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Radio Talk Show Host Fails to Study School Consolidation for Fayette County Study
Not Enough Said project of: Net the Truth Online
Rep. Mahoney Reading Not Enough Said? Poses Study Could Show No Savings by Admin. Consolidation?
Fayette Special: Model for Other Power Grabbing PA State Legislators to Follow
PA Rep. Tim Mahoney Proposal to House Education Cmte Shows Goal To Wrest Local Control
County-wide School District Legislation Allows Board of Commissioners Authority to Equalize District
Not Enough Said on This Issue Site per Proposal for Fayette Vo-Tech/STEM Center
Confirmation Why Herald-Standard Didn't Question Rep. About His Advisory Committee
Plan for Countywide School District Consolidation = Fayette Forward Strategic Plan
Report PA School Consolidation Cost Effectiveness
Rep. Mahoney Claims After Consolidation Savings 15% to 20% Where We Ask?
Is Rep. Tim Mahoney About to Change Structure of School Administration All on His Own?
Herald-Standard & Rep. Tim Mahoney in League to Bait & Switch Public
Candidates for School Directors On the Fence or Supportive Urged to View Wealth of Critical Studies
Herald-Standard Disappointed School Board Candidates Not All Rosey County Consolidation
Study: consolidation of school districts into larger units leads to higher dropout rate!
We Can Hear It Now Some of my Opponents Don't Want The People To Decide
We Can Hear it Now: Are You Against the People Deciding Consolidation Choice
Report PA School Boards Association Study on Consolidation 2009
Cost Savings Claimed 2 Years Before Local Study Begins Now Claim Lowered!
Bid Process? Study Weighted to Cost-Savings Due to Results for Center & Monaca Consolidations?
Does Consolidation into Large District Save Costs?
Did Merged Districts Hold True to Standard & Poor Study: Taxes May Rise in 1 District
Merged Monaca & Center School Districts Less than 2,999 Students!
First Eliminate School Property Taxes, Candidate Says, Then We'll See @ Consolidation?
Central Valley School District: Archetype for (Fayette) County-wide Consolidation?
What is the Impact of Consolidation (into larger district) on Students?
What is the Impact of Consolidation (into larger district) on Rural Community?
No Public Referendum Required for Two or More School Districts to Merge
PA Economy League Report Municipal and School District Functional Mergers & Structural Consolidation
Experts Slam Consolidation Small/Medium Size Districts into Larger One
Not Enough Said Requests Talk Show Host Read Standard & Poor Study
Legislation Designed to Enable Boards of County Commissioners Power to Place Measure on Ballot
Article: PA Legislators Push Plans for School Consolidation
Fayette School Director Candidates Take Opposing View of Countywide Consolidation Plan
Get It Spot On and Don't Cover Up When You Don't
Unified Countywide School District for "Taxation Purposes"
Uniformity in the Course of Study in the Schools of the Several Grades
Rep. Mahoney Meets With Herald Standard Editorial Board
PA Dept. of Ed. Retirees Now Education Management Group Consultants to Conduct Study
Promise Local Sub-districts in Countywide School Retain Local Identity
Book of Quotes by Not Enough Said
Links per county-wide school consolidation issue
Contact Me
Stop Uniform Curriculum County-Wide School Consolidation Power Grab
Fayette County Commissioner Candidates Responses to School Regionalization Question
Tribune-Review article per PA school consolidation legislation
Article: Region to Benefit from 2 New STEM Education Centers
Herald-Standard Article: Unity between Business and Education Needed in Fayette County
Marcellus Shale Gas Program of Interest Not an Endorsement
Radio Talk Show Host: Gas Impact Concerns Citizens Demand DEP Resolve
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We have taken an unwavering position opposing the idea of a "uniform curriculum" in the "several grades for which they were established" to be installed in the county-wide school district as proposed in Rep. Tim Mahoney's former legislation, House Bill 351.
 

Common Core Curriculum danger ahead

The PA Economy League Report is a must-read on the history, current law, etc. regarding municpality and school district mergers and consolidations.
 

In researching the issue of countywide school consolidation as proposed by PA state Rep. Tim Mahoney, we have had cause to focus heavily on Fay-Penn Economic Development Council and its Strategic Plan for Fayette County known interchangeably as Fayette Forward and Vision 20/20.

It is our opinion, a strong opinion, that Rep. Mahoney's Plan is not only inclusive of the approach to education Fay-Penn takes, one larger unified approach, with a call for one cyber school, one vocational-technical school, and recommendation toward uniform curriculum.  Rep. Mahoney's Plan and Fay-Penn's Strategic Plan are undeniably one and the same.

 

Not Enough Said:
 

We are taking some time to explore Rep. Tim Mahoney's newsmaking comments here:
 

Mahoney said EMG was selected to perform the study because both Boyer and Stainbrook are already familiar with the county's districts, having performed independent studies in each in the past.

"I think that brings a little credibility and more fluency where we can try to do this study in an open and honest way to get the honest numbers to show what the honest outcome will be," Mahoney said"

http://www.heraldstandard.com/news/local_news/school-district-consolidation-study-to-begin/article_8945ac45-6710-50c8-83a4-ecbb6c48c735.html

We are taken with what isn't said, and that's why we are here.

And that's why we are highlighting this page: PA Dept. of Ed. Retirees Now Education Management Group Consultants to Conduct Study

 

Rep. Tim Mahoney's HB 351 needs further attention as we discuss on the site.
 
The measure is not designed exclusively for 'Administrative' consolidation purposes as we discuss here. 
 
 
The legislation is unable to mandate any budget cuts for existing teacher salary contracts, and Rep. Mahoney has already mentioned salaries would be equalized across the countywide district.  We know where that is headed. 
 
The measure cannot guarantee once the independent districts are consolidated into one countywide governing body, they will indeed keep local identity.  Rep. Mahoney has already mentioned "some schools will be closed." 
 
The measure cannot guarantee costs per pupil will decrease as a result of consolidation of smaller districts into one larger unit.  Rep. Mahoney fails to mention the Standard and Poor Study and its breakdown of when costs rise.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 PA State Rep. Mahoney School Consolidation Plan includes Uniform Curriculum

 
Uniformity in the Course of Study in the Several Grades
 

Text of Mahoney Legislation HB 351

Section 1081. Duties of Superintendents.--The duties of district superintendents shall be to visit personally as often as practicable the several schools under his supervision, to note the courses and methods of instruction and branches taught, to give such directions in the art and methods of teaching in each school as he deems expedient and necessary, [and] to report to the board of school directors any insufficiency found, so that each school shall be equal to the grade for which it was established and that there may be, as far as practicable, uniformity in the courses of study in the schools of the several grades, to hire professional, temporary professional or nonprofessional employes and such other duties as may be required by the board of school directors.

http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&sessYr=2009&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=0351&pn=0382

 Study on the Cost-Effectiveness of Consolidating School Districts Volume 2 Analysis and Profile Pairing two school districts Brownsville Area School District Fayette County Jefferson-Morgan School District Greene County

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