Meeting Recaps
MEETING RECAPS: 2025 | 2024 | 2023
12/16/2024: Angel of Greenwood
11/25/2024: Paragraph-by-paragraph review of proposed new library policy (policy 109.1)
11/11/2024: Teacher contract approved • Brussalis bullying • PSBA votes
10/21/2024: Students speak against book bans • Hypocrisy with scheduling and communication
10/7/2024 2 of 2: Brussalis' refusal to sign procedure/ethics form and failure to participate in evaluation
10/7/2024 1 of 2: Presidential Power Play: Agenda-setting
9/23/2024: Chaotic initial review of the Brussalis-Wiethorn book policy rewrite.
9/16/2024: Results show (1) overwhelming parent support for counseling lessons; and (2) board's excessive demands created extra stress and work for both counselors and parents
8/19/2024: Community supports teachers • Brussalis rewrites policy in the dark -- Sunshine Law violation?
8/5/2024: Teachers fill the auditorium • Board plans to address book policy at future meeting
7/15/2024: Curriculum prototypes finally passed • Stakeholder survey results
6/24/2024: Academic course descriptions • micromanaging teachers
6/10/2024: Counseling curriculum and Opt In vote • More work for counselors & parents
5/20/2024: Counseling curriculum (content, scope, opt in/out) • ELA resource opposed
5/6/2024: Miscellaneous updates • Counseling curriculum
4/22/2024 1 of 2: Counseling curriculum discussions
4/22/2024 2 of 2: Book Policy discussion
4/8/2024 • Superintendent makes final recommendations on challenged books. In 5-4 vote, board approves new curriculum pubilcation prototypes. Next counseling discussion rescheduled for April 22.
3/11/2024 • Counseling Plan Vote: academic & social-emotional support excluded. Board submits just the bare minimum to the PA Dept. of Ed. • Law firm selected
2/12/2024 • School Counselors and SEL targeted • Concerning legal firm finalists
1/22/2024 • 9th Grade Core Text • Inclement Weather Decisions
1/8/2024 • 9th Grade Core Text • Divisive seating • Proposed Program of Study (MS & HS)
Also Newsworthy
2/29/24 • PR teaching staff contracts are expiring. Beginning July 1, they will be working with no contract in place because negotiations are dragging out. Teacher morale is already at an all-time low at PR due to board's distrust, disrespect, and micromanagement. And this comes on top of a county-wide teacher shortage, putting PR at risk of losing talented teaching staff to other districts.
2/26/24 • School Board selects highly political law firm as finalist for PR legal representation.
1/18/24 • Conservative group challenges PR's nondiscrimination policy in federal court.