UCF Board salutes retiree, signs teacher pact, OKs suspension policy

By JP Phillips, Staff Writer, the Times Retiring CFES teacher Curt Barr. For 31 years, Barr carved his students names individually in wood and gave it to them as a gift just before winter break. PENNSBURY — The April 16th meeting of the Unionville Chadds-Ford School board was well attended at Hillendale Elementary due to a retirement, items up for a vote, and citizens’ issues. As is the tradition,...

Teachers, students pack CASD board meeting

Teachers’ union sets the record straight on contract requirements By Lauren Parker- Gill, News Editor, The Times The auditorium at the Coatesville Area Senior High School was packed with over 300 members of CATA Tuesday, some of whom spoke of the current contract negotiations. CALN – Hundreds of members of the Coatesville Area Teachers’ Association (CATA) turned out Tuesday night for the...

Teachers, UCF district face no-win situation

Both sides need to seek lest awful option in contract talks By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times You can’t really call it a war of words — it’s more like a pillow fight of words. The rhetoric of the last week or so between the Unionville-Chadds Ford Education Association and the UCF Board of Education over the ongoing contract talks has amounted to dialogue only a little elevated beyond the “you’re...