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Post by bfgrad on May 14, 2021 6:33:59 GMT -5
Even though Beaver county has a county-wide vo-tech school, the Midland school board decided to go ahead and approve yet another charter school offering vo-tech education.
I'm not sure why a school board for a school district for a population that cannot even support a high school is even allowed to charter schools. It appears this school is being funded by a grant from the Pennsylvania Coalition of Charter Schools. That begs the question of why a charter schools have so much extra money they can afford their own foundation to hand out Ms of dollars in grants.
Here's a prediction, in a year or so, this school will be battling Aliquippa to recruit the best football players around.
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Post by steamrollers1 on May 14, 2021 16:52:36 GMT -5
For that matter they'll start buying Aliquippa football & basketball players at the very first opportunity.
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Post by coach99 on Jun 10, 2021 10:12:43 GMT -5
I think that these online charter schools should only receive a minimum payment for a transfer student. It should not be the same amount given if a student goes to another brick and morter school. Public schools are being sucked dry by paying these funds for a kid to sit at home.
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Post by bfgrad on Jun 10, 2021 11:37:22 GMT -5
This is a brick and mortar, not a cyber, school. It's a vo-tech, training for the trades.
As for the online schools, the covid19 school in person learning closures and switch to video/online learning showed just exactly how poorly most kids do in that environment.
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Post by baldwintrack on Jun 10, 2021 17:39:06 GMT -5
SEems be me one of the few things both political parties agree on is the importance of trade skills and supporting trade unions (not publicly funded unions).
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Post by coach99 on Jun 12, 2021 10:48:38 GMT -5
This is a brick and mortar, not a cyber, school. It's a vo-tech, training for the trades. As for the online schools, the covid19 school in person learning closures and switch to video/online learning showed just exactly how poorly most kids do in that environment. If I am correct..this 'brick and mortar' school in Midland was built on the money that the 'founder' of the Pa Cyber school collected from all the schools and then deals he made selling curriculms back to districts, etc. He did some jail time for that financial empire he built. Former school principal or counselor that hit it big by working a scheme that no one really understood at the time. |
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Post by tiger4lyfe on Jul 6, 2021 7:57:06 GMT -5
I fail to see how this is a bad thing.
If you actually read the article , Nick Trombetta isn't mentioned at all.
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Post by baldwintrack on Jul 6, 2021 16:22:23 GMT -5
Better than telling kids they need a college degree and then having them come out $200k in debt with no job prospects that pay more than $15/hour.
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Post by coach99 on Jul 6, 2021 19:53:58 GMT -5
The worse thing I saw happen was when the Pittsburgh Public Schools closed down Connelly Tech. This school turned out thousands of plumbers, electricans, etc and had a strong Nursing program going when the district pulled the plug. I have always felt there was somethng shady about this whole thing. I can't recall who the Superintendent was at the time, but he was brought in from somewhere to fix the district. He was a fancy dressed guy that was a great talker. He ordered the school to stop advertising the programs they offered and, of course, numbers dropped in enrollment since fewer people were learning about Connlley. I don't know, but that building sits on a prime piece of land in town right up next to where the Civic Arena was. I just think this guy had some proposed deal make that land available..I think at that time there was talk of putting a Casino up in that area.....who knows. But at any rate a top tech program died and years later people ask why no tech programs? I don't know what the PPS are using the building for now..still sitting up there with the ghosts of so many trained people haunting the halls.
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