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New Castle News
January 6, 2018
The New Castle Area School District also has joined the class action lawsuit. Superintendent John J. Sarandrea ... He said that Sapienza received notification about the class action suit filed by other schools, "and we felt we should toss our hat into the ring, too," he said. The company has been the target ofÃÂ ...
New Castle News
January 4, 2018
Students at George Washington Intermediate School had two extra days off of school this week because of heating and water issues in their building. They'll also get an extra couple of hours off Thursday, as the New Castle Area School District is looking at its third two-hour delay because of the frigidÃÂ ...
New Castle News
January 4, 2018
John Sarandrea posted on his Facebook page Thursday afternoon that “due to the combination of below zero temperatures and -20 to -30 degree wind chills, the New Castle Area School District will be canceling all classes tomorrow, Friday, January 5, 2018. Have a safe and warm weekend!” NeshannockÃÂ ...
New Castle News
January 3, 2018
The district pays for 18 spots at Cray Challenges' alternative education school and typically fills all of them, Sarandrea said. Cray is not the only way that New Castle deals with problem students, he added. "We have all kinds of options for all different kinds of kids." The district offers a partial hospitalizationÃÂ ...
New Castle News
December 21, 2017
Members of the New Castle Area School District's mixed choruses sang holiday music Tuesday under the baton of their new long-term substitute teacher, Dan Forsberg. With no choir director in place, it seemed the vocalists would have to forgo a Christmas concert this year. However, Forsberg — hired justÃÂ ...
New Castle News
December 15, 2017
The New Castle Area School District is moving forward with plans to expand “The Rack.” The school board, in a special vote after its public work session, approved the purchase of two adjoining Taylor Street properties for $45,000. The properties will be used for the storage of school district maintenanceÃÂ ...
New Castle News
December 15, 2017
Choral students in the New Castle Area School District thought they wouldn't get to sing in a holiday concert this year. ... He has taught as an adjunct professor at Westminster and Thiel colleges, as well as a music and choral teacher at various schools in western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio, includingÃÂ ...
New Castle News
December 13, 2017
The New Castle Area School District has a number of transitional activities for students going from school to school and for those advancing into the world after ... There are many things that people would like to see taught in the schools, Matty said, but, "realistically, you only have 180 days to teach them.”.
Sunbury Daily Item
December 9, 2017
Other districts have chosen to have officers who work directly for the schools. New Castle Area School District, Lawrence County, has agreements in place to have two armed guards at each of its school entrances — four of them New Castle police officers and two private security guards, school officials saidÃÂ ...
New Castle News
December 31, 1999
•Cray Compass, offered in partnership with the New Castle Area School District, provides extra emotional support in the classroom and offers a safe, structured but nurturing environment ... He adds some of the older students remain at Cray to complete their schooling, but graduate from their home schools.
New Castle News
December 15, 2017
The New Castle Area School District is moving forward with plans to expand “The Rack.” The school board, in a special vote after its public work session, approved the purchase of two adjoining Taylor Street properties for $45,000. The properties will be used for the storage of school district maintenanceÃÂ ...
New Castle News
December 15, 2017
Choral students in the New Castle Area School District thought they wouldn't get to sing in a holiday concert this year. ... He has taught as an adjunct professor at Westminster and Thiel colleges, as well as a music and choral teacher at various schools in western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio, includingÃÂ ...
New Castle News
December 13, 2017
The New Castle Area School District has a number of transitional activities for students going from school to school and for those advancing into the world after ... There are many things that people would like to see taught in the schools, Matty said, but, "realistically, you only have 180 days to teach them.”.
New Castle News
December 12, 2017
The greatest worry of any school administration is any kind of an assault on a school, said New Castle Area School District Superintendent John J. Sarandrea. The district conducts drills and has a plan in place, should anyone of a threat such as a gunman get into the school. Sarandrea said the district isÃÂ ...
New Castle News
December 6, 2017
The New Castle Area School District understands the need for this collection, according to Brian Rice, social worker at Lockley Elementary. Rice reported at the school's open house that “Most of all, our children need attention and love, and the tangible need right now is basic clothing such as underwear, ...
New Castle News
December 2, 2017
A tax break agreement for the former First Federal Bank building downtown now has the approval of all three local governing bodies. The Lawrence County commissioners at their meeting in Wampum approved an agreement with a Pittsburgh developer who has offered to pay back taxes on the former ...
New Castle News
November 26, 2017
Fifth-graders in the New Castle Area School District have their learning enhanced this year with the use of Chromebooks. These laptop computers with thousands of apps were placed in the hands of students by the district's assessment data and technology director, Emily Sanders, and instructional ...
New Castle News
November 24, 2017
Tracy Yeropoli, left, and Emily Sanders, right, accept the New Castle Area School District's Pride and Promise awards for their contributions to learning ... George Washington Intermediate School teacher Andrea Keyser nominated SanderS and Yeropoli as this month's Pride and Promise award winners.
New Castle News
November 23, 2017
Two new members will take their seats on the New Castle Area School Board at the board's reorganizational meeting Dec. 4. Robert Lyles and Pat Amabile will be sworn into office at the 6 p.m. meeting, along with re-elected board incumbents Mark Panella and Steve Fornataro. The board bid farewell, ...
New Castle News
November 23, 2017
The smell of turkey baking and stuffing steaming indoors and turkey frying outside were the scents of goodwill at work among a group of New Castle Area School District employees. These cooks — who normally are teachers and other district workers — were putting the finishing touches on Thanksgiving ...
New Castle News
November 20, 2017
Thirty local nonprofit agencies and the New Castle Public Library will be getting an early holiday gift. The local groups are the benefactors of this year's Festival of Trees set for 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Nov. 24 and 25 and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 26 at the Neshannock Township School District buildings on Mitchell ...
New Castle News
October 27, 2017
The New Castle Area School District at its Oct. 16 meeting voted unanimously to approve an agreement with a prospective buyer who would ...
New Castle News
October 26, 2017
Anderson, the school's elementary principal, at a meet-and-greet breakfast ... lives of many students in the New Castle Area School District can impede ... The schools' goal when a student enters kindergarten is for that child to ...
New Castle News
October 18, 2017
Not even the superintendent of schools. ... 74-year-old Wilkins and New Castle Area School District Superintendent John J. Sarandrea outside ...
New Castle News
October 12, 2017
New Castle Area School District officials say a stormwater fee proposed ... that total includes assessments for the district's four schools, but the ...
New Castle News
September 29, 2017
A former New Castle Area School District principal has filed a federal lawsuit against the district and its superintendent, claiming libel and a ...
New Castle News
September 21, 2017
The New Castle Area School Board has hired a multitude of ... Shirley Schaefer was hired at $18.50 per hour for St. Vitus and Lockley schools.
New Castle News
July 12, 2017
New Castle Area School District employees who live outside the district are now welcome to send their children to school in there free of charge ...
New Castle News
July 12, 2017
Thirteen administrative staff members of the New Castle Area School District each will receive an additional $400 in their base salaries for this ...
New Castle News
May 29, 2017
Schools in New Castle and throughout Lawrence County have ... later and the school became part of the New Castle Area School District.
New Castle News
March 21, 2017
Several New Castle Area School District secretaries will receive raises for the next five years as the result of a 6 to 3 vote by the school board ...
Sunbury Daily Item
December 31, 1999
“Obviously the tragedy that happened at Sandy Hook changed the way we think about our schools,” Sunbury Police Chief Tim Miller said. .... The greatest worry of any school administration is any kind of an assault on a school, New Castle Area School District Superintendent John J. Sarandrea said.
Sunbury Daily Item
December 31, 1999
Other districts have chosen to have officers who work directly for the schools. New Castle Area School District, Lawrence County, has agreements in place to have two armed guards at each of its school entrances — four of them New Castle police officers and two private security guards, school officials saidÃÂ ...
New Castle News
September 1, 2017
Lyles is running for a spot on the New Castle School Board. ... Lyles, who is a candidate for the New Castle Area School District Board of Directors. ... born and raised in New Castle and that his children attend the city schools.
WCN (WestminsterCollege Network)
August 31, 2017
The graduate of '99 ranks fourth in school history with 3,283 rushing yards ... and social studies teacher in the New Castle Area School District.
Sharonherald
August 16, 2017
Sharpsville Middle School secretary Barbara Goncz makes ... what the class would be like, Ferko and Staunch visited New Castle Area School District, ... in another program at Sharpsville schools this year, the MakerspaceÃÂ ...
New Castle News
July 28, 2017
Approval of all three taxing bodies — the city, the county and the New Castle Area School District — is required for the sale. Council membersÃÂ ...
New Castle News
July 12, 2017
Thirteen administrative staff members of the New Castle Area School District each will receive an additional $400 in their base salaries for thisÃÂ ...
New Castle News
July 12, 2017
New Castle Area School District employees who live outside the district are now welcome to send their children to school in there free of chargeÃÂ ...
New Castle News
May 31, 2017
The board at its regular meeting on May 23 accepted the retirement of Dr. Carmen Nocera, the principal at Harry W. Lockley Elementary SchoolÃÂ ...
New Castle News
May 29, 2017
Schools in New Castle and throughout Lawrence County have ... later and the school became part of the New Castle Area School District.
New Castle News
May 17, 2017
He has a niece and nephew in the New Castle Area School District, he said, and he wants to make sure they have a good school district toÃÂ ...
New Castle News
March 21, 2017
Several New Castle Area School District secretaries will receive raises for the next five years as the result of a 6 to 3 vote by the school boardÃÂ ...
Tribune-Review
March 14, 2017
School and businesses in the Pittsburgh area announced closings and delays due to the weather on Tuesday, March 14, 2017.
New Castle News
March 14, 2017
All of the candidates, except for a few in the New Castle Area School District, have cross-filed as candidates on both the Republican andÃÂ ...
New Castle News
January 24, 2017
He makes sure that all students at the three New Castle Area School District schools are fed for free. He puts in 12 to 14 hours a day balancingÃÂ ...
WPXI Pittsburgh
December 31, 1999
What are they doing about security at schools? ... What impact will transportation changes in the New Castle Area School District have onÃÂ ...
New Castle News
March 15, 2017
The assistant principal's salary at Shenango High School was set by the district's school board for the next three school years. Directors OK'd the earnings of Derek Sumner at $79,300 for 2017-18; $82,722 for 2018-19 and $86,344 for 2019-2020. The voteÃÂ ...
New Castle News
March 14, 2017
All of the candidates, except for a few in the New Castle Area School District, have cross-filed as candidates on both the Republican and Democratic ballots.
New Castle News
March 10, 2017
At Clarion, the education college was realigned to create two separate schools. Clarion is a perfect example of what could happen, said John Sarandrea, superintendent of the New Castle Area School District. If programs are cut there, they could happenÃÂ ...
