Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Faced with declining enrollment and more unfunded state mandates, the Salisbury School Board is considering raising taxes 4 percent and cutting 2.5 staff positions.
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Faced with declining enrollment and more unfunded state mandates, the Salisbury School Board is considering raising taxes 4 percent and cutting 2.5 staff positions as it tries to balance a $30 million budget for 2012-2013. On Monday, Business Administrator Christine Stafford presented the board with five options to close an $819,215 deficit on an anticipated $30.3 million in expenses and $29.4 million in revenue. The options ranged from: The district has about $2 million in unreserved, undesignated funds. And because of declining enrollment in the district, the administration recommended reducing professional positions by: Salisbury Middle School will decrease its four teaching teams to three teams, Assistant Superintendent Louise …
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Thursday, May 3, 2012
Salisbury students who take chorus will get an elective credit, but no credits will be awarded for studying band next year.
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Thursday, May 3, 2012
Citing both a potential violation of the Salisbury teachers union contract and student scheduling conflicts, the Salisbury School Board voted to make band a non-credit club and keep chorus as an elective course for credit next year at Salisbury High School. Acting Principal Ken Parliman requested the scheduling change at the board's Monday curriculum and technology committee meeting. Chorus would be moved into the block schedule of core courses for credit and band would become a club and remain in the Falcon period as a non-credit class. Students will also have the option of taking chorus as a non-credit club in the Falcon period. The board met in executive session after the meeting to discuss how the current band and chorus schedule is a …
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Monday, April 23, 2012
The Salisbury Township School Board recognized Eric Tatum and other members of the Salisbury High School boys and girls swim teams for their winning performances in the PIAA state championships.
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Monday, April 23, 2012
Members of the Salisbury High School boys and girls swim teams were recognized by the Salisbury School Board last week for their achievements at the PIAA state championships last month. Eric Tatum, a junior, was honored with special certificate for his first place finish in the 100 meter butterfly, the first gold medal in Salisbury's history. The boys team placed fourth overall, their highest ever at the meet. The boys team captured the school's first District 11 2A title.
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Friday, April 6, 2012
Three companies presented plans that could save Salisbury Township School District substantial energy saving costs.
The Salisbury Township School Board is considering three proposals that could cost more than $2.1 million to upgrade buildings in the district, but provide up to $157,00 on energy costs in the first year. Director of Finance Christine Stafford said the project would pay for itself due to interest accrued on the money saved. Stafford said if the board decides to proceed with one of the projects, they would need to pare down the cost to $2 million or less. Stafford cautioned the committee that reducing a project to $1 million would not be cost effective because it would not save enough on energy costs. Representatives from Honeywell, McClure Company and Pepco Energy Service presented their plans to the board's April 2 operations committee …
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The Salisbury school board will decide whether the marching band can participate in the Chick-fil-A College Bowl in Atlanta next December.
The Salisbury Township School Board is considering whether to allow the district's marching to perform at the Chick-fil-A College Bowl in Atlanta, Ga. during winter break. Students would not miss time off from school because the trip would take place from Dec. 28 to Jan.1, when the district is on winter break, Band Director Angela Mosley told the board at its March 26 curriculum and technology committee meeting. The marching band would play in the half-time show and the parade before the game. The band, which is composed of middle school and high school students, has the option whether it wants its performance judged in the college bowl, Mosley said. Because the band is smaller than many others, the students might not feel comfortable …
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Friday, February 24, 2012
The Salisbury Township School Board accepted staff resignations and approved new hires.
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Friday, February 24, 2012
The Salisbury Township School Board accepted the resignation of the following: The board approved the following coaches:
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Friday, February 10, 2012
By a vote of 5-2, the Salisbury Township School Board reluctantly approved the Arts Academy Charter School for middle school students, but launches district's own cyber school to stem the loss of students to cyber and other charter schools.
The Salisbury Township School Board unanimously approved the district's own cyber school moments before it reluctantly voted to approve a privately run Arts Academy Charter School to move into the district. The school board fast-tracked its decision to create an online school,the Virtual Academy of Salisbury Township, or VAST, with the Carbon-Lehigh Intermediate Unit last month in an effort to try to win back students and the nearly half-million dollars in tuition it loses to cyber and other charter schools. Salisbury's cyber school would begin at the start of the district's 2012 school year in August. The Arts Academy Charter School for grades 5 to 8 plans to open in September in the former KidsPeace building at 1610 E. Emmaus Ave., …
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Salisbury School Board President Russell Giordano read a statement outlining his opposition to the Arts Academy Charter School.
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Friday, February 10, 2012
Salisbury Township School Board President Russell Giordano read the following statement before he voted against the Arts Academy Charter School at the Feb. 9 school board meeting. "This is my 13th year as of this past December serving on the Salisbury Township School Board. In those 13 years, I have never voted for anything that I believed was not in the best interest of public education in general and this school district, its students and taxpayers, in particular. "Tonight we're being asked to approve a charter to create a new school. We are charged with this decision by the state, not for educational reasons, but for a geographic one. Because the building chosen for this school is within our borders, we must decide on the charter …
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Although it's still early in the process, the Salisbury Township School Board approved a proposed preliminary budget with a 6 percent tax increase.
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Although months from final approval, the Salisbury Township School District proposed preliminary budget for 2012-2013 includes a 6.6 percent tax increase. The tax increase in the $30.7 million budget will likely change several times before the proposed final budget is approved in May. The school board, which approved the preliminary budget last week, was required to submit this phase to the Pennsylvania Department of Education. A 6.63 percent tax increase would raise the total millage from 46.8538 to 50.1580. The state allows the district to raise taxes 1.7 percent, but the district can apply for exemptions, such as pension and special education costs, that permit it to raise taxes. Business Administrator Christine Stafford said if the …
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Salisbury Township School District's declining enrollment, rising costs, have implications for budgets over next five years, business administrator says.
If Salisbury Township School District does not raise taxes in the next five years, it would need to cut more than $4 million from the budget by 2016-2017 school year, according to Business Administrator Christine Stafford. However, if the district raised taxes only as much as the tax index allows, the district would need to cut $1.95 million by 2016-2017, Stafford told the school board at its Jan. 16 operations committee. “One thing that remains constant is the enrollment is still diminishing,” Superintendent Robert Gross said. With about 140 students per grade, Salisbury High School has the highest enrollment of its four schools, Gross said. He said the district will have to examine what this could mean for staffing in the next few …
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Mik
2:55 am on Saturday, May 12, 2012
I'm starting to understand these mils homeowners pay to the township/school district. Any chance you know if business pay the same? Does the school district get $ from these entities? I just learned LVH doesn't pay any taxes - Are businesses taxed at a higher rate? (township & sd) Any differences in the levels of business or strictly property value? (i.e. mall vs. the Budget rental vs. McDs? - … more ›