The new school board held its first business meeting, the video is available on Youtube and the agenda is available on board docs. Reports The student representative opened with current events at the schools such as food drives and spirit days. The elementary and middle schools are having […]
In his weekly email, Superintendent Marseille shared two items that will be on the WSSD Board’s meeting agenda this week. But before we get to that, I want to note that the agendas for the most recent committee meetings have now been posted to Board Docs! This is […]
WSSD is currently reviewing a calendar proposal for the next two years and expects to approve these calendars shortly – possibly at their meeting next week. A group of parents in the WSSD community is circulating a petition calling on the school board to delay implementing the 2023-2024 […]
Last night the new school board was sworn in after a scheduling snafu where Judge Stephanie Klein had to step in at the last minute to swear in the board. Kelly Wachtman and David Grande swapped places with Kelly becoming board president and David Grande becoming vice president. […]
Today is the last day of this blog’s first year. As stated in the first post, the hope was to provide local information that isn’t found elsewhere. This year the DelCo Times published lengthy articles on the county races with a mention of the Chester City council race, […]
Nether Providence Township has posted their draft 2022 budget to the website. Overall it shows pretty stable budget with most changes due to the life resuming normality post-pandemic. The draft budget shows a 2.9% increase in revenue with a 3.1% increase in expenditures. The line for real estate […]
The WSSD Board of Directors held their last meeting of the cycle. The video is available on Youtube here and the agenda is available on Board Docs. The next meeting is the re-organization meeting to swear in the new board. The student representative report was hard to hear, […]
Yesterday I was told of a lawsuit filed against the county for the 2020 election and today the Bureau of Elections has posted a statement about it. I dug around on Twitter and managed to find a copy of the lawsuit. Its 91 pages long and appears to […]
Superintendent Marseille sent out this email to the school community this afternoon, Dear WSSD Families and Community, As Thanksgiving week begins, this is not the message that I wished to write to you. This morning, I was extremely disheartened and saddened to learn that a racial slur, the […]
The board of commissioners held a joint legislative and budget meeting this week. There’s no meeting next week due to Thanksgiving. The meeting video is available on Youtube. There were no public comments, solicitor or engineer report and the board passed the minutes as usual. There are positions […]
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