By Jim Phreaner

School Board School Superintendent John Sanville has announced the appointment of Timothy V. Hoffman as principal of Charles F. Patton Middle School, effective July 1.

“Hoffman was selected after reviewing 120 applications,” Sanville said at the May 21 Unionville-Chadds Ford School District board meeting. “Fifteen finalists were identified for final interviews. In addition the selection focus group made site visits to several schools to evaluate the finalists for the position.  The key criteria included background and reference checks and most importantly which candidate fit our vision.”

Hoffman comes to UCF with seven years of administrative experience serving as an assistant principal at two schools in the Tredyffrin – Easttown School District.

In a brief speech, Hoffman said, “It will be difficult to get the grin off my face. When our family moved from Montgomery County Maryland seven years ago, we wanted our children to attend the best public school district in the region.  We moved to Unionville-Chadds Ford. It is an honor to follow Bruce Vosburgh as principal of Patton Middle School and I look forward to transitioning into the new position with Bruce’s expertise to guide me.”

Prior to Sanville’s announcement of Hoffman’s selection, Patton Middle School Principal Bruce Vosburgh congratulated Patton students Eric Jankowski, Hank Ward, John Stookey and Alice Liu who participated in the American Scholastic Challenge 2012 that took place online during February.

“[More than] 17,000 students participated from schools throughout the country,” Vosburgh said. “The competition allows participants to demonstrate a variety of problem solving skills and knowledge in many academic areas.  This year, these top four students earned high scores to place them in 2nd place, earning a Silver Award.  Special congratulations go out to Alice Liu, who earned an outstanding score of 96 out of 100 and took first place overall out of all 17,000 participants. “

Other news

School Board Vice President Jeff Leiser said that he had“…assumed the responsibility of chairing the newly formed school board Negotiations Committee comprised of myself, Keith Knauss and Victor DuPuis.  The Negotiations Committee has been formed to conduct preliminary meetings with the U-CF Education Association teachers union. The current teacher’s contract expires at the end of the 2013 school year.  The school board hoped to open brief negotiations with the expectation of adding one additional year onto the current contract.  No additional outside legal or other parties have been engaged for the three meetings we recently conducted with the teacher’s union negotiators.  While the school board appreciates the professional manner the teacher’s union has presented, our current negotiations have been suspended until January 2013 at the request of the union.  Their position is the school board’s offer for an additional contract year falls very short of teacher’s union compensation goal.”

Leiser said there are three negotiating objectives.

“We want what is best for our students in terms of quality of education, will the terms of the next teachers’ contract be sustainable within the limitations of our school budget and we also will weigh current local economic conditions and any additional tax increase burden on the local taxpayers to support the next union contract.”

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