Monday, January 28, 2013
The new front entrance lobby, offices and classrooms are expected to open next week.
CB East students, staff and parents will find a defined front entrance and spacious, light-filled lobby waiting for them when they start school next week. Those improvements are among the renovations made during the second phase of a $28 million capital improvement project at the high school in Buckingham, which was built in 1969. The new section is expected to be ready for business when students and staff return to school on Monday, Feb. 4, the start of the second semester. "We’re excited about that," Superintendent Dr. Rod Green said. "We’re looking forward to great things in that front area." The second phase of the renovation plan added windows in the cafeteria and along the front of the building, improvements which were ready when …
Friday, January 25, 2013
The Central Bucks School Board this week recognized 10 teachers who have earned National Board Certification.
Ten Central Bucks teachers were honored this week for completing board certification in their subject areas. School board members recognized the teachers Tuesday night at a board meeting. The teachers earned National Board Certification through the National Board For Professional Teaching Standards. The voluntary assessment program is designed to recognize teachers who meet high standards based on what teachers should know and be able to do in their subject areas. "This is a pretty big deal," superintendent Dr. Rod Green said, adding that only about 600 or so teachers in the whole state of Pennsylvania are board certified. These 10 join another 50 teachers in Central Bucks who have achieved the certification. District officials said …
Weigh in on whether you support teachers and staff carrying guns in Central Bucks schools.
Ed Mackouse stood before the Central Bucks School Board this week and said that teachers and administrators should carry guns in the district's schools. "Everyone knows that the NRA is right. The only way to stop a gun is with another gun," said Mackouse, 69. "We can’t afford to have too many armed professional guards," continued Mackouse, who lives in Buckingham, "and they’re not as good, they can’t tell the difference" between a threatening individual and parents and other school visitors. So arming teachers and school staff is a good solution, Mackouse said. The nine school board members made no comment on his suggestions Tuesday night, and no official action is on the table for Central Bucks. But state legislators are talking about the…
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
The calendar for 2013-2014 calls for school to be held on days that Central Bucks has had off in recent years.
Central Bucks students won't have the whole week of Thanksgiving off next year, and they'll be in school on Election Day. They won't start school until after Labor Day, but seventh and tenth graders won't get the school to themselves on their first day. Those are among several changes new superintendent Dr. Rod Green made to next year's school calendar. The tweaks did not win unanimous support from school board members. Though the school calendar for 2013-2014 was approved, it won passage on a 7-2 vote Tuesday night. Board members John Gamble and Kelly Unger voted against the new schedule. Green said he designed the new calendar after hearing input from school principals, district administrators and parents. "Obviously, it doesn’t …
Saturday, January 19, 2013
The Y will donate more than 40 pieces of strength equipment to the Central Bucks School District this month.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Changes that went into effect this year for Central Bucks' middle schools will remain in effect next year, as well.
Students who will be attending Central Bucks middle schools next fall will continue to have the same six-period school days that middle schoolers have this year. Administrators said this week that Central Bucks will stick to the new schedule at its five middle schools for the 2013-2014 school year. "We're about to start the scheduling process at the middle school level," Dr. Rodney Green said Tuesday at a school board meeting. "So I wanted to make sure that everyone knew we were continuing with the six-period schedule." The decision comes nearly a year after hundreds of angry parents, teachers and students packed the school board meeting room to protest a decision to cut a class period from the middle school day. In February 2012, the …
The Bungee Jumpers amaze crowds all around the area with their jump rope skills, which they've been honing since 2008.
They kick, they twirl, they turn around. They swing fast, they swing slow. They move from a v-shape into a straight line. And they do it all while jumping rope in perfect unison. They are the Bungee Jumpers, a team of kids who perform jump rope skills that drive crowds to their feet. They jump rope while doing pushups. They jump rope while sitting on their bottoms. They jump rope in groups, in pairs, and as singles. The Bungee Jumpers grew out of an effort that began in fall 2008, under the tutelage of an energetic young man named Justin Pillmore. Pillmore had just taken a job teaching physical education at Groveland Elementary, in the Central Bucks School District. He started a morning club so kids could come in early before school to …
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
The Central Bucks School Board on Tuesday formally approved new buzz-in entry systems for the district's 23 schools.
The Central Bucks School Board on Tuesday night approved the installation of new buzz-in security systems at all the district's schools. The vote was a formality. School administrators began the process while schools were closed for the holidays, installing a test system at Linden Elementary School in Doylestown Borough. Since then, the systems have been installed at six or seven of the district's 23 schools, Superintendent Dr. Rodney Green said Tuesday night. The remaining elementary and middle schools are expected to be finished by the end of next week, he said. The seven school board members present at Tuesday's meeting voted unanimously in favor of the project. "I was thrilled about the buzzer system," said Tyler Tomlinson, who …
Central Bucks is moving forward with a plan to secure the entrances to its schools.
In the wake of the massacre at a Connecticut grade school in December, parents, teachers and school administrators across the country turned their thoughts, again, to school security. In Central Bucks, new superintendent Dr. Rodney Green and school board members reviewed the district's approach to security and decided to make some changes. Those changes will be discussed at the Central Bucks school board meeting Tuesday night. Among them is a new secure entryway system now being installed at the district's elementary and middle schools. The new entry system that requires visitors to be buzzed into the buildings was installed at Linden Elementary School in Doylestown Borough during the holiday vacation, according to the report Green plans …
Friday, December 14, 2012
Central Bucks school officials reach out to parents and police say they train for these crises, as the country reacts with horror to the shooting at a Newtown, Conn. school.
Central Bucks school officials reached out to parents Friday in the wake of the horrific school shooting in Connecticut. By the end of the day Friday, the nation and the world knew that a gunman killed 20 children, many of them kindergartners, and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. The gunman died at the scene, and another victim was found later for a total of 28 dead. Central Bucks Superintendent Dr. Rodney Green sent a message Friday afternoon through the district's email notification system to parents and school staff. Green told Doylestown Patch that he wanted to reassure parents that Central Bucks schools take a proactive stance to school safety. "We take safety issues very seriously," Green said. "We want parents …
Kaitlyn Schaeffer
9:45 pm on Friday, January 25, 2013
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