Pennsylvania School Entity Requests for Approval to Curtail Programs Submitted to the Pennsylvania Department of Education April November 2011

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1 Appendix B: Pennsylvania School Entity Requests for Approval to Curtail Programs Submitted to the Pennsylvania Department of Education April November

2 Appendix B Pennsylvania School Entity Requests for Approval to Curtail Programs Submitted to the Pennsylvania Department of Education April November 2011 SCHOOL ENTITY AIU3 Allentown Apollo Ridge Avella Area Bangor Area Bellefonte Bethel Park Bethlehem Bloomsburg Request to alter and reorganize Programs and Services Division. Request to eliminate and streamline courses in areas of early childhood, elementary education, general academic secondary program, special education, ESOL, and student support programs. Request to curtail elementary reading program, world language, technology education, and physical education. Request to alter kindergarten program, library program, and administrative program. Request to curtail elementary program, reduce K to half-day, alter Art, music, library, guidance, support aides and instructors, middle school program, physical education/health, special education, curtail elective courses, alter core content program. Request to eliminate sixth-grade foreign language program and high school Foundations of Technology program. Request to eliminate third-grade strings program and elementary foreign language program and to alter staffing levels in grades K, one, two, and five and to alter middle school social studies program. Request to alter pre-k program, reduce Kindergarten to half day, reduce number of elementary classes, reorganize middle and high school scheduling, increase high school guidance caseload, eliminate teacher coaching program, alter ESOL program. Request to curtail family and consumer science program. 35

3 Bristol Twp. Brookville Area Bucks Co. IU 22 Burgettstown Catasaqua Central Westmoreland CTC Cheltenham Chestnut Ridge Chichester Coatesville Colonial Conemaugh Valley Request to eliminate French and German programs, eliminate some AP classes, alter ninth-grade academy, kindergarten, elementary art and music, and alt ed programs. Request to reduce elementary sections and reorganize secondary schedule to reduce number of sections in English, reading, and technology. Request to curtail two autistic support program classes and two language learning support program classes as a result of request to return autistic and language learning support classes to Bensalem School District. Four special ed. teachers given option to transfer. Two accepted. Request to eliminate instrumental music program. Request to curtail elementary program by altering class size, alter special ed. program and eliminate instrumental music; to curtail middle school program by eliminating Spanish, German and Computer Music and altering other courses; to curtail high school program by combining health/physical education and eliminating some electives. Request to curtail career development program. Request to curtail middle school administration program and dean of students program, eliminate high school department chairs, curtail home and school visitor and K-4 strings program. Request to curtail Family and Consumer Science program. Request to curtail high school Title I math, science and business ed. programs, middle school art, foreign language and math coach program and alter middle and elementary staffing levels. Request to curtail middle school world language, computer application, library and music programs, to curtail Kindergarten A program, and to alter elementary staffing levels. Request to curtail special education program by eliminating a transition coordinator and curtail career counseling program. Request to curtail pre-k program. 36

4 Conestoga Valley Corry Crestwood Dallastown Area Daniel Boone Donegal East Pennsboro Eastern Center for Arts & Technology Eastern Lebanon Request to curtail high school guidance program, RTII program, early childhood reading program and elementary technology coach and physical education programs. Request to reduce the number of elementary teachers due to reduced enrollment and reduce the number of teachers for family & consumer science due to reduced enrollment and reduced credit requirements. Request to alter programs to eliminate one English position, one middle school foreign language position, one music position, and five elementary programs and to curtail full-day kindergarten to a half-day program. Request to alter music department, business education, curtail driver s ed, alter intermediate and middle school reading programs, alter elementary library program, alter math remediation and literacy coach programs, alter middle and high school consumer science, and alter K-3 technology integration program. Request to alter kindergarten program. Second request to alter elementary band and middle school world language program. Request to curtail program to reorganize the middle school unified arts program and adjust courses to eliminate family and consumer science. Request to curtail elementary computer and music programs and middle school Spanish program. Request to curtail the Landscape Contracting Program from two sections per day to one section per day. Request to curtail high school TV communications program. 37

5 Elizabethtown Erie Everett Fleetwood Fort Cherry Franklin Co. CTC Greater Altoona Career & Technical Center Greater Latrobe Greater Nanticoke Greenwood Hampton Twp Hanover Request to alter world language, business, family consumer science, music, art, and pathways/health/physical ed. Request to alter staffing levels at K-12; to adjust special education caseloads; to realign Title I assignments; to reconfigure teaching assignments at the intermediate levels; to alter the family and consumer science, business, and literacy coach programs; to alter the library, music, art, and PE programs at the elementary level; to eliminate the elementary Spanish, the pull-out alternative education, and the high school department facilitator programs; to eliminate certain career and technical education courses. Request to alter library and special education programs. Request to alter driver s education, physical education, instrumental music, elementary library, elementary and secondary art, music, and computer, business education, technology education, world language, and psychological services programs. Request to alter health/pe, media production, driver s ed, elementary, elementary music, business, guidance, library, English programs. Request to alter guidance program. Request to curtail special education transition program. Request to alter business & technology program, physical education, family & consumer science and curtail driver s education and instructional technical support program. Request to curtail elementary music, art, and PE programs and to curtail high school business, secondary math intervention, elementary speech intervention, gifted, special education, and elementary education programs. Request alteration of the library science education program. Request curtailment of the academic support program (PSSA tutorial program). Request curtailment of industrial arts program and elimination of social worker position. 38

6 Hatboro-Horsham Haverford Twp Hazelton Homer-Center Huntingdon Co. CTC Indiana Co. Tech Ctr. Iroquois IU 3 Kennett Consolidated Lackawanna Trail Lake Lehman Request to alter education programs to reduce elementary library support and instruction, reduce middle school math, science, English and phys ed. and eliminate instructional technology specialist, high school business and consumer science, social studies, and family consumer science. Request to alter/curtail the elementary library program. Request to curtail/alter high school English, biology, chemistry, phys ed. & health, art and guidance. Request for curtailment (elimination) of wood shop (computer technology systems) communications program, drivers education; request for alteration (reduction) family & consumer sciences, music, art, library services, and reduce the number of elementary grade level sections including kindergarten and math remedial classes. Request to eliminate English program. Request to eliminate reading program. Request to curtail kindergarten program (reduce full-day to halfday); request to alter or curtail secondary offerings in family & consumer sciences, art, library, business education, and physical education; request to curtail high school elective offerings by eliminating activities in technology, Foods II, and computer graphics. Request to curtail program to eliminate 11 learning support positions, three speech/language pathologists and one social worker. Request to curtail elementary literacy and math coaches program, foreign language and reading support; request to alter high school physical education/health, art, music, and business programs. Request to curtail the school-to-work and educational assistance programs. Request to eliminate eighth-grade exploratory foreign language program, eliminate elementary technology program, realign social studies curriculum, alter PE program, eliminate speech course. 39

7 Lancaster McGuffey Midwest IU 4 Monroe CTI Request to eliminate dual enrollment, K-7 Spanish program, outreach workers, middle school small learning coordinators, high school small learning community coordinators; eliminate position of dean of students; alter the elementary library program; and eliminate HS electives for graphic communication arts and law enforcement public safety. 1 st request: Request to alter business ed, art, 5 th /6 th grade band and chorus, secondary foreign language, and driver s ed. 2 nd request: Request to alter EAP tutoring program. Request to curtail Frew Mill School (youth development center) programs to eliminate reading and alter industrial arts, phys. ed., special ed., English, math, and social studies, and to alter administrative program. Request to curtail computer programming. Neshaminy Request to curtail or alter following: 10 th- grade PE, 8 th -grade foreign language, school to work transition, five department chair/lead teacher positions, winter track coach, ninth-grade wrestling coach, high school forensics, assistant high school scholars bowl, high school honor society and yearbook assistances, guidance department chair, alternative ed. program, increase gifted class size. Northwestern Lehigh Palmerton Request to curtail business and technology, family consumer science, band, chorus, yearbook, and newspaper programs. Request to eliminate courses in speedwriting, accounting II, multimedia computer applications, desktop/web publishing, career technology, advanced placement English 12, video field production, introduction to media communications, comparative literary approach to film, beginning acoustic guitar, music theory I and II, applied instrumental studies I and II, advanced placement U.S. history, personal finance, computer information processing, career essentials; request to alter gifted program, instrumental music, extended day kindergarten, business technology, English/language arts. 40

8 Panther Valley Perkiomen Valley Philadelphia Request to curtail physical education courses in recreation appreciation and lifeguard training. Request to eliminate elementary Spanish program, 3 rd grade strings program, and driver s ed program. r alter instrumental music, art, music, special ed., ELL, Newcomer gifted, counselors, reading recovery, climate managers, career & class sizes will be increased. Quaker Valley Quakertown Riverside Riverview IU 6 Shade Central Sharpsville Area So. Butler South Western Southeast Delco Southern Columbia Southern Fulton Request to alter Spanish program. Request to alter family and consumer science program. Request to alter elementary program to eliminate elementary response to intervention (RTI) teacher and alter the computer and library programs; request to alter math, language arts, science and social studies at the secondary level. Request to alter programs to return life skills class, psychological services, art, music and phys. ed. to districts in attendance and restructure life skills support and emotion support classes. Request to alter family and consumer science and incorporate instruction into health and other subject areas; request to alter phys. ed. to increase class size; request to alter elementary music to have music taught by individual elementary teachers. Request to alter elementary education and gifted education programs (request indicates this is the second request). Request to alter world language program. Request to curtail high school business department. Request to curtail the math and literacy coach, instructional specialist, and alternative education programs; request to alter math and reading intervention and kindergarten program. Request to curtail the Wilson Reading pull-out program. Request to alter the Business Program. 41

9 Southern Tioga Spring Cove Springfield Twp. Springford St. Mary s Steel Valley Sto Rox Sullivan County Susquenita Towanda Tredyffrin-Eastown Request to alter secondary administrative program by eliminating Jr./Sr. high Dean of Students position and to curtail secondary guidance/social intervention program. Request to alter alternative education, business education, middle school foreign language, elementary education by increasing class size, and an English as second language position from full to half position. Request to alter education program by eliminating three permanent per diem substitute positions. Request to alter K-8 program by reallocating resources and increasing class size; request to alter family and consumer science and art programs; request to curtail supplemental environmental education, math and literacy coaching. Request to alter the elementary library program. Request to alter elementary program to reduce number of grade sections, eliminate math and literacy coaches, and alter guidance and special ed. programs; request to alter secondary program to reduce the number of course offerings in math, social studies, English, science, special ed., guidance counseling, foreign languages, technical ed. and business ed.; request to curtail K-12 programs in art, music and library; eliminate position of dean of students at middle school and high school and the position of coordinator of grants/special programs. Request to curtail alternative and/or special education, elementary library, high school English. Request to abolish two elementary positions, Title I and instructional support, due to consolidation. Request to reduce number of elementary classrooms, alter elementary guidance, high school French and business. Request to eliminate three elementary teachers, high school composition, future technology coach, guidance counselor position. Request to alter program to eliminate applied technology for K-4. Request to curtail German and Latin for grades six through eight. Request to curtail applied technology, family & cons. science and tech. ed. for fifth and sixth grades. 42

10 TriValley Tuscarora Union School District Union Area School District Union City Area School District Upper Darby Upper Perkiomen Wallingford Swarthmore Warwick Washington Wattsburg Waynesboro Request to curtail IST program, eliminate one first grade and one second-grade section, reduce guidance counselor position from full time to part time. Request to alter music, elementary guidance, family consumer science, business education, and technology education programs. Request to eliminate family and consumer science and elementary art; request to alter kindergarten and music. Request to curtail elem and middle sch. Spanish, library, ELL, administration. Request to curtail foreign language, PE, music programs. Request to alter and/or curtail library, elementary math, elementary reading, literacy/math coaches, middle school lead teacher, secondary reading specialists, family and consumer science, Art, tech ed., business ed., and phys. ed. Request to eliminate family and consumer science and French. Request to curtail seventh-grade tech ed. program. Request to curtail business education program. Request to eliminate one elementary support position and one nurse position. Request to curtail elementary program to eliminate one title reading teacher; curtail middle school program to eliminate one librarian; curtail high school program to eliminate one guidance counselor and one part-time job coach. Request to curtail/alter the high school program to eliminate driver ed., reading and math exploratory program, piano and guitar lessons, coop. ed., craft instruction, 11 th and 12 th gr. phys. ed., tech. ed., web application, practical business training instruction; eliminate districtwide reading coordinator and instructional advisor; alter the family and consumer science programs, foreign language programs and graduation project. 43

11 West Mifflin Request to curtail pre-school program to eliminate one class; increase class size and eliminate two kindergarten classes; eliminate instrumental music in grades three through five; eliminate one elementary Title 1 position; eliminate high school business education electives, French and health electives; alter middle school reading and teaming. West Shore Request to alter the educational program to eliminate supplemental science at elementary level, eliminate family and consumer science (with the exception of child development component), eliminate instruction integration advisors (IIAs) at elementary level; eliminate secondary literacy coaches. William Penn Williamsburg Wyomissing York School of Technology York Suburban Yough Request to curtail/alter program to reorganize instructional special program at elementary level; reorganize/alter the middle school structure of instruction; reorganize nursing services; curtail secondary instructional coaches program; alter elementary guidance; curtail alternative ed. twilight program; reduce kindergarten from full day to half day. Request to curtail program to eliminate school nurse position and inclusion facilitator. Request to curtail/alter elementary foreign language. Request to eliminate music. Request to curtail family and consumer science program to eliminate electives in basic sewing and child development. Request to curtail elementary program to eliminate one grade two classroom, two grade three classrooms, and one grade four classroom, reduce kindergarten from full-day to half-day; curtail high school program to eliminate one position in math, English and social studies. 44