Thursday, May 17, 2012
A New York Times story on graduates weighed down with college debt makes the case for last week’s column.
Once again, The New York Times is playing catch-up with Patch.com. On Sunday, The Times had a front-page story about the growing burdens of college loans, three days after my column ran on the same subject. The paper did a wee bit more legwork for their gazillion-word story – my research consisted mainly of talking to a friend at the deli counter at the Giant supermarket – so I’ll leave the term “copycat” out of this discussion. The lead of The Times story was about a young Ohio college graduate who owes $120,000 in loans and is working two jobs to pay the $900-a-month bill. Her mother is taking out life insurance on her because if anything happens to her daughter, she couldn’t pay the loans for which she co-signed. A decade ago, 58 …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The Holy Family School Players will perform the musical 'Oliver' four times over the course of three days, starting Friday, May 18.
They’ve practiced for four months, and now they're ready for the curtain to go up. The Holy Family School Players will perform “Oliver” this weekend for four shows: The performances will take place in the Holy Family School gymnasium. Admission is $7. The show is the school’s ninth production, according to director Catherine Little. "Oliver" features a cast of 92. The story of "Oliver" is set in Victorian England. A baby boy is left on the steps of a work house, and a locket around his neck says "Oliver Twist," according to the story synopsis. As soon as Oliver is old enough to walk, he is put to work by a fellow named Bumble. Oliver, however, infuriates Bumble by daring to ask for more food, so Bumble sells him to an undertaker. Oliver …
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
It's the Nazareth Area School District's place to make a wage-concession proposal, says the president of the Nazareth Area Education Association, which represents the district's teachers.
The Nazareth Area Education Association has responded to a letter sent by Superintendent Victor Lesky regarding potential wage concessions, but the teachers union does not plan to submit a wage proposal to the district, according to the union's president. Such a proposal should come from the district -- and if that happens, NAEA will respond, said union president Aris Asdourian. He noted it is not the union's place to initiate a wage-concession proposal. Asdourian spoke to Patch briefly after Monday's meeting of the Nazareth School Board, which he attended. He declined a seemingly impromptu offer from board President Lorin Bradley to address the board and the public during a discussion of the 2012-2013 budget. The budget proposal -- which …
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Monday, May 14, 2012
The tax increase in Nazareth Area School District's budget, which the school board plans to approve on May 21, has been trimmed to 1.9 percent.
The Nazareth Area School District budget for 2012-2013 shrank a bit in the administration’s final budget proposal when it comes to a tax increase -- but not by much. The proposed property tax increase is reduced to 1.9 percent, a slight reduction from the 2 percent increase proposed in the preliminary budget, which the Nazareth School Board passed in January. Here are additional highlights of the budget proposal presented at Monday’s meeting of the school board: No teachers will be laid off or furloughed, but a total of 10 positions, including seven teachers, will not be filled following retirements or departures. The budget is balanced: No money will be taken from the district’s fund balance -- roughly equivalent to a personal checking …
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The Blue Eagle sports schedule for the week of May 14.
Editor's Note: This schedule is provided for informational purposes only. All games are subject to change due to weather. This information is provided by www.highschoolsports.net. Monday, May 14: Tuesday, May 15: Wednesday, May 16: Thursday, May 17: Friday, May 18: Saturday, May 19:
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Here’s a look at what’s happening in the Nazareth Area School District this week.
Monday, May 14: PASA Science Testing for Grades 4-8 and 11: all-day event District-Wide Orchestra Dress Rehearsal: all-day event Girls Lacrosse Booster Club Meeting (high school): 7 to 9 p.m. in the high school cafeteria Nazareth School Board Meeting: 7:30 p.m. in the Walter L. Peters Board Room Tuesday, May 15: PASA Science Testing for Grades 4-8 and 11: all-day event District-Wide Orchestra Concert: 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium Wednesday, May 16: PASA Science Testing for Grades 4-8 and 11: all-day event Band Dress Rehearsal (high school and middle school): all-day event 3rd Grade Student Orientation: 8 to 11 a.m. Gifted Showcase Night at Nazareth Area Intermediate School: 6:30 to 8 p.m. Swimming and Diving Booster Club Meeting: 7…
Sunday, May 13, 2012
The Pa. Department of Health says time is running out for parents to comply with vaccination requirements.
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Sunday, May 13
Parents are running out of time to comply with new school immunization requirements, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. When the school year began, families were given eight months to bring students up to date with their vaccinations. On April 27, the department announced a two-week grace period. Final deadlines vary based on when each district began its school year. The health department estimates that the grace period will end in most districts within the next week. For example: New immunization regulations that took effect last August require: While the department established the new regulations, enforcement is left to individual school districts. School districts maintain the right to exclude students from school if …
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Katie Fritchman of Nazareth Area High School wins a student achievement award in the 10th Annual Freddy Awards, and the school was nominated in six other categories.
In the first year the school has participated in the Freddy Awards, Nazareth Area High School won a Freddy before the ceremony even took place. Katie Fritchman of Nazareth Area High School won a student achievement award for her role in school's production of Singin' in the Rain. It was announced at noon today on WFMZ Channel 69. Give the nominees and all the participants a shout out. Leave a message. The actual ceremony will be broadcast live May 24 at 7 p.m. from the State Theatre Center for the Arts in Easton by WFMZ. As part of the pre-show, Fritchman will be interviewed about her achievement. Along with the award, Fritchman earned an internship at The Express-Times. This is the first year Nazareth has participated in the Freddy Awards…
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Gary Kershner, of Nazareth, received an academic honor during Northampton Community College's Awards Convocation Ceremony on April 26.
Academic honors were conferred on 33 students -- including one Nazareth student -- at Northampton Community College during an Awards Convocation Ceremony on April 26. Gary Kershner, of Nazareth, received the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the International Society of Automation-Nicholas A. Stangil and Skip Todaro Award. Other area receipients included:
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Journalist Stephen Marche claims there is a war against youth and that the massive college student debt problem is part of it.
The specter of how to put two kids through college looms large in my life; I pick at it as one would a scab – and with similar results. Recently, a mother of three told me her daughter, an Emmaus High School grad who went on to a four-year school, has $60,000 in college loans – and she emerged with the least amount of debt among her friends. Strangely, that kind of burden on the middle class doesn’t bother syndicated columnist Cal Thomas. In an op-ed piece in The Morning Call last week he wrote this: “I feel about those with crushing tuition debt the way I feel about people who choose to live along the frequently flooded banks of the Mississippi River. If students and their parents choose expensive schools, they should accept the …
Rosemary B
10:52 am on Thursday, May 17, 2012
I once figured out that in order to pay cash for a MODEST 4 yr college my family would have had to have saved $400 per child per month since the day they were born. We have 3 kids. That would have been $1200 a month for the past 13 yrs. I am sure there are families out there that could have done that, but not us. We do occasionally like to eat and 5 of us living full time in a tent would have … more ›