Should you guess on the SAT?
What you don’t know can help you, if you play the percentages
By Bradley Everett, Special to UnionvilleTimes.com
If you search for “Should I Guess on the SAT” on Google, you will get about 196 Million results (and a lot of different answers). So we’ll take a stab at giving you an answer with the 196 Million and first.
You get one full point for each correct answer and lose 1/4 of a point...
Kennett, Unionville to share community breakfast
Annual June 9 Community Breakfast event expands to invite neighboring Kennett
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
Unionville-Chadds Ford School District administrators serve up a hot breakfast the 2011 Community Breakfast. For this year's breakfast, on June 9, they'll have company — administrators from the Kennett Consolidated School District.
EAST MARLBOROUGH — What more American...
Unionville’s Boeni honored as academic co-competitor of the year
Pictured (from left to right) is: David Jarvie, Chester County Academic Competition Judge; Jennifer Shealy, Chester County Intermediate Unit Special Events Coordinator; Competitor of the Year Meg Boeni of Unionville High School; and Pennsylvania State Senator Andy Dinniman (D-19).
DOWNINGTOWN – Unionville’s Meg Boeni was named co-competitor of the year in the Chester County Academic Competition,...
Unionville Chadds-Ford Education Foundation elects new president
Galer appointed president; new board members elected
By Suzanne Misciagna, Correspondent, UnionvilleTimes.com
Lele Galer is the new president of the Unionville-Chadds Ford Education Foundation.
EAST MARLBOROUGH – The Unionville Chadds-Ford Education Foundation (UCFEF) is commemorating the end of the school year with the election of a new president along with several new board members to serve on...
Time for the end of prevailing wage
Law may have made sense a couple of generations ago, but its time has passed
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
You’ve probably seen a lot of headlines about prevailing wage of late — local municipalities backing a bill currently stuck in the state house.
The bill would increase the threshold for public bodies — schools, townships, boroughs and counties — required to pay prevailing...
Is schools fatigue setting in?
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
We’ll skip the politics this week — nothing I could write can match some of the things one might have seen on cable news in the last few days, although at least one story left my 10-year-old daughter asking me to define some of the terms being used by Wolf Blitzer, terms that seemed a lot more Jersey Shore than The Situation Room, involving women.
But...
‘Race To Nowhere’ screening Feb. 23
FOCUS sponsors film, panel discussion following on whether achievement is trumping learning
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
EAST MARLBOROUGH — How much is too much?
That’s the central question asked in the award-winning documentary Race to Nowhere, which examines the culture of parents pushing their school-age children too hard, creating an educational environment where grades and scores...
Patton evacuated because of fumes
Issues with heating system send students to Unionville HS
Patton Middle School.
EAST MARLBOROUGH — Patton Middle School was temporarily evacuated Thursday morning due to fumes coming from the buildings heating and ventilation system.
The school’s students were moved across the parking lot to the Unionville High School Auditorium, while maintenance workers attempted to fix the issue. School...
The year ahead: 2012, through our crystal ball
Will fracking worries lead to school funding problems in Unionville? Local race for Congress could make national headlines
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
Good bye, 2011, hello, 2012.
We’ve spent the last few days reviewing the top stories of 2011 — a pretty easy process, one must just look through our archives.
The more interesting — and potentially tricky — story is taking a look...
Year in Review, Part II: Parker retirement headlines busy spring in Unionville
Election race heats up with write-ins, teachers talks get testy and HS project comes under zoning scrutiny
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
The retirement of Unionville-Chadds Ford Superintendent of Schools Sharon Parker led to a multi-month process to find her replacement — and led to some exchanges on why she opted to retire during the fall election campaign.
The second quarter of 2011...
