In a relatively brief business portion of their April 18 meeting, Unionville-Chadds Ford School Board directors addressed facility upgrades at district buildings. A total of six actions were approved for more than $500,000. In the first matter, directors voted to spend $74,400 for carpet tile to replace floors at Chadds Ford, Pocopson, and Unionville Elementary schools. The board also voted to spend $42,300 on the…
Delaware County Community College and Susquehanna University have signed a transfer agreement whereby qualified students at the college can earn a bachelor’s degree at substantial tuition savings by transferring after earning their associate degree into the four-year university. Through this partnership, qualified students also can receive merit-based scholarships of up to $32,000 a year, with an additional $5,000 scholarship available per year for students in…
Kudos go out to Unionville High School Color Guard. The district tweeted the following: “Congratulations to Unionville High School’s Indoor Color Guard for placing 1st at their competition on Saturday, March 19 at William Penn HS. The Indoor Percussion ensemble placed 3rd at their competition at Perkiomen Valley with an 81.9.”
The Kennett Square Mushroom Festival has awarded $3,000 to the Kennett Library’s Adult Literacy Program, the library announced in a press release. The grant comes from proceeds from the 2021 Mushroom Festival. The money will help provide adult students with materials for classes in English as a Second Language, American citizenship, and high school equivalency diploma testing, which leads to a GED. While the Mushroom…
The March 21 Unionville-Chadds Ford School Board meeting was about money from facility upgrades to a new teachers' contract. The contract between the district and the union — the Unionville-Chadds Ford Education Association — was approved unanimously and will go into effect July 1, 2023, and run through the 2026-2027 school year. Salaries range from $59,514 at the low end up to $109,291 during the…
Unionville Chadds Ford Scholl Board directors Monday night reviewed bids for several facilities' projects involving all four elementary schools and the middle and high schools. One bid included the long-awaited project at the campus between Unionville High School and Patton Middle School. The bid reviewed was a professional services agreement with ELA Sport to design improvements to the parking, traffic, and pedestrian flow and replace…
Unionville High School’s Aria Zutshi was one of 30 students across the country selected to participate in the Young People Address the Nation event, a national day of action in direct response to President Biden’s 2022 State of the Union Address. Zutshi was invited to speak based on her work last year as an Ambassador for PeaceFirst, an organization that helps young people create and…
As was telegraphed over the weekend, Unionville-Chadds Ford School Board directors voted Monday night to amend the district’s Health and Safety Plan to make masks optional. The vote was 7-1. Director Rashi Akki did not attend the meeting. The lone vote against the measure came from board President Jeff Hellrung. On Saturday, Superintendent of Schools John Sanville sent out an email saying the board decided…
In the wake of changes to CDC guidance, Uniuonville-Chadds Ford schools will go mask optional. Superintendent of Schools John Sanville sent out the following email Saturday, Feb. 26: "Late yesterday the CDC issued revised guidance regarding COVID-19 mitigation efforts. Based on these changes - and effective immediately - all UCFSD schools, buses, and offices are mask optional. "On Monday, the Board will take action to…
• Cierra Breeding, of Chadds Ford, was named to the University of Mississippi's Fall 2021 Honor Roll lists. Breeding was named to the Honor Roll, which is reserved for students who earn a semester GPA of 3.75-4.00. • Reilly Green, of Chadds Ford, was honored for academic achievement by being named to the Dean's List at Delaware Valley University for the Fall 2021 semester. •…
Katie Connolly, an eighth-grader at Charles F. Patton Middle School, took first place as Chester County’s top speller in the Chester County Spelling Bee on Monday, February 7, 2022. Winning with the word “antenatus” (A-N-T-E-N-A-T-U-S), Connolly will move on to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in June. “I think it will be fun to go to Washington, D.C. and I’m looking forward to…