Push continues to keep North Allegheny’s Peebles school open
Residents of North Allegheny School District’s largest municipality continued to plead with the school board April 17 to keep all elementary schools open and to reduce class sizes.
The board is scheduled to vote in May on a proposal to close Peebles Elementary School in McCandless because of excess capacity in the elementary buildings. If the closing is approved, district administrators have said they are willing to delay the move until 2014-15.
But McCandless parents say excess capacity exists only because class sizes have increased this year after some retiring teachers were not replaced.
North Allegheny board upgrades school technology, security
The North Allegheny School Board Wednesday approved wiring upgrades and security measures for its buildings.
Eight board members voted to finance $4 million in technology improvements through a low-interest loan from PNC Bank. Projects include replacing the network infrastructure equipment and upgraded data wiring for all seven elementary schools and installing wireless coverage in each district building.
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Can you not load > 5000 books onto an IPad? They are NOT currently “unusable” because we don’t have wireless throughout the district. Children in Africa, China and many other areas of the world sit on a stone and write on a tiny chalkboard (if they are lucky enough to have one)…and they are still LEARNING! “IT” does not = “IQ”