Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Class sizes at the high school are on the rise, Moon Area School District administrators say.
Crews will install an additional 117 lockers in the new Moon Area High School to accommodate increasing class sizes. The locker set, purchased through Tri-State Lockers at the state contract price of $18,150, will be installed during the summer season, along a second-floor wall spanning between the gymnasium and the auditorium. High school Principal Barry Balaski said the school’s current inventory of 1,200 lockers would fall 20 short when next year’s freshmen class enters the high school, necessitating the addition. This year, 1,072 students are enrolled in the high school—a figure that increased by 44 from the previous year. Balaski said the district projects those enrollment numbers will continue to climb in coming years. The purchase …
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Teachers and staff will begin to move classroom materials into the building in May.
Staff members will move into the renovated Moon Area Middle School soon after May 1, despite a delay in the building's completion. Dennis Harbaugh, Moon Area School Board member and chairman of the facilities committee, said the school board on Monday toured the new building, which will open to students at the beginning of the 2012-2013 academic year. "It's moving along," he said. "Some of the classrooms are already painted. Other parts of the building are still behind." The building was slated to open May 1, but the board on Jan. 23 approved a series of change orders at no cost to the district that pushed the completion date to June 1. Still teachers and staff members will be able to move classroom materials and furniture into the …
Saturday, January 21, 2012
The board will not seek advice from a private resident on a pro-bono basis, said board president Sandra McCurdy.
Moon Area School Board president Sandra McCurdy said an architectual lawyer from the district's solicitor firm Maiello Brungo & Maiello will assist board members in reviewing interim change orders on school construction projects. The board announced in recent weeks that a Moon resident had volunteered to consult with individual board members on a pro-bono basis regarding construction change orders, drawing criticism from some members of the public, including former board president Mark Scappe. McCurdy said board members and John Wilhelm, of the Moon-based CJL Engineering, reached a mutual agreement to not move forward with that consulting. Instead, she said, board members can now confer with the district's solicitor's firm on interim …
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
The district's soon-to-be-opened middle school brings schedule and curriculum changes for students.
Principal Melissa Heasley said that while curriculum for fifth-graders entering the Moon Area Middle School next year will be more rigorous, students will be up to the task. Heasley spoke last night about upcoming changes to the district’s middle school before an auditorium filled with parents and teachers. Next fall, the district will open the doors of its renovated middle school, which formerly served as its high school. Earlier this year, the district opened an 186,011-square-foot, $76 million new high school, shuttering the former building for the renovation. The current middle school is scheduled to be demolished next fall. The reopened building will come with a number of changes for middle school students. Fifth-graders, who now …
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
Middle School Principal Heasley will meet with parents next week.
Parents will meet with Moon Area School District officials next week to learn more about district-wide changes for middle school students. All parents of children in kindergarten through grade five are invited to attend the meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Moon Area Middle School auditorium. Middle School Principal Melissa Heasley will provide an overview of schedule changes for middle school students during the 2012-2013 school year. The district is to open its newly renovated middle school building at the start of the next academic year. The building, which formerly served as the district's high school, will house grades five through eight. Fifth-graders now attend the district's elementary schools. The middle school, which will be …
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Jenna Staul
1:37 pm on Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Students will remain housed in the current middle school for the remainder of the year and the move isn't expected to impact classroom time. As stated in the article: The renovated building opens to students for the 2012-2013 school year. The concern was that if teachers weren't present to transport some of their own materials, it would incur extra moving costs for the district. more ›