Education
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TCHS Students Travel to Coatesville VA Medical Center to Give Veterans a ‘Day of Beauty’
Local heroes and heroines basked in the star treatment they deserve this Veterans Day, thanks to 16 cosmetology and barbering students and their instructors from Downingtown’s Technical College High School Brandywine Campus. “I’m an Army brat; my father passed away 11 years ago, so this is important to me,” instructor Deborah L. McDonaugh said. “The…
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CCEDC and Penn State Great Valley Announce Forum on Impact of Wearable Technology
By Suzanne Cruit, Penn State Great Valley From smart watches to smart glasses to personal safety devices, the wearable technology market is a game-changing industry projected to hit $5 billion in sales worldwide this year. As part of the ongoing Igniting Innovation series, Penn State Great Valley and the Chester County Economic Development Council present…
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Delaware County Community College A ‘Military Friendly’ School
By Delaware County Community College, Delaware County Community College has been designated a 2016 Military Friendly® School by Victory Media, publisher of G.I. Jobs® and Military Spouse. Now in its seventh year, the Military Friendly® Schools designation provides service members and their families with transparent, data-driven ratings about post-military education and career opportunities. “Post-secondary institutions…
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Delaware County Community College Holding Adult Student Back-To-School Night
From the Delaware County Community College: Have you been thinking about going back to school but aren’t sure where to start or are nervous about being in a classroom with students young enough to be your children? Or maybe you’re afraid that you are not technologically savvy enough or are unsure how you’ll balance work,…
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Budget Holdout Unplugs Cyber School Center
Screens went dark at an Exton cyber school learning center this week, victimized by the drought in state aid coming from Harrisburg as Pennsylvania continues its run without a budget. The Wayne-headquartered Education Plus Academy Cyber Charter School closed its Exton Brandywine Achievement Center and sent 12 students to its other tutoring centers or to…
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Local Students Get Their Game On At FIRST Tech Challenge
With a few taps on their cell phones, 80 aspiring engineers toyed with complex robots during a regional introduction to robotics programming as part of the Pennsylvania FIRST Tech Challenge. But the two-part, hands-on and minds-on workshop wasn’t just fun and games for the middle- and high-school students; it’s one step closer to this year’s…
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Capitol Rally Could Be Cheyney University’s Last Chance
The nation’s oldest historically black university has been fighting to get out from under the thumb of institutional discrimination for decades, and a rally in Harrisburg this week could be Cheyney University’s last chance to break with its troubled history. “Advocates say decades of discrimination by the state system and foot-dragging on other court cases…
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In Fall from Top, STEM Academy Gives Up Coveted Achievement Title
The county’s two-time top performer among Pennsylvania schools failed to deliver the knockout punch this past spring, but Downingtown STEM Academy still managed to come away with a top five ranking. The high school finished just ahead of West Chester Bayard Rustin, which claimed sixth place, on this year’s School Performance Profile measurement of student…
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Moody’s, Unhappy with Budget Impasse, Downgrades School Districts’ Credit Ratings
Investment rating service Moody’s has shouted a warning to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania this week; its mechanisms to help struggling school districts obtain favorable debt terms and rescue them from default are now much less helpful. Thanks to the ongoing state budget battle, Moody’s downgraded numerous public school districts’ enhancement program bond ratings, and the…
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Higher Hurdles Set For Nurses As Hospitals Require More-Advanced Degrees
Megan Goodman, a 30-year-old Downingtown resident earned her associate degree in nursing from the Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences in May, finishing her education as a dean’s list student while serving on two student nursing boards. However, while in previous years, that would mean near certain employment, Goodman is still in the process of finding…
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Chester County Business Briefs
Two Chester County School District’s are Ranked Top 20 Nationally Tredyffrin-Easttown and Unionville-Chadds Ford School Districts have been ranked 3rd and 15th respectively in this year’s list of the top 20 school districts in the U.S compiled by ranking and review site Niche.com. The data used to determine the ranking is gathered from government and…
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Delaware County Community College & West Chester University to Spur Conversations about Culture and Identity Using DNA
Delaware County Community College President Dr. Jerry Parker, faculty members and a student will participate at 11:10 a.m., Tuesday, October 27 in “Unraveling the Tapestry of Your DNA: What Are Your Origins,” a panel discussion that is part of a broader, joint initiative between the College and West Chester University known as the “DNA Discussion…
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New $1.4M Goddard School Being Built To Serve Chester County Preschoolers
The growing childcare and preschool franchise focused on learning through play is turning the page to a new chapter on Chester County’s northern border. A brand new $1.4 million Goddard School is being built in Collegeville to serve area communities, including Kimberton and Phoenixville in Chester County. The 10,000-square-foot early childhood development center for children…
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Second “Be Alive and Thrive” Event Held in Exton Square Mall on Saturday
It is incredibly sad to see any life end prematurely, and all too often we see people choosing suicide as they think that it is their only option, be it a teenagers, parents, veterans or senior citizens. In the hopes of helping improve suicide prevention, the Second Annual “Be Alive & Thrive” event was held…
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Chester County Business Briefs
Briefs are short stories that bring you up to date with what’s happening around the county. This Morning: U.S. Government Approves the Sale of Nine Sikorsky Black Hawks to Saudi Arabia The sale to Saudi Arabia of nine UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters built by Sikorsky Aircraft has been approved by the U.S. government. The Pentagon’s…
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Chester County Business Briefs
Over 500 Schools Overlooked by PDE Says Auditor General DePasquale According to two recent performance audits of the Pennsylvania Department of Education, the department has not provided satisfactory assistance to 561 academically challenged schools with 310,000 enrolled students reports Auditor General, Eugene DePasquale. Several schools from the Coatesville, Octorara, and Oxford school districts are on…
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WCU President Announces his Retirement from the University
After seven years of successful leadership, West Chester University President, Greg Weisenstein, used his annual state-of-the university address to announce his plan to retire from WCU. Weisenstein admitted that the decision was not an easy one for him and he could not hide his pride at having been a part of the WCU community. “The…
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Chester County Leadership: Joe O’Brien, CCIU Executive Director
When Dr. Joseph O’Brien became Executive Director of Chester County Intermediate Unit in 2007 he became Chester County’s highest profile public education official. With an annual budget of $203 million and a staff of 1,514 serving 38,115 students across all twelve Chester County school districts, leading the Chester County Intermediate Unit is not a job…
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