All Bradford Schools Show Improvement
in Math, Reading Test Scores
By ANNE HOLLIDAY
WESB/WBRR News Director
The Bradford Area School District received the results of reading and math assessment scores for the 2009-2010 school year, and learned that every school showed improvement.
Assistant Superintendent Katy Pude made the announcement during last night’s school board meeting.
“All buildings in the Bradford school district made adequate yearly progress,” she said, adding that Bradford Area High School made substantial improvements in math.
“Both School Street and Fretz did a phenomenal job as well,” she said.
“We are so proud of our students, our teaching staff and our administrative staff,” Pudy added.
A presentation on the results, and where the district goes from here, will be given at next month’s school board meeting.
Pudy also talked about the summer school programs, saying that they were fabulous and very successful.
She said one of the highlights of the program was the autism camp. The progress the students made in a short period of time was impressive, she said, adding that the students asked if they could make a presentation to the school board about the camp.
She said that’s phenomenal.
Also board, the board voted to decline a request from Kimberly Edwards Coleman of Yonkers, NY, to buy 10 properties currently in the McKean County repository.
District Business Manager Kathy Boyd recommended that the board decline the request because Coleman is “surfing the ‘net and I don’t believe she is going to rehabilitate these to code as she stated.”
“I work with the county and the city on these and we’ve been in multiple conversations,” she said, adding that Coleman has sent in requests to buy even more properties. “We don’t feel we need any more absentee landlords in the county.”
Board member Dave Feely asked if Coleman has shown interest in properties in other parts of the county.
Boyd said she wasn’t sure, but did say county officials are very happy that she was recommending that the school district not sell the properties to Coleman.
In another real estate matter, the board agreed to buy the property at 24 Willard Avenue for $21,480.
Also Monday, the board renewed agreements with the Children’s Center for Treatment and Education.
The agreement is for alternative education services for residential, non-residential, foster and state ward education. A daily rate established by the Department of Education is paid for regular education. The special education rate is $99.15 per day.
The second agreement is for the purchase of services at the emergency shelter for alternative education. The cost of services is $58.92 per day.
The third agreement is for alternative education for 15 high school students. The cost of the program is $212,898. The fourth agreement is for education services for 10 middle school students. The cost of the program is $75,000.
Also Monday, the board accepted the resignation of Gerald Conklin, custodian at George G. Blaisdell Elementary School, who had been with the district for 25 years.
“He’ll be greatly missed,” said Sam Johnson, human resources director.
Superintendent Sandra Romanowski also noted that Bradford High teacher Kimberly Preston received a Ripple Effect award from the Governor’s Institute on Financial Education last month. Read more about that: http://1490newsblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/bradford-teacher-receives-award.html
WESB/WBRR News Director
The Bradford Area School District received the results of reading and math assessment scores for the 2009-2010 school year, and learned that every school showed improvement.
Assistant Superintendent Katy Pude made the announcement during last night’s school board meeting.
“All buildings in the Bradford school district made adequate yearly progress,” she said, adding that Bradford Area High School made substantial improvements in math.
“Both School Street and Fretz did a phenomenal job as well,” she said.
“We are so proud of our students, our teaching staff and our administrative staff,” Pudy added.
A presentation on the results, and where the district goes from here, will be given at next month’s school board meeting.
Pudy also talked about the summer school programs, saying that they were fabulous and very successful.
She said one of the highlights of the program was the autism camp. The progress the students made in a short period of time was impressive, she said, adding that the students asked if they could make a presentation to the school board about the camp.
She said that’s phenomenal.
Also board, the board voted to decline a request from Kimberly Edwards Coleman of Yonkers, NY, to buy 10 properties currently in the McKean County repository.
District Business Manager Kathy Boyd recommended that the board decline the request because Coleman is “surfing the ‘net and I don’t believe she is going to rehabilitate these to code as she stated.”
“I work with the county and the city on these and we’ve been in multiple conversations,” she said, adding that Coleman has sent in requests to buy even more properties. “We don’t feel we need any more absentee landlords in the county.”
Board member Dave Feely asked if Coleman has shown interest in properties in other parts of the county.
Boyd said she wasn’t sure, but did say county officials are very happy that she was recommending that the school district not sell the properties to Coleman.
In another real estate matter, the board agreed to buy the property at 24 Willard Avenue for $21,480.
Also Monday, the board renewed agreements with the Children’s Center for Treatment and Education.
The agreement is for alternative education services for residential, non-residential, foster and state ward education. A daily rate established by the Department of Education is paid for regular education. The special education rate is $99.15 per day.
The second agreement is for the purchase of services at the emergency shelter for alternative education. The cost of services is $58.92 per day.
The third agreement is for alternative education for 15 high school students. The cost of the program is $212,898. The fourth agreement is for education services for 10 middle school students. The cost of the program is $75,000.
Also Monday, the board accepted the resignation of Gerald Conklin, custodian at George G. Blaisdell Elementary School, who had been with the district for 25 years.
“He’ll be greatly missed,” said Sam Johnson, human resources director.
Superintendent Sandra Romanowski also noted that Bradford High teacher Kimberly Preston received a Ripple Effect award from the Governor’s Institute on Financial Education last month. Read more about that: http://1490newsblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/bradford-teacher-receives-award.html
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