Posted: Thursday, November 15, 2012 3:13 pm | Updated: 6:56 pm, Thu Nov 15, 2012.
Morrisville school board President John DeWilde announced during Wednesday’s agenda meeting that he will not be seeking re-nomination.DeWilde cited personal reasons as a decisive factor in his decision to step aside. He will stay on as a member of the board, though.
The annual reorganization meeting -- during which board members vote on president, vice president and secretary -- is scheduled for 7:30 Dec. 3 at the Morrisville High School LGI room.
DeWilde has served as the president since December.
All school boards in the state are required to reorganize on the first Monday of December each year.
DeWilde has served as the president since December.
All school boards in the state are required to reorganize on the first Monday of December each year.
25 comments:
Lets stay on course, good Bye 1 by 1 until they are ALL gone.
Please step aside... Watch the tram car please.
Watch the tram car please.
are we in deWildewood?
DeWilde, DeAngelo, DE-Ferrara, De-Bucuy, De-BuckWoroStout, De-Harm....De anybody who's anybody that sucks at making educationally sound DEcisions for our community and District. You can't be anti school and pro community. You can't be pro school and anti community. You have to be human and normal and have feelings and an education and a goal and a plan and a care and a respect for others.
We shall see what happens I guess...At least we don't have disgruntled teachers I suppose. My 3rd and 7th grade children love their teachers.
So there's that.
Steps aside my arse...he was finally smart enough to make his own decision without help from his friends maybe??? 1st one on the dingy is assured a seat before the ship sinks?
I respect his votes that were against the soc grain and showed independence. Pissing off Mihok Stout & Worob was gravy.
His votes are Ferrara's votes. And Ferrara's votes are Hellman's votes. And Hellman's votes are Fitzpatrick's votes...etc...
Sadly, politics are now ruining education.
Glad he is stepping aside as Pres. He can still be a contributor.
Come on. I don't support any of the SOCwits but Dewilde is the best of the group. Stop focusing on the personalities and focus back on what these morans should have done in the first place. Balance the needs of the seniors against the needs of the kids and the needs of ALL the taxpayers and find a solution for this district.
That's right.
Wanda Kartal for president!!!
We are in a 5yr x 1.7 % = revenue hole that has put us in the merger/farm/options conversation b/c of people that vetoed a new school building.
building feelings aside...that's 5 million dollars plus, plus the 0 that should be a plus on taxes, plus the buyout of multiple individuals to shoosh.
Morrisville Borough School District is in more than enough healthy financial shape to EXPAND, not fear monger itself into dissovling. DeAngelo and Ferrara are crushing the books in their favor. Wake up.
I agree. If only I was a resident, I'd buy a calculator at Target and go to a meeting. Unfortunately, I'm looking out for my parents property.
Lets pay for more college courses for DeAngelo so he can get his boys out of this situation. Ferrara we could use the money we spent to educate DeAngelo on the kids from Morrisville not your buddy Pauly-D. Keep Harm for the rest of the year and make him a crossing guard, they are retired and so is he.
I didn’t scour the records, but these 2 were easy finds:
April 25, 2012 – Mr. DeAngelo had $6,351.00 in tuition reimbursement (3 x 3 credit classes @ $2,117 per). The classes were “Professional Seminar”, “Principals Quant. Research” and “Social Change Culture & ED”.
November 14, 2012 – Mr. DeAngelo had $5,292.00 more in tuition reimbursement (2 x 3 credit classes @ $2,646 per). The classes were “Quant. Research Design” and “Ethics in Ed. Leadership”.
That’s 15 credits and $11,643.00 in less than 7 months.
I should note that the Board voted to pay the 4/25 reimbursement, but tabled the vote to pay the 11/14 reimbursement, asking for additional info and details.
Am I hearing this right?
Starting about 54:40 on the video of the 11/14 meeting, Mr. Ferrara says that the classes (and presumably the certifications they lead to) will put Mr. DeAngelo in a position to assume other positions within the District if need be, with the exception of Principal roles.
Mr. De Angelo was hired as, and remains, the Business Manager. What other roles within the District are we talking about here? Oh, and why?
At about 29:40 of the 11/14 meeting, Mr. Gesauldi begins explaining a few recent events that shed light on why the Special Ed. budget is so variable.
Something about incidents involving several Special Ed. students that involved placing them in other schools at a cost of about $70,000, and another new student requiring a Personal Care Assistant (PCA) at a cost of about $15,000, for a total of about $85,000 in unbudgeted expenses.
Here are a couple thoughts I had:
1. Thank you Mr. Gesualdi for the information. I really do appreciate it.
2. The Special Ed. budget for 2012-13 is $3,976,934. $85,000 is about 2% of the Special Ed. budget.
3. Mr. DeAngelo's tuition reimbursement requests over the last < 7 months of $11,643 is about 78% of the cost of a PCA for the Special Ed. student.
4. Later, Mr. DeAngelo said that there was a line item in the budget for his tuition reimbursement, but he was not able to say what the amount was.
It's all relative.
I'll now get down off the soap box for a while.
As if he (Deangelo) doesn't know exactly how much he put in the budget for his tuition.
I call BS.
This is disgusting. The administration does whatever it wants and our students education is suffering because of this.
I'm all for continuing education but not at the districts expense unless required for current job. It seems to me that you should also need some on the job experience and classroom time, not just credits for certain positions, like principal, for example.
I'm pretty sure Laurie Ruffing benefitted nicely from the tuition reimbursement program. A lot of good that did us.
For example, you have Music teacher Michael Scott teaching a single 8th grade Social Studies class, while newly acknowledged administrative intern Jim Gober is STILL listed as Social Studies teacher on the MSD Staff Directory even though he's been part of the admin for the last 2 yrs.
Sort of makes it look like there isn't a shortage of SS teachers. Or is this intentional?
Imagine this and the SOC reaction to it...
Business Manager Reba Dunford puts in for 12K of tuition in a little over 6 months. Super. Dr. Yonson says it's to position her for other spots in the district.
OR this ...
Business Manager Paul Orlando or Tony Orlando & Dawn puts in for 12K of tuition in a little over 6 months. Super. Dr. John Gould says it's to position him or them for other spots in the district.
This is why SOC is a bunch of hypocritical SOCwits!
You could write a book about it ...................
We had stay on Course. And now we have Pauly D's Pay for Course.
So NO to Pauly D's tuition binge. Times are too tough and we're struggling too much for this! He'll leave if he wants to no matter what classes us taxpayers pay for.
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