Education
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Westtown School Educated Philly Mayoral Contender Is Also Unlikely Charter School Ally
West Chester’s own Westtown School can claim a large stake in the success of state Sen. and Philly mayoral candidate Anthony Hardy Williams, who cherished his Quaker boarding school education and went on to eventually found the Hardy Williams Academy in honor of his father and become an outspoken proponent of charter school choice, even as he…
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Wells Fargo Grant Enriches Road To Success For Disadvantaged Local Students
A $5,000 grant from Chester County’s Wells Fargo Bank branches will further enrich Chester County Futures’ efforts to provide economically disadvantaged students with a Passport to College through not only its enrichment curriculum but also volunteer mentoring. “In addition to this meaningful financial contribution, Wells Fargo helps to deliver our financial literacy curriculum, providing professional volunteers in…
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Malvern’s CfPIE To Train International Society Members
The Center for Professional Innovation and Education, a Malvern-based life sciences technical trainer, recently added more than 2,200 global data managers to its roster of clients thanks to a new partnership with their overarching organization, the Society for Clinical Data Management. The move is expected to make pharmaceutical-related data learning more affordable for industry professionals…
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Dinniman, Harrison Make Case For Increasing Cheyney, Lincoln Enrollment
Pointing to the impact cuts in education funding has on economically struggling school districts and Chester County’s two historically Black universities, State Senator Andy Dinniman over the weekend called on Pennsylvania law makers to allow high school juniors and seniors to earn college credits while still in high school. In an Op-Ed piece in Harrisburg’s…
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West Chester School District Seeks Board Candidates, Legislative Committee Volunteers
The West Chester Area School District is reaching out to citizens interested in running for the school board in the May 2015 primary election, and to those who would like to serve as volunteers on the district’s Legislative Action Committee. “School Board 101” will begin at 7 p.m. in the district’s Spellman Administration Building on…
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RC Taylor Group, Chester County Historical Society, Launch Steps Initiative
The West Chester consulting firm RC Taylor Group has gifted the Chester County Historical Society with an educational outreach program, the StEPs Initiative, aimed at strengthening the museum and up to a hundred history organizations and commissions in the county. The program, to begin early this year, is a capacity building program for history organizations…
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Pipeline Project Will Give Downingtown Area School District A $500,000 Boost
The Downingtown Area School District will this year receive a $500,000 payment from Columbia Gas for an easement to put a pipeline through the property of three Downingtown schools, CBS Philly is reporting. Columbia Gas will put 9.5-mile pipeline through Chester County and nearly a mile of it cuts through Downingtown Middle School, Shamona Creek…
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Coatesville Community Education Foundation Brings Readorium To Local Schools, YMCA
The Coatesville Community Education Foundation is working with the Brandywine YMCA and local educators to bring Readorium software to students to help them improve their reading and science comprehension. On Jan. 9 the CCEF met with teachers from the Coatesville Kids to College and the YMCA’s Believe and Achieve After School programs for software training.…
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Commercial Property Owners Experience School District’s Pinch
Caught in a battle to fund public education, owners of local apartment complexes are feeling the heat as school district business managers extract more revenue from commercial property owners across the region. In a cover story in last week’s Philadelphia Business Journal, reporter Natalie Kostelni tells the story of the conflict that arose when the…
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Wharton School Team Wins 2014 Entrepreneur Magazine Contest
Entrepreneur® magazine has selected a team from the nearby Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania as a winner in the magazine’s Entrepreneur of 2014 contest. Wharton junior Aaron Goldstein is CEO and co-founder of Fever Smart, a wearable device that measures body temperature, sends readings to mobile devices and sets off an…
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Oxford School District Renames High School Auditorium In Honor Of James S. Herr
Oxford Area High School’s auditorium is now the James S. Herr Auditorium in honor of the founder of Herr Foods, the Chester County Press is reporting. Herr, who passed away in 2012 at the age of 87, lived in the Oxford district for 60 years and served as a school board president for 12 of…
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West Chester University Works With PLCB To Stem Underage, Dangerous Drinking
West Chester University is one of five institutions working with the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board to develop a Town-Gown Pilot Project to prevent underage and dangerous drinking on and around college campuses. Kutztown University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Alvernia College and Caron Treatment Centers are also participating in the project, funded by a $15,000 grant…
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Young West Chester Artists Stage Holiday Art Show At Exton Mall Gallery
Never mind that visit to Santa – art created by West Chester Area School District students is on display at the Exton Square Mall Gallery. The gallery is open from 5 to 8 p.m. Fridays and from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturdays until Dec. 21. Approximately 75 pieces including drawings, paintings, sculptures, photography and…
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Free Online Course From Bentley Explores 3D Hypermodels
A new online training course from Exton architectural software developer Bentley Systems explains how hypermodels help turn 2D documentation into a visual 3D model, “saving time and reducing costly changes by verifying that models are adequately documented to ensure proper construction,” the LEARN course syllabus stated. “Using hypermodels can be extremely beneficial in your building projects,…
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Report Finds Women Underrepresented At Academic Medicine’s Top
Education Management Solutions of Exton is reporting that although women make up about one-third of the full-time academic medicine workforce, they are underrepresented in key faculty and leadership positions. EMS has online the Association of American Medical College’s biennial report, The State of Women in Academic Medicine: The Pipeline and Pathways to Leadership 2013–2014–you can…
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Step Right Up To The Technical College High School Experience
There’s something unique going on at Downingtown’s Brandywine campus of the Technical College High School, and school officials are not afraid of showing it off. “This is not your father or mother’s vocational-technical school,” Chester County Intermediate Unit Executive Director Joseph O’Brien said in a recent announcement. “Chester County Technical College High School is both a…
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Growing Business Program Prompts New Gothic Building At West Chester University
Business is thriving at West Chester University; it’s college of business and public affairs, that is. The growth that scattered departments all across campus has now prompted a groundbreaking for a new $39 million hall, according to a Philadelphia Business Journal report. The five-story, 90,000-square-foot academic structure will rise by 2016 from the ashes of McCarthy…
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CCIU Helps Downingtown Library Prepare For Move
Chester County Intermediate Unit is putting out a call to help move Downingtown’s Free Library at 330 East Lancaster Avenue, a location the library has called home since 1914, to its new location in the Micken Building at 122 Wallace Avenue, a ten minute walk to the other side of Route 30. The Thorndale-Downingtown Rotary…
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