CASD board, administration thumb noses at community

When answers are needed, stonewalling and hostile behavior hurts everyone By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times Ultimately, it comes down to respect. Tuesday night, we saw one of the more egregious examples of a public body and public school administration showing not just a lack of respect for parents, students and taxpayers, but frankly, utter contempt for those daring to ask about a series of disturbing...

Libraries plug into new kids’ literacy resource

Interactive e-reading program pairs fiction, non-fiction for ages 3-8 Chester County Library patrons now have free access to new children’s e-reading technology made available by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, the library announced Tuesday in a news release. BookFlix, an online e-reading program from Scholastic that pairs classic fictional storybooks with similarly themed nonfiction...