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Around noon on Father’s Day, Steve Brazzle texted Rich Como, his onetime principal at Coatesville High School.
“Happy Father’s Day pop pop,” Brazzle wrote, poking fun at Como’s age.
“My son!” replied Como, 67. “Much appreciated and thanks as always for remembering me. That does mean so much.”
Brazzle, who is black, wrote back: “Of course. Thanks for being who you are.”
Map of Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States Public School Districts (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Boyertown School Board was so close.
After a monthslong superintendent search, the board had selected a candidate and agreed on a contract.
The last step was his appointment, which at one point was expected to take place Tuesday.
But to begin Tuesday’s meeting, board President Gwen W. Semmens made this announcement instead:
“We had a potential candidate who withdrew at the very last moment. We’ll be looking for new candidates.”
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Manheim Township school board Thursday agreed to limit any tax increase in next year’s budget to 1.7 percent and approved a five-year contract with superintendent Gene Freeman.
The employment agreement, which runs through June 2018, will pay Freeman in excess of $1 million in salary and compensation over five years, making him the highest-paid superintendent in Lancaster County.
The vote on Freeman’s contract was unanimous, as was the vote to keep a possible tax rate increase for 2013-14 at or below the school district’s Act 1 index of 1.7 percent.
That vote marks a return to form for the district, which had stayed within its state-mandated index every year since 2006 until 2011-12, when it boosted taxes by 3.96 percent in the face of a revenue shortfall of about $4.7 million.
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POTTSTOWN, PA — The school district’s acting superintendent became its official superintendent Thursday night when the school board unanimously approved a three-year contract for Jeff Sparagana worth more than $173,000 a year.
The vote came almost three months to the day after Reed Lindley abruptly resigned as Pottstown Superintendent.
In a vote that appeared nowhere on the night’s school board agenda, Sparagana was provided with a contract that ends on June 30, 2016.
It’s been 39 years, but Wyomissing School District Superintendent David P. Krem can still remember his first day in the classroom as an elementary teacher.
It was 1973.
He was teaching fourth grade.
And there were firecrackers.
Dr. Carlinda Purcell has a plan for the Reading School District – even if it’s not that obvious right off the bat.
The Reading School Board on Monday formally introduced Purcell as the district’s newest superintendent, gathering the media and a handful of local officials for a press conference at the district administration building.
Introducing Purcell, school board President Yvonne L. Stroman said it has been a long journey trying to find a new leader for the district, but the wait was well worth it.
“There is no doubt of her leadership, of her wealth of knowledge she brings to our district,” Stroman said.
Looks like the rumor mill is running full-tilt at the Fishwrap online over the new OJR Superintendent of Schools leaving. The OJR School Board rushed to hire a replacement for wrongfully terminated Myra Forrest and less than two years later the new guy resigns. All the details are “confidential”?? Smells like day-old fish guts to me.
Despite all the “drama” this has caused and the pall it has cast over the Owen J. Roberts School District, the students suffer when there are too many turnovers. It seems more than coincidental that this guy is “outta here” already. If it is just “bad timing” then more of an explanation is due OJR taxpayers without violating anyone’s “confidentiality”.
The board owes it to OJR taxpayers and students to do a better job of selecting a candidate who is “in it for the long haul”. Continuity is important and we are talking about educating our children – not hiring someone to run the fryer at Mickey D’s. You had a perfectly good superintendent, who was totally committed to the district, and you fired her for no good reason!
Two thumbs down for more drama!
Makes me wonder what’s in the water over there! Both the superintendent and assistant superintendent have announced their plans to retire at the end of the school year, leaving Spring-Ford without an easy replacement option to fill the top job. How often does that happen??
Looks like someone got made an offer they couldn’t refuse. On 7/01/10 Pottstown will lose Superintendent David Krem to the Wyomissing School District.
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