A cut of approximately $30,000 to the school district’s technology budget shouldn’t do much to slow down Danville, according to their network administrations director.
“We have a year-to-year refresh cycle for our technology, and we’re going to continue with that, we’re just going to reduce the amount,” said Jeff Ryan.
DANVILLE - For the premier episode of the Pennsylvania Cable Network’s “Discover Main Street PA” program, viewers will see the sights and sounds of Danville’s Mill Street.
Members of the Danville school board approved the creation of the “Danville Cyber Academy” at their May 14 board meeting. The cyber school will offer online courses in addition to ones in the school districts. It can also provide remediation, academic enrichment and additional course selection for district students.
Three high school state business champions are looking for local sponsors to help send them to their national tournament in California this summer.
Danville High School’s Future Business Leaders of America team members Ryan Conrad, Steven Zhang and Andy Nguyen were named state champions in the “Emerging Business Issues” category at the state FBLA championship held April 15 to 17 in Hershey.
Leading the charge at the Susquehanna Valley March for Babies this weekend will be two-year old Daniella Andreacci and her parents, Stephanie and Joe.
It’s well-earned reward for the Bloomsburg family, who serves as this year’s ambassador family for the regional March of Dimes event, especially since her parents were scared Daniella wouldn’t even survive.
Bishop Joseph McFadden, who died suddenly the morning of May 2, had visited St. Joseph Catholic Church for sacramental confirmation just last week.
“It’s a sad time. He was here a week ago, he looked very well,” said Ronald Valania, principal of St. Joseph’s Catholic school. “It’s sudden and very much a surprise.”
School board members have approved $65,595.15 in change orders for construction for the Danville Middle School.
The changes are primarily several smaller items and include rerouting pipe work, door and frame revisions and adding ceiling bulkheads to part of the building. All of the change orders are reimbursable through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
School officials are crunching numbers to calculate what upcoming changes to healthcare laws spell for the district.
“There are many different pieces and parts to it…we’re taking it one day at a time,” said district business manager Janis Venna. While it is a great thing for people to have access to healthcare, she said, the regulations for doing so are incredibly complex.
Forty-one insurance brokers from across the Susquehanna Valley region gathered at Pine Barn Inn for a seminar preparing them for next year’s healthcare changes brought about by the Affordable Healthcare Act.
The seminar was hosted by Geisinger Health Plan, with one of the main events being a presentation from Vince Phillips, a Harrisburg lobbyist who has represented several health insurance associations. Attendees came from nearby counties with other traveling from as far as Harrisburg, State College and Wilkes-Barre.
A new health plan offered by Highmark misrepresents the quality of care offered by Geisinger Medical Center, according to Geisinger Health System’s CEO and authority board.
Under Highmark’s new Community Blue Premier Flex program, Geisinger Medical Center is considered a “standard value” instead of an “enhanced value” medical provider, a designation that comes with out of network care costs for plan holders.
The Danville school board will hold a special meeting at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 5, at the Danville High School to review fact-finding results from their negotiations with the district’s teacher’s union. The state-appointed fact finder has drafted a report with recommendations for both sides on reaching a settlement.
