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Pennsylvania has strict limitations on funding schools. Local governments heavily influence the funding that does occur. The school district governance in Philadelphia has been a subject of debate. A large majority of the revenue that the local government receives is from property taxes. In the year 2000 property taxes regarded for almost $10 billion of the revenue in Pennsylvania. That was 30 percent of the total revenue that the local government received and 70 percent of all local government

History, Products, and Major Competitors Pleasant Valley Recreation Center, hereinafter referred to as Pleasant Valley, is an old family bowling alley that introduced the sport of bowling to the blue ocean community of Altoona, Pennsylvania. According to the plaque and picture on the wall, Pleasant Valley opened in 1945 with just six bowling lanes. Under the ownership of Robert Di Ventura Sr., Pleasant Valley expanded its bowling alley to 32 lanes, installed automatic pin setting machines, innovated

For my overall performance I feel that I have been doing pretty well, but I feel that I could be doing so much better. I know that whenever I started in pathophysiology (Nursing 225), I didn’t know the best way for me to study. So, I was studying only a couple nights before the exams. I ended up at mid-semester with a 75% and I was afraid I wouldn’t pass. I started studying every night. This helped a lot and I ended up passing the class with a B-. I feel that I know how to study better for nursing

$1,000 more than mechanical engineers after graduation. This bachelorette's degree has a 100% placement rate and only needs a 2.5 GPA compared to the mechanical engineer degree who needs a GPA of 3.0. Since the degree is only offered at Penn State Altoona, the tuition will also be less compared to the tuition of a mechanical engineer going through the Penn State College of Engineering. Nonetheless, an associate's degree is not always the best choice in getting a college education. Earning an associate's

Residential Treatment Facilities contracted with the Single County Authority (Gaudenzia – Erie, PA; Turning Point – Franklin, PA; White Deer Run – Allenwood, PA; Pyramid – Altoona, PA; Alpine Springs – Linesville, PA; Gateway – Aliquippa, PA; Greenbriar – Washington, PA; Conewago – Pottsville, PA) – As many individuals leaving either jail to go to an inpatient facility, or leaving the community to go directly to treatment facility

I managed to sit down for an interview with Josh Keely, the current Vice President of Product Development at Delta Health Technologies in Altoona PA. One of the first things Josh said to me was “No one owns it like you own it”, and that statement set the tone for the rest of the interview. Josh and his business partner at the time developed an application called “AppointMate”, which is an application to help managers of the private duty health care businesses. He managed to grow from 100 small “mom

It's not easy to stand up against traditional views. But when someone does, people take notice. American politician and gay rights activist Harvey Milk is an example of this. Frequently called the gay Martin Luther King, he was the first openly gay city commissioner in America. He discussed state and national affairs affecting gays and was a leader of the gay community in San Francisco. In addition, he was posthumously given the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. Milk challenged traditional gay

When I was younger, my family said a few of the colloquialisms from this area since they’ve lived here their whole lives. My mother was from Latrobe and my father was from Johnstown. We lived in a small, extremely rural area between Johnstown and Altoona where you could always smell natural fertilizer and you lived a fair distance from your neighbors. So, by the time I entered school, I had heard a few of them like gob, dippy egg, and sweeper. School was where I learned more phrases and started using

However, both companies have been able to combine these aspects which is attractive to many consumers. Perhaps looking at the history of both companies can lead some insight to this transformation. Sheetz was founded in 1952 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and began to spread out as primarily convenience stores. In 1972 the company had expanded to seven to fourteen stores, and a year later Sheetz added gasoline pumps. It was in 1995 that Sheetz began to introduce touchscreen ordering

The Milk of Human Kindness My whole life I lived in fear of myself, until I heard about Harvey Milk. I have very vivid memories of myself as an adolescent, running away from boys who gave me a feeling that nobody else seemed to experience. That feeling was of course love, and I wouldn’t come to understand this emotion until I learned about a man who died to defend my right to have it. Harvey Milk was born in Long Island, New York, to two Jewish Lithuanian Immigrants, in the year 1930. After college