The education wars continue in Delaware County.
A contingent of educators, students and concerned community members from the William Penn School District took a road trip to Harrisburg yesterday to protest funding cuts contained in Gov. Tom Corbett’s budget
And in Chester Upland, state Rep. Thaddeus Kirkland held a public hearing on their own endangered species, public education in the city of Chester.
You have to like the spunk of Charlotte Hummel. She’s the president of the embattled William Penn School Board. They have already voted against eliminating the district’s kindergarten program. But they’re still $3 million in the hole, and have very few places left to cut.
Yesterday they held a bake sale outside the state Capitol. They were looking to sell two dozen doughnuts for $23,417 to save tutoring programs. A cake was going for $150,000, the cost of endangered lunchroom and recess moderators.
Cute.
At a public hearing in Chester, Kirkland took the time to point out several comments on a story posted on this website concerning his call to possibly close the district’s three high schools and allow those students to attend other schools in the county.
He noted people were not exactly rolling out the welcome mat.
Kirkland rolled through a list of potential cuts that could be made, including cutting administration salaries and selling the administration building to Widener University.
The school have to have their completed budgets in place by July 1. So does that state.
That ticking sound you hear is the clock winding down on an education nightmare.
Kaboom!
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