and improvements will be put off until later because of the budget problems.
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3/31/2010 - Public Opinion - CASD Plans New ESL Program CASD will launch a new "English as a Second Language" program this fall at the high school.
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3/29/2010 - Herald Mail - CASD Discusses High School Changes at Public Forum At a public forum Monday evening, CASD officials discussed issues such as open campus, e-learning, and uniforms.
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3/27/2010 - Public Opinion - Math Madness Prepares Students for PSSAs at Scotland, Stevens CASD Math Coach Amber Myers used "Math Madness" games at two CASD elementary schools to help students prepare for upcoming PSSA tests.
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3/26/2010 - WITF - CASD Plans Arts Cuts WITF radio in Harrisburg ran a news series this week on Pennsylvania school districts which are planning to cut curriculum to save money or improve test scores. This article covered CASD, and mentions CFA.
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3/26/2010 - Public Opinion - CASD Requests State Pension Reform At Wednesday's board meeting, CASD joined many other school districts across the state in requesting legislative relief for the upcoming spike in required payments into the state school retirement fund.
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3/25/2010 - Public Opinion - FCCTC Agrees to Lower Rent for Chambersburg One day after the CASD board meeting, the FCCTC Joint Operating Committee accepted Chambersburg's request to keep the CASD academic students at FCCTC, and to lower CASD's rent to half of what it had been.
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3/25/2010 - Public Opinion - CASD Board Votes to Keep Students at FCCTC At Wednesday's school board meeting, one of the main items of discussion was the recommendation by CASD administration to bring CASD's FCCTC students back to CASHS during the part of the year that they are in the CASD academic program instead of the FCCTC program.
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3/25/2010 - Herald Mail - CASD Board Votes to Keep Students at FCCTC At Wednesday's school board meeting, one of the main items of discussion was the recommendation by CASD administration to bring CASD's FCCTC students back to CASHS during the part of the year that they are in the CASD academic program instead of the FCCTC program.
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3/24/2010 - WHAG TV - Crowd Urges School Board to Save Arts At the Wednesday night CASD board meeting, a large crowd lined up to address the board. Many, including CFA members, asked the board to retain arts programs.
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3/24/2010 - Public Opinion - CASD Board Votes to Keep Students at FCCTC At Wednesday's school board meeting, one of the main items of discussion was the recommendation by CASD administration to bring CASD's FCCTC students back to CASHS during the part of the year that they are in the CASD academic program instead of the FCCTC program.
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3/24/2010 - Public Opinion - PDE Approves CASD Request to Cut The Pennsylvania Dept. of Education has approved CASD's request to decrease arts and music curriculum and electives. This article then mentions CFA's efforts to ensure that CASD continues offering a well-rounded education for our students.
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3/24/2010 - Herald Mail - PDE Approves CASD Request to Cut The Pennsylvania Dept. of Education has approved CASD's request to decrease arts and music curriculum and electives. This article then mentions CFA's efforts to ensure that CASD continues offering a well-rounded education for our students.
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3/24/2010 - WHP TV - Cutting the Extras at School In this story, written by Harrisburg's WHP TV channel 21, Chambersburg is mentioned along with Central Dauphin as school districts which are considering various cuts, as well as pay-to-play, to deal with budget shortfalls.
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3/19/2010 - Public Opinion - Unsettled Grievances between CAEA and CASD This article is an update on the status of several grievances between the Chambersburg School District and the Teachers' Union.
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3/14/2010 - Public Opinion - Annual Spaghetti Dinner At this year's annual spaghetti dinner fund raiser, the fate of the band program loomed on the minds of many. Includes comments from CABPA (the band boosters organization which sponsored the event), CFA, and others.
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3/14/2010 - Herald Mail - Washington County, MD Holds Public Budget Hearing Unlike Chambersburg, the Washington County, MD, school district (which includes Hagerstown) invited members of the public to make their opinions known on their budget. This article announces a public hearing to get input before a budget vote.
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2/5/2010 - Herald Mail - CFA Holds Organizational Meeting The Herald Mail covers CFA's organizational meeting. (Note that the Public Opinion also covered this meeting, but that story is no longer available on the P.O. website.)
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1/28/2010 - Herald Mail - CASD Board Takes First Step toward Closing Coldbrook The Herald Mail covers the CASD school board meeting where the board voted to start taking the necessary steps to close Coldbrook Elementary school.
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1/23/2010 - Herald Mail - Franklin County Schools Face Money Woes This article covers budget shortfalls at Chambersburg, Waynesboro, Greencastle, and Tuscarora school districts. Mentions that Chambersburg has frozen spending, and has not been filling personnel vacancies.
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1/13/2010 - Herald Mail - CASD Facing $1.3 Million Budget Shortfall Covers the board meeting discussion of next year's CASD budget.
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1/13/2020 - Herald Mail - CASD Board Approves Teacher Retirement Incentive As one of the ways to address budget shortfalls, the CASD board approved a retirement incentive to encourage long-term experienced teachers to retire.
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1/13/2010 - Herald Mail - CASD Starts the Process to Reduce Music, Arts, and Electives Over strong public objection, the CASD school board passed a resolution to request permission from the state to reduce electives. This article covers that part of the board meeting. The article reports that Curriculum Director Chris Bigger promised a "public, transparent process" for evaluating the curriculum cuts.
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