Education briefs 9-4-11
Curriculum night planned
A curriculum night will be held for the parents of students in the Albert Gallatin School District to discuss the curriculum, student expectations, and classroom procedures with teachers, administrators and counselors. The event for high school students will be held 6-8 p.m. Tuesday.
Students will be dismissed from the high school at 11 a.m. Curriculum night for North and South middle schools will be held 6-8 p.m. Wednesday. Those students will be dismissed at 11:45 a.m. The event will be held at all elementary schools 6-8 p.m. Thursday. Elementary school students in the district will be dismissed at 12:15 p.m. on that day.
Uniontown schedule set
Students at Uniontown Area High School will report to class on the first day with homeroom beginning at 7:40 a.m. Sept. 12. All student schedules will be distributed during homeroom.
Homeroom rosters, bus routes and the Fayette County Career & Technical Institute bus list are posted on the cafeteria windows at the school. Bus schedules are also posted at www.uniontown.k12.pa.us and www.heraldstandard.com.
Any student who plans to attend the high school this term who has not registered should do so by calling the high school office at 724-439-5000 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays. Students can purchase lunch on the first day. Prices are $1.65 or 40 cents at a reduced rate.
ACT registration open
Registration is now open for the Oct. 22 ACT achievement test. Students who wish to take the college admission and placement exam must register before Sept. 16.
The ACT is a curriculum-based achievement exam that tests what students have actually learned in school, not their aptitude for learning. The ACT also measures what students need to know to be ready for first year credit-bearing college courses based on ACT College Readiness Standards. The ACT has four sections-English, mathematics, reading and science-and takes about three hours to complete.
Students who take the ACT Plus Writing complete an optional writing test that requires an additional 30 minutes.
During registration, students may select up to four universities to receive their score reports. ACT scores are accepted by all four-year colleges and universities across the United States. ACT reports scores only when requested to do so by the student. Additional score reports are available for a small fee. The cost for the ACT test without writing is $34. When combined with the optional ACT Writing Test, the total cost is $49.50. Students who qualify may apply for a fee waiver through their high school counselor. For more information, visit www.actstudent.org.
Winter to speak at campus
Cory Winter, an attorney with Saul Ewing, L.L.P., will present “Social Media and You” noon Thursday in Swimmer Hall in the Williams Building on the campus of Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus.
At the free event, Winter will talk about how to keep information private and how to use social media responsibly.
Study to be discussed
A meeting to discuss the results of a feasibility study regarding the possible consolidation of three Greene County school districts will be held at 6 p.m. Sept. 12 in the library of Carmichaels Area High School.
The feasibility study was done to determine the cost effectiveness of combining the Jefferson-Morgan, Southeastern Greene and Carmichaels Area school districts.
Workshop planned
The Institute for Law and Public Policy at California University of Pennsylvania will play host to a pursuit policy training workshop for law enforcement agencies from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday at the Beaver County 911 Center in Ambridge, Pa.
The workshop presenter is Dr. Jeffrey Magers, a retired captain of the Jefferson County Police Department (now known as the Louisville Metro Police Department) in Louisville, Ky. Details and online registration are available at http://pursuitpolicy.org. For more information, call 724-597-7400 or send e-mail to manderino@calu.edu.