Hey, Pat remember this?? Wednesday, June 08, 2016 :
The criteria were based on whether each school’s students were performing better than statistically expected for students in that state (using the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, or MCAS test results in Massachusetts).
Pioneer Valley Regional High School was ranked as 69th in Massachusetts, while the Mohawk Trail Regional High School was 74th in the state. Both schools ranked within the top 21 percent of all Massachusetts public schools that were evaluated for this report.
According to US News, about 32 percent of Pioneer Valley Regional School students take Advanced Placement courses, and the graduation rate is 91 percent. Based on MCAS scores, 97 percent of students ranked proficient in English and 93 percent are proficient in math.
Hey, Pat, do you remember how kids, teachers, parents and TAX Payers fought to keep Duprey and others teachers and YOU turned your back on them and allowed them to be fired instead of paying Miller out of her contract to save our school? Let us give you a reminder
School Committee Meeting May 26, 2016
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Or how about the warning from Templeton themselves
smartJune 2, 2016 at 8:18 PM
Does she work for them or does the school committee work for her?If pioneer school district people will take any advise it's this. Please form and support a group to keep an eye on her and the school committee or your kids will pay the price if you don't. You're kids and their education should be on the top of this list.
lets hope the School Committee where you are going is a strong one, so the community still has money to run the town when you are through.
https://pvrsconcernsandissues.blogspot.com/2016/06/ruth-miller-old-school-in-templeton.html
The perfect storm LMAO.. Miller you started off as a liar and you know and I know every school you have been employed at ended in the same manner. UNLIKE the SC we did investigate you. We warned them to :
1- NOT ALLOW YOU AS BUDGET MANAGER- your good at hiding things.
2-WATCH THE BUDGET CLOSELY
3-WATCH ADMIN SALARY
4-WATCH YOU CLOSELY DUE TO YOU WOULD ELIMINATE ANYONE WHO STOOD AGAINST YOU. YOU DID JUST THAT!
5-THE DAMN LIST WAS ENDLESS ( GO THRU THE BLOG )
Per your usual hide and seek move you will not show up to face what you have done. Doctor excuses have been made before. Your BS is getting old. Every school you have attended you left in rubble and you destroyed our school, you and that worthless SC.
We warned you about Duprey if he left you would lose school choice, funny how that worked out for you. Vernon has the students, but the parents don't trust the school PVRS has become. His presence was more important than you imagined, but I am sure you are seeing now.
You need to look deeper into the lunch program ( this seemed to also be a huge problem in her past schools) You need to take a deep look at the Admin salaries especially hers. Look in areas you wouldn't normally look at for problems, phones, stamps, supplies etc.
Removal starts in ADMIN.
Bacon needs a reduction in pay
Perry - removed
Healy- Removed
Healy's sectary - Removed
This ridiculous class on the internet removed - This is trash
SUGGESTION- KEEP SPORTS AND MUSIC AND THE ARTS OR YOU WILL CLOSE YOUR DOORS. THIS KEEPS PVRS FUNCTIONAL.
ANOTHER SUGGESTION- DUE TO THE LACK OF SUPERVISION BY THE SC THEY SHOULD BE MADE TO PROVIDE THEIR SERVICES FOR FREE. THIS MESS IS ON THEM AND HOW DARE THEY EXPECT TO BE PAID FOR DESTROYING SCHOOLS FOR POOR AND LACK OF LEADERSHIP!!!! THEIR SALARIES SHOULD BE PUT INTO THE SPORTS, ARTS, AND MUSIC. PERIOD!!!
Russell Dupere repeatedly made the point that the district is now dealing with a years-old structural problem: the amount of money being spent on each school is incommensurate with the number of students. Really? How much waste of money that could have been put towards the students and buildings lost to Millers special building at 36,000.00 plus a year? Excuse me but where was the concern when this abuse was going on???
You just want to cry reading this knowing if only they listened this would not be happening now. Shearer and Young remove them now. Miller should not be allowed to not face people demand she shows up.
A once happy high spirited school has been destroyed.T he destruction has been completed and I am not so sure this one can be undone. All those who loved this school so deeply and the kids are gone and now you risk the rest. Loss of sports and music is devasting.
Parents take a damn stand, taxpayers stand up, students and teachers. It is up to you now.
Once again fitting '
YOU STOOD SILENT BEFORE ARE YOU GONNA NOW?
NORTHFIELD — “Pioneer Valley Regional School District finds itself in the perfect storm,” wrote Pioneer Valley Regional School District Superintendent Ruth Miller in a letter May 22.
The storm hit at the School Committee’s May 17 emergency meeting when School Committee Chairwoman Pat Shearer shared the results of a recent audit, according to which Pioneer Valley Regional School District is projected to be at a deficit of roughly $1 million by the end of July. On Wednesday, the School Committee must vote on what cuts it will make from the coming year’s budget to begin correcting that deficit. The committee had planned to make its decisions in a vote at its most recent meeting on May 24, but postponed. This time, the deadline is probably real: Teachers’ contracts need to be renewed, or not, by Friday, June 1.
At the May 17 meeting, the School Committee instructed administrators to come up with a list of cuts from next school year’s budget for the committee to review.
The administrators’ proposed cuts — “none of which,” Healy said at the May 24 meeting, “we recommend as educationally sound or in the best interest of teaching and learning” — include reducing or even completely cutting PVRS sports, consolidating or cutting special curricular programs like art and music, cutting preschool, moving 6th grade to PVRS and closing Warwick Community School or Leyden’s Pearl Rhodes Elementary or both.
“Our school is enviable by anyone’s standards,” wrote Warwick resident Jennifer Core in an email to fellow residents, pleading that it would be shortsighted to close the school, and accusing Warwick Town Coordinator David Young, who is on the School Committee, of “attempting to push through a vote on closing the Warwick Community School.”
But Warwick Community School may just be too expensive to run, Young said. According to school district treasurer Tanya Gaylord’s estimates, Warwick and Leyden’s elementary schools respectively cost about $22,750 and $24,600 per student. Young said in his own calculations, Warwick Community School’s cost per-pupil is closer to $32,000. Statewide, the average per-pupil cost is about $15,500, according to the Department of Education’s expenditure report of September 2017. In Gaylord’s calculations, Bernardston and Northfield’s elementary schools cost about $16,500 per student, and Pioneer Valley Regional School is about $17,500.
“Over the past decade, there have been changes in the Massachusetts education system that have put Massachusetts at the top in the country and competitive in the world,” Miller wrote. “All of this comes with a cost. … We are the ones that have to fulfill all of the required mandates at a time when there are fewer students and less resources.”
Miller cited declining enrollment and the state’s failure to properly reimburse the district’s transportation costs as the main causes of the deficit. Similarly, at the May 17 meeting, the School Committee’s attorney Russell Dupere repeatedly made the point that the district is now dealing with a years-old structural problem: the amount of money being spent on each school is incommensurate with the number of students.
“Pioneer Valley Regional School District finds itself in a position where they have to decide if they need to close a school or two,” Miller wrote, “and have their kindergarten and elementary school students ride a bus to school and home that will take a minimum of 90 minutes. This may be financially prudent in the short term, but what comes next? Closure of the remaining two elementary schools? There is a need in Western Mass that is unique and demands a unique solution.”
The proposed cutsThe following is the list of cuts proposed by the district’s administrators at the request of the School Committee. The School Committee will make its decisions at its meeting on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at Pioneer Valley Regional School.
Staff reductions:
eliminate 1 teacher at NES
eliminate 1 teacher at BES
eliminate 1 teacher and reduce some offerings in material tech engineering/architecture at PVRS
consolidate foods/nutrition and health positions at PVRS
reduce admin assistant
reduce custodian
Restructuring options:
cut preschool
move sixth grade to PVRS
Extracurriculars:
reduce number of sports or number of teams epr sport in athletic programs at PVRS
eliminate sports at PVRS
reduce budget support for after school clubs by half
eliminate all budget support for after school clubs
eliminate late busses
eliminate elementary field trip support for non-academic and out-of-district trips
Specials (art, music, PE, technology):
consolidate art and music and PE positions at the elementary schools
consolidate are and music and PE positions at the elementary schools and reduce to four days per week
consolidate instrumental music instruction 5-12
consolidate vocal and instrumental music at elementary level
eliminate elementary technology education
cut all specials at elementary level
School closures:
close Pearl Rhodes Elementary
close Warwick Community School
