Thursday, April 4, 2013
Nancy Deibert, Dr. Jennifer Cohen Kogan, Tejas Nerurka, Katie Walder, Jennie Yoo will be honored at a dinner at Philmont Country Club.
Five more members will join the illustrious Lower Moreland Hall of Fame. The newest inductees were announced a couple months ago, and the Class of 2013 will be honored at the Induction Dinner at the Philmont Country Club on Friday. A Social Time will be conducted from 6 to 6:30 p.m. and the ceremony and dinner will follow. The inductees are: In 1995, the School District decided to honor those graduates by starting its own Hall of Fame. These honorees are remembered forever on the Hall of Fame Wall in the high school auditorium lobby. They are presented with a plaque and picture that is hung with all of the other recipients. Those honored in previous years include Superintendent Dr. David Archibald, professional singer and soloist Ms. …
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Local residents can expect to see around a 4-percent increase to their taxes as the Lower Moreland School Board configures its budget.
Joshua Kozak will fulfill the duties of a Spanish teacher for the remainder of the school year.
The Lower Moreland School Board formally introduced its newest teacher at its monthly public meeting. Joshua Kozak was recommended by the board as the long-term substitute for Spanish, Class II, Step I. He officially took over this month and will remain through the 2012-13 school year. Kozak comes from the Phoenix Academy at the Lancaster School District. He's also held language and cultural assistant positions in Spanish. Josh is going to be serving as a our long-time substitute for Spanish. We're pleased to recommend the position to you at the high school. "Supervisors describe you as holding high standards for your students, and having done a wonderful job of providing a creative and rigorous environment for academic excellence," Lower …
Monday, March 25, 2013
Local residents can expect to see around a 4-percent increase to their taxes as the Lower Moreland School Board configures its budget.
Lower Moreland Superintendent Dr. Marykay Feeley recently announced that the Pennsylvania Department of Education approved exceptions for the Lower Moreland School District, which will allow LM to be above the 1.7 percent Act I index. With this new information, Lower Moreland currently stands to increase taxes by 4.05 percent while it adds costs to its budget for the 2013-14 school year. Lower Moreland was approved for exceptions for retirement contributions, but Feeley said the school board does not anticipate being approved for special education exceptions. “We are actually able to tax beyond our index,” Feeley said. “So the proposal is around 4 percent. Come the end of June is when we’ll have that final vote … Certainly between now and …
Friday, March 22, 2013
Lower Moreland senior Sara Murphy received the Student of the Month award for February.
Lower Moreland senior Sara Murphy was presented a certificate from Superintendent Dr. Marykay Feeley for being February's Student of the Month. "Sara happens to be the captain of our cheerleading squad at the high school and is also an active member in the Buddy Program," Dr. Feeley said. "She's the type of person that faces everyday with a smile, and is happy to help in any way that she can. "Most recently, Sara assisted in choreography in several of the dances in our Lip Sinc, and participated in half of the night's performances. Additionally, she has taken on the majority of the planning and preparation for both this year and last year's Ultimate Challenge. Her dedication to supporting worthy causes is evident by her willingness to stay…
Lower Moreland senior David Lakata received the Student of the Month award for February.
Lower Moreland High School Senior David Lakata was presented a Student of the Month certificate from Superintendent Dr. Marykay Feeley for February. Last month, Lakata was honored as a National Merit Finalist. "We know you have the intelligence," Dr. Feeley said. "You are very involved, you have great organizational skills, and your humility is something that people talk about when they describe you. If you meet david for the first, there's no doubt he makes an immediate and lasting impression. "His character is of the highest caliber., Dr. Feeley added. "His work ethic and dedication are second to none. With an academic in co-cirricluar age, David clearly stands among the best of the best of all of our high school students. It would be …
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Lower Moreland School Board officials are also looking into a system where children would be required to have a card scanned when they enter and exit the bus.
Lower Moreland School District has installed 41 new camera on school buses to help protect its students. Those cameras will monitor activity inside each school bus, but school board officials are still looking into ways to add more cameras to increase security and safety. Exterior cameras with a wider view of what’s happening outside of the bus are being explored as a possible purchase. Feeley said they will cost $225 to buy and install each camera. “In essence, it would give the view that the driver has,” Superintendent Marykay Feeley said. Lower Moreland is also discussing using a school bus tracking system called “ZPass.” Using this system, each student would be required to carry a card that would need to be scanned once a student walks…
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
The previous Lower Moreland teacher contract expired on Aug. 30, 2012.
Friday, February 22, 2013
David Lakata and Christopher Keane were presented with certificates at the Lower Moreland School Board meeting.
Being a National Merit Finalist is an one of the most distinguished honors a high school student can obtain. The highest-achieving students represent less than 1 percent of the initial pool of entrants. This month about 15,000 semifinalists were notified that they advanced to the finalist stage. And of those 15,000 students, the National Merit Scholarship award is handed out to about 8,300 students across the country. Lower Moreland High School is lucky enough to have two of those. David Lakata and Christopher Keane were recognized at the Lower Moreland School Board meeting this week for their academic achievement. “In February some 15,000 semifinalists are notified my mail at their home addresses that they advanced to the finalists …
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Nancy Deibert, Dr. Jennifer Cohen Kogan, Tejas Nerurka, Katie Walder, Jennie Yoo will be honored at a dinner on April 5 at Philmont Country Club.
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I wouldn't say they are incompetent. But the salaries are so high that higher taxes, to them, are easily absorbable . There will be no end to this. There is little correlation of spending versus student performance. Some of the major Bucks County school districts' residents don't pay what we do. New Hope /Solebury for example averages 1000.00 less than here .The Intelligencer out of Doylestown … more ›