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SaveNASchools was recently featured in the latest issue of IN North Allegheny. Click on the links below to read the article.
IN North Allegheny is a free, quarterly magazine direct mailed to homes in Bradford Woods, Franklin Park, McCandless, and Marshall Township. For more information on the publication, please click here.
Several parents of children from Franklin Elementary School complained to school directors about a redistricting plan that would move their children out of the overcrowded school on Rochester Road in Franklin Park.
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A slate of candidates opposed to closing an elementary school and higher elementary class sizes will hold four seats on the school board.
Because three candidates endorsed by the Save NA Schools group won nomination in May on both the Democratic and Republican tickets, the race was basically between incumbents Thomas Schwartzmier on the Republican ballot and Daniel Hubert on the Democratic ballot for the fourth four-year term.
Mr. Schwartzmier received 62 percent of more than 5,300 votes to defeat Mr. Hubert. Tara Zimmerman Fisher, who received the most votes (4,917), Scott Russell and incumbent Ralph Pagone were the other winners.
“It’s incredible to see what has been achieved by a group of thoughtful, committed residents in this district,” said Mrs. Fisher, a 1994 graduate of North Allegheny.
Mr. Russell said he was “excited to serve as a school director for North Allegheny. “I look forward to working with the current and new board members.”
“The results of yesterday’s election were a huge win for the current students, future students, and taxpayers of the North Allegheny School District,” Mr. Pagone said.
“Thank you to our friends and citizens for being informed and educated voters, and congratulations on having your voices heard.”
A candidate endorsed by Save NA Schools also took the two-year term created when Beth Ludwig resigned.
Kevin Mahler, who was running as an Independent, defeated the endorsed Republican candidate, Gary Wenig. The Democrats did not nominate a candidate for the special election.
“I greatly appreciate the efforts of everyone who helped with my campaign,” Mr. Mahler said. “As a school director, I will work hard to represent the best interests of the whole NA community.”
With the election, seven of the nine school board seats will be held by McCandless residents. Mr. Schwartzmier lives in Franklin Park, while board President Maureen Grosheider lives in Marshall. Linda Bishop, who also lives in Marshall, did not seek re-election.
— Sandy Trozzo
Moving students out of Franklin Elementary School in Franklin Park to relieve crowding will be a challenge, North Allegheny School District administrators have told board members.
Most of the Franklin students live very close to the school, Roger Botti, supervisor of transportation and operations, told the board at its Oct. 23 meeting.
That means that many of them would have to travel farther to school than they do now, he said.
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Redistricting and Projections October 25, 2013
Erroneous Enrollment Projections May 15, 2013
Students in all seven elementary and three middle schools in the North Allegheny School District will be affected by a proposed redistricting plan.
Roger Botti, supervisor of transportation and operations, told school board members Wednesday that two plans are being considered, and each would move approximately 400 students.
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Redistricting Scenarios: Balancing Enrollment Versus Closing Peebles (Posted: March 15, 2013)
Richard Cook, North Allegheny Patch
“Kevin Mahler is running in a special election for a two-year seat on the board.”
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The North Allegheny School District will seek input from parent focus groups before redistricting elementary and middle school students.
The redistricting, the third in 20 years, will take effect for the 2014-15 school year.
Administrators provided a timeline and parameters to school board members at their Sept. 25 board meeting.
Residents of the North Allegheny School District will be able to see what the district has planned for the next five years.
The district’s proposed new comprehensive plan will be available for public inspection online. The school board heard an update of its new plan from administrators Sept. 18 and is scheduled to vote on the plan Nov. 20.
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The North Allegheny School District will redistrict elementary and middle students next spring for the 2014-15 school year.
The redistricting, the third in 20 years, will relieve overcrowding in Franklin Elementary and Ingomar Middle School, and will balance class sizes in the three elementary schools in McCandless.
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The community group “Save NA Schools” says the most recent enrollment numbers, obtained under the “right to know” law, confirm what it campaigned more than a year for; closing an elementary school in the North Allegheny School District would lead to larger class sizes.
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Leaders of the Save NA Schools citizens group said the decision by North Allegheny school board officers not to schedule a vote on closing Peebles Elementary School in McCandless was the right one.
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