She was selected from a highly-qualified field of over 70 applicants, according to the foundation’s board chairman, Joseph Huber.
Local Educational News
News and insight on Franklin County schools and colleges from preschool to university.
With the decision to reinstate the fall football season, teams will play their first games starting Oct. 23. The season will conclude with the conference championship game on Dec. 19,
Programming will range from the new PBS KIDS program “Elinor Wonders Why” for young science enthusiasts to “The Story of China” for high school social studies learners.
PSUMA Colloquy Series talks this fall will take place via Zoom. The talks will highlight current faculty research and are open to the public and free of charge.
CVAS encourages anyone interested in bringing a four-legged friend into their home to check out the wonderful animals available for adoptions at the shelter.
With more students logging in online and at home, many parents and students are feeling overwhelmed.
Chambersburg Area School District Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor: From optimism to losing faith
CASD taxpayer Tracy Hershey takes Dr. Dion Betts and the CASD board to task in letter publicly criticizing Betts.
Because of continued concerns about transmission of COVID-19 and more restrictive guidelines for large indoor gatherings, commencement ceremonies for May and August graduates, planned to take place on campus September 12, will be offered in a virtual format.
Instead of in-person classes, students will get “robust online, remote instruction“ this fall.
The decision came after the board listened to over an hour of public comments submitted by email from CASD parents and taxpayers
Wyatt-Thermil is a former Division I student-athlete with a passion for helping student-athletes achieve academic success.
The school district will hold two ceremonies — one on Tuesday and one on Wednesday — in the WASD auditorium. They will run from 3-8 p.m. both evenings.
United Way of Franklin County is once again coordinating its annual school supply donation drive, Stuff the Bus.
On Mondays children will receive three breakfast and three lunch meals and on Thursdays two breakfast and two lunch meals.
In addition to the three students from Franklin County, 17 students from nearby Adams and Cumberland Counties are among Reach Cyber Charter School’s Class of 2020. They include:
Auditor General Eugene DePasquale Is recommending strengthening PA law on bullying in schools.
He starts his new job at Wilson July 1, replacing David Boisvert. Boisvert served as an interim vice president in the role for three years.
Chambersburg’s JROTC cadets are on a roll. In what has already been a banner year for the Chambersburg Area Senior…
The coronavirus pandemic forced the cancellation of the college’s traditional commencement ceremony this year, so graduates will get a virtual ceremony now and a formal ceremony this fall.
One Franklin County school and community pulled off an amazing porch prom while maintaining social distancing! Next up, plans for Class of 2020 Graduation!
It’s been a tough year for the county’s graduating seniors. But local seniors have dug in, completed assignments online and…
A social entrepreneurial enterprise built on pivoting the power of the pen to influence the world, Ghost Writer established the contest to provide a creative outlet for young people and to support local businesses
Education Secretary Pedro Rivera said a few months of review and enrichment by districts such as Chambersburg’s is not enough to make sure kids are prepared for the next academic year, however.
The addition of the NCEA Equestrian team for hunt seat competition is a significant and positive development for Wilson’s program
Local Educational News
Pennsylvania school districts want to suspend cyber charter school enrollment
By Christen Smith | The Center Square Pennsylvania school districts want public education officials to suspend cyber charter school enrollment during…
Secretary of Education Pedro A. Rivera said his decision to close all schools for the additional period aligns with the governor’s stay-at-home directive announced.
Franklin County schools will remain closed into April as state officials battle a spreading Coronavirus threat. The numbers of new cases of COVID-19 are rising rapidly across the state.
WITF’s Smart Talk is taking its show on the road. The Harrisburg-based public radio station hosts Smart Talk Road Trip: Celebrating Women’s History and the Right to Vote
Students from the Franklin County Career and Technology Center will visit CAMS South next week for the 3rd Annual Careers Road Show.
Students in the Strategy Implementation class in the John L. Grove College of Business at Shippensburg University want to show their Raider pride this year.
Waynesboro Area School District
Local Student Representing Waynesboro as a National Youth Correspondent
Kathryn Chiarizia, a student at Waynesboro Area Senior High School, has been selected to represent Waynesboro, PA as a National Youth Correspondent to the 2020 Washington Journalism and Media Conference at George Mason University.
Chambersburg Area School District
CASHS NJROTC Cadets to Represent Pennsylvania at the Navy National Championships
February 15th, 2020, will be remembered as a landmark date for the Cadets of Chambersburg Area Senior High School’s (CASHS) Navy Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (NJROTC) Program.
State legislators representing various parts of. Franklin County announced Wednesday that school safety grants will go to six local school districts, plus Franklin County Career and Technology Center.
The Muhibbah Club, Wilson’s international student organization, will host a dinner featuring dishes from around the world March 7.
Nearly 1,700 issues of the Wilson College student newspaper are now online and searchable. A grant has allowed the college to digitize the papers and make them available to researchers on and off campus.
Mastriano presented Fugate with the citation at the senator’s downtown Chambersburg office last week.
Chambersburg Area School District
Stevens Elementary Staff, Students Praised for ‘Distinguished School’ Status
It takes a village… so the saying goes. Tom Knepper, Stevens Elementary School principal, credits the entire Stevens community with the success of its Title I program.
Seven graduating Cadets from the Chambersburg Area School District Navy Junior ROTC Program spent a day on Capitol Hill recently, touring the Nation’s Capital and learning more about the Federal Government.
Cathy Dusman was “extremely surprised” to hear her contract with Chambersburg Area School District was not going to be renewed when first told about it a few days before it appeared on a school board agenda last month.
Chambersburg Area School District
Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School Designated a Title I Distinguished School
Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School has been designated a Title I Distinguished School for the 2019-2020 school year.
On the one year anniversary of the Safe2Say program, Attorney General Josh Shapiro said “Safe2Say Something PA” has reached over 40,000 tips from across the Commonwealth.