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Lexia Learning and Voyager Sopris Learning Recognize Structured Literacy Champions with ‘Dr. Louisa Moats Award’
May 4, 2021 GMT
DALLAS (BUSINESS WIRE) May 4, 2021
Lexia® Learning and Voyager Sopris Learning ® today announced three awardees and three finalists of the first-ever “Dr. Louisa Moats Award for Excellence Implementing the Science of Reading.” The award celebrates schools and districts for their excellence using the science of reading and
LETRS ® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling), a professional learning solution that provides K-5 educators with the knowledge to be literacy and language experts.
Volunteers fanned out across the Poconos Saturday morning with garbage bags in hand to collect the litter that has emerged along with springtime blossoms.
As the snow melted, the trash situation revealed itself as “exceptionally bad,” Brianna Strunk, public relations manager for the Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau, said between checking in volunteers outside PMVB’s Stroudsburg visitor center.
An April cleanup was planned for last year, said PMVB President/CEO Chris Barrett, but scrapped in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. PMVB did carry out a region-wide cleanup across Carbon, Monroe, Pike and Wayne counties in September.
Volunteers picked up trash bags, T-shirts, vests, gloves and cup-holder-sized trash cans (a thank-you, as well as a reminder to responsibly dispose of trash, Barrett noted) at sites across the Poconos before starting the cleanup. PMVB worked with municipalities to designate routes that full bags could be left along for pickup, and Waste Management
Student claims staff tore his shoulder at Bushkill Township school for at-risk kids
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A former student at Colonial Academy claims staff dragged him into the school’s “calming room,” where they slammed him into walls and furniture.
The assault left Dillon Sajudin with a torn shoulder that required surgery to repair, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this month in federal court.
The lawsuit says Sajudin, of East Stroudsburg, was a sophomore at the school for at-risk children in Bushkill Township when the attack allegedly occurred Sept. 10, 2019.
The lawsuit says Sajudin was asked by his teacher to stand in the hallway. He was standing in the hall when he was approached by staff members Matthew Giovanni, Ryan Pysher and Corey Nahf, the lawsuit says. The lawsuit says they dragged him to the calming room, where they attacked him.
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PHILADELPHIA - The Stroudsburg Area School District and other defendants were sued in the federal Pennsylvania court on April 14.
According to the complaint filed in the District of Eastern Pennsylvania, the suit is from a father and son, plaintiffs Dillon and Dino Sajudin of East Stroudsburg.
Other defendants in the case include the school s special needs contracted school, Colonial Intermediate unit 20 (CIU), and three CIU employees: Ryan Pysher, Matthew Giovannini and Corey Nahf.
Dillon Sajudin attended CIU as a freshman and sophomore from 2018 to 2020. On September 10, 2019, Dillon was allegedly told by his teacher to stand in the hallway for a while, where the plaintiff says he was confronted by the three defendant employees.
The Pleasant Valley School Board passed a resolution Thursday that could allow for the furlough of up to 51 employees, for economic reasons.
“The budget forced our hand to pass the resolution tonight,” Superintendent Lee Lesisko said. “ It would behoove us to have teachers and professional staff sit in a classroom with no kids and pay them, it would be fiscally irresponsible. We don’t want to furlough, but if we don’t, we’ll go bankrupt in the next few years.”
The resolution states the board’s intent to suspend a maximum of 39 professional employees that provide instruction, a maximum of four administrative staff and a maximum of eight other professional employees.