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WNEP-TV School Closings 400 - Fri, Feb. 26th

2010-02-26T00:06:00.000-05:00

From WNEP-TV's School Closing Alerts...

At 12:05am, Delaware Valley is listed as CLOSED Today

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WNEP-TV School Closings 400 - Thu, Feb. 25th

2010-02-25T19:00:00.001-05:00

From WNEP-TV's School Closing Alerts...

At 7:00pm, Delaware Valley is listed as CLOSED Tomorrow

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WNEP-TV School Closings 400 - Thu, Feb. 25th

2010-02-25T00:05:00.000-05:00

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WNEP-TV School Closings 400 - Wed, Feb. 24th

2010-02-24T22:05:00.001-05:00

From WNEP-TV's School Closing Alerts...

At 10:05pm, Delaware Valley is listed as CLOSED Tomorrow

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WNEP-TV School Closings 400 - Wed, Feb. 24th

2010-02-24T00:05:00.001-05:00

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WNEP-TV School Closings 400 - Tue, Feb. 23rd

2010-02-23T22:15:00.001-05:00

From WNEP-TV's School Closing Alerts...

At 10:15pm, Delaware Valley is listed as CLOSED Tomorrow

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WNEP-TV School Closings 400 - Mon, Feb. 22nd

2010-02-22T13:05:00.001-05:00

From WNEP-TV's School Closing Alerts...

At 1:05pm, Delaware Valley is listed as NO AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

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WNEP-TV School Closings 400 - Tue, Feb. 16th

2010-02-16T10:50:00.001-05:00

From WNEP-TV's School Closing Alerts...

At 10:50am, Delaware Valley is listed as DISMISS HS & MS AT NOON ELEMENTARY 1 PM

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WNEP-TV School Closings 400 - Thu, Feb. 11th

2010-02-11T00:06:00.000-05:00

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At 12:05am, Delaware Valley is listed as CLOSED Today School Board Mtg. PPD Parent/ Teacher Conf. PPD

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WNEP-TV School Closings 400 - Wed, Feb. 10th

2010-02-10T21:00:00.001-05:00

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At 9:00pm, Delaware Valley is listed as CLOSED Tomorrow School Board Mtg. PPD Parent/ Teacher Conf. PPD

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WNEP-TV School Closings 400 - Wed, Feb. 10th

2010-02-10T08:35:00.001-05:00

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At 8:35am, Delaware Valley is listed as CLOSED Today

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WNEP-TV School Closings 400 - Tue, Feb. 9th

2010-02-09T22:10:00.001-05:00

From WNEP-TV's School Closing Alerts...

At 10:10pm, Delaware Valley is listed as CLOSED Tomorrow

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WNEP-TV School Closings 400 - Wed, Feb. 3rd

2010-02-03T05:10:00.001-05:00

From WNEP-TV's School Closing Alerts...

At 5:10am, Delaware Valley is listed as 2 HR DELAY

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DV to stop sending email notifications of meeting changes to the press

2010-01-15T17:19:00.001-05:00

The following comes from former school board candidate Bill Greenlaw:

Please note that as of yesterday the Delaware Valley School District has apparently decided not to send the email updates or changes for the School Board Meeting schedule.

Please note that there are two meetings of the Board's Curriculum Committee scheduled:
January 25, 2010 at 6pm in the HS Library Media room
February 8, 2010 will be held at 6:00 in the HS Library Media room

Until this is resolved, I will try to update you on any meetings that I find have been added, deleted or changed. I believe that we may be able to find a way to get electronic notification from the district, but this may take some further discussion. ...

Feel free to use my unofficial Google calendar if you want the current schedule. Click on any event to see the location, some additional details, and a Google map for the location. You can also subscribe to an RSS feed from that calendar so that any changes will be sent to a reader that you may use.

If you are a Google calendar user already you can overlay this calendar onto your Google calendar.

Feel free to contact me if you see any errors or have any comments.

Hope this is helpful.

BFA meeting canceled

2010-01-12T15:18:00.000-05:00

The BFA has been cancelled for Thursday, January 14, 2010.

Updated meeting schedule for January

2010-01-11T09:52:00.003-05:00

TO: BOARD MEMBERS, ADMINISTRATORS

FROM: LAURIE MILLER

DATE: DECEMBER 18, 2009

RE: UPCOMING BOARD MEETINGS, COMMITTEE MEETINGS – JANUARY 2010

Budget, Finance & Audit Committee Meeting
(Tuesday) January 5, 2010 - 8:00 AM – Delaware Valley Administrative Offices
(Tuesday) January 12, 2010 - 8:00 AM – Delaware Valley Administrative Offices

(Thursday) January 14, 2010
Budget, Finance & Audit Committee Meeting - 6:00 PM – Shohola Elementary School Cafeteria
Work Session- 7:00 PM – Shohola Elementary School Cafeteria

(Thursday) January 21, 2010
Facilities Meeting - 6:00 PM – Shohola Elementary School Cafeteria
Regular Board Meeting - 7:00 PM – Shohola Elementary School Cafeteria

WNEP-TV School Closings 400 - Fri, Jan. 8th

2010-01-08T05:30:00.001-05:00

From WNEP-TV's School Closing Alerts...

At 5:30am, Delaware Valley is listed as 2 HR DELAY

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SpringBoard: Listen to the parents, students, teachers

2010-01-01T22:50:00.002-05:00

To the editor:

The community is in an uproar over the new SpringBoard curriculum at the Delaware Valley schools.

Before this major education policy change was made, the district should have taken more input from its stakeholders: parents, students, teachers. Instead, those stakeholders are now reacting to SpringBoard – and it isn’t pretty.

SpringBoard is a curriculum sold by the College Board to prepare students for its Advanced Placement (AP) tests.

The College Board is a “non-profit” organization that pushes the agenda of “college for everyone,” which, let’s be honest, really just means tens-of-thousands-of-dollars-in-debt-and-four-years-of-summer-camp-and-frat-parties for everyone – a $160,000 slip of paper that can’t guarantee a graduate a job with a salary that is more than the tuition rate their parents paid for four years.

That digression aside, what the College Board doesn’t publicize is where your taxes, which fund SpringBoard, are going: Its CEO’s $830,000 salary and the organization’s half a BILLION dollars in profit every year. Some “non” profit, huh?

And if the College Board’s unsatisfactory record with the Better Business Bureau doesn’t make SpringBoard look bad enough – the students, parents and teachers hate it.

DV apparently communicated poorly with its stakeholders while planning and implementing SpringBoard. Parents and students are complaining at school board meetings, in the newspapers, even on Facebook.

Some of the district’s best teachers say off the record they felt left out of the process – that they weren’t asked to evaluate the curriculum they’re now forced to teach. Springboard is harming the children in our community, they say. Some top teachers say the administration is suppressing their opposition, and they don’t want to put up with the nonsense.

The administration and school board need to seriously take their stakeholders’ opinions into consideration – especially its teachers.

Hopefully those in power can clean things up before our best teachers get fed up and before our students’ education is put in more jeopardy.

To the new decade,

Ryan Balton
DV ’07
Syracuse, N.Y.

WNEP-TV School Closings 400 - Wed, Dec. 9 9:06:35 am

2009-12-09T09:06:00.001-05:00

From WNEP-TV's School Closing Alerts...

At 9:00am, Delaware Valley is listed as CLOSED Today

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October meetings scheduled

2009-09-21T10:43:00.001-04:00

Memo from the district office:

TO: BOARD MEMBERS ADMINISTRATORS

FROM: LAURIE MILLER

DATE: SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

RE: UPCOMING BOARD MEETING, COMMITTEE MEETING – OCTOBER 2009

(Thursday) October 8, 2009

Policy Meeting

6:00 PM – Shohola Elementary School Cafeteria

Work Session

7:00 PM – Shohola Elementary School Cafeteria

(Thursday) October 22, 2009

Regular Board Meeting

7:00 PM – Shohola Elementary School Cafeteria

Football tonight

2009-09-11T02:26:00.002-04:00

Tonight's DV football game will broadcast at KJBroadcasting.com, according to The Gazette. Check out more about the football team's fundraising campaign for stadium improvements and last week's game.

And if you want more than just football coverage, check out my cousin Dan's column in The Gazette.

TV report on DV budget, more newslinks

2009-08-28T21:42:00.003-04:00

Budget battle: Politics over paychecks? from WNEP
State aid to schools payments delayed, again from PoconoNews.Net
Delaware Valley schedules Warrior Festival Sept. 4 from Varsity 845
Delaware Valley Football Preview from the Pike County Press
Day of Caring in Pike County on Sept. 12 from the Pocono Record
Student Super-Achievers Ready for New School Year from the Pike County Press

August meeting recap

2009-08-21T18:24:00.003-04:00

August agenda on BoardDocs
Video from the meeting from the Pike County Youth Coalition
Delaware Valley holding its own despite state budget impasse from PoconoNews.Net

In the news: Elections board seeks recanvass of votes, PCYC webcasts first board meeting

2009-08-05T21:19:00.003-04:00

In the Pike County Press:

In the Pike County Courier:

Students ease board access

Note: according to Pike County Youth Coalition executive director Nick Troiano, School Board 2.0 is a project of the youth coalition, not a new, separate organization as the article in the Courier states.

In the news: Board meeting coverage from Pike Co Press

2009-07-23T16:02:00.003-04:00

From the Pike County Courier:

DVES artist

From the Pike County Press:

OPINION: This bit from the safety committee meeting article, Safe or Unsafe?, was of particular interest to me:

The letter outlined findings of a May 19 safety survey of the district’s main school complex. The letter also stated a request that police be given camera access to help expedite response in case of an emergency.

“Being able to utilize the cameras already in place in the school would increase valuable time and response, as well as being able to isolate an incident into a hallway or quadrant rather than the entire school,” wrote Stewart.

But allowing police to tap into the district’s security video system would essentially open a hole in the firewall, creating the potential for viruses, worms, hackers and other problems, officials said.

“I think it would be unwise for us to open up our network,” said Superintendent Candis Finan. “We would be vulnerable to all sorts of issues with our networks.”

The thing is, DV's network already is open. Ever been to dvsd.org? The district's Web site was originally hosted on a server inside the high school, and DV World still is.

Not to mention, any major company, any university and many K-12 school districts offer access over the Internet to resources on their networks. Have you been to the bank lately? Used a credit card? All of your financial data is traveling across the Internet, even if you're at the bank or charging your card in person.

It's true that the way to stay as invulnerable as possible is to keep the network closed, but it's a myth to think that opening the network is unsafe, especially for something like police access to that multi-hundred-thousand dollar video surveillance system the taxpayers funded.