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Hatboro-Horsham committee recommends new middle‑school science text and mandatory high‑school personal finance resource
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The curriculum committee recommended adopting Savvas’s Experience Science for grades 6–8 and NextGen Personal Finance for a new mandatory half‑credit high school course; formal approval and any spending will be considered at the district’s legislative meeting on April 27.
The Hatboro‑Horsham School District curriculum committee on April 13 recommended two curriculum adoptions intended to standardize learning across grade bands and meet updated state expectations.
Dr. David Weber, the district’s director of curriculum, recommended Experience Science from Savvas for grades 6–8, describing it as a six‑year subscription model that pairs digital and physical materials and was piloted in classrooms this year. Weber told the board the program embeds Pennsylvania science standards and includes environmental literacy and engineering practices within the middle‑school sequence. “We are recommending for adoption Experience Science by Savvas,” Weber said during the presentation.
Weber also recommended NextGen Personal Finance as the curricular resource for a new mandatory half‑credit personal finance course at the high school. He said the nonprofit‑developed, primarily digital resource is already in use in multiple states, will allow the district to build roughly 48 lesson sequences suitable for the high‑school block schedule, and expects eventual enrollment growth toward about 325 students when the requirement phases in for the class of 2029.
Board members asked for clarifications on publisher updates, the balance between digital and physical materials, and the program’s alignment with the Pennsylvania standards. Weber said the district will evaluate the science program after year one and that the digital subscription model typically includes periodic updates from the publisher.
The committee agreed to hold any formal spending motion and to bring a recommendation to the April 27 legislative action meeting for final action and public review of materials.
