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FIRST RIVER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET ADOPTED BY SPLIT VOTE By Hometown2
Jun 29, 2021 | 8:36 PM
At a meeting Tuesday night, the Blairsville-Saltsburg school board passed the budget for the first year of the re-named River Valley School District, but the vote was split between Blairsville and Saltsburg representatives.
The final tally for the budget came to a 6-3 vote, with Beverly Carnese, Holly Hall and Linda Brown voting against it. Brown said that she felt that voting for the spending plan would be a vote against Saltsburg.
The budget came to $35,698,525, with no tax increases for district residents.
It also came to a split vote when it came to approving raises for several positions in the district, including a 4 percent raise for Superintendent Philip Martell. This time, the argument centered around O. Garfield Jones rules of order, and the way the motion was made, a board member could either approve all the raises presented or reject them all. Beverly Car
The Saltsburg community group Save Our Saltsburg Schools has filed a civil lawsuit and preliminary injunction in its latest efforts to stop a plan that closes Saltsburg Middle/High School this
BLAIRSVILLE-SALTSBURG BOARD MEETINGS SET
Apr 21, 2021 4:19 AM
The Blairsville-Saltsburg School Board will hold a committee meeting tonight, on the eve of tomorrow night’s special meeting at which the board will vote on whether or not to permanently close the Saltsburg Middle-High School.
Tonight’s meeting does not have a published agenda, but tomorrow night’s does. It calls for citizen remarks on the motion to close the school, then consideration of the motion and a vote.
The motion itself is quite simple; it notes that the required public hearings were held on the matter on January 13
th and 14
th, that the 90-day moratorium on a final vote has now passed, and that the board wishes to render its decision. The administration is then directed to take any and all actions to notify the state Department of Education and to do whatever is necessary to affect the closure.
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Apr 2, 2021 5:28 AM
The Blairsville-Saltsburg School District is designing its own cyber/charter school, joining a movement among public school districts across the commonwealth to combat private charter schools that are competing with them while at the same time draining local school district finances for their funding.
On
Indiana In the Morning on WCCS yesterday, Blairsville-Saltsburg Superintendent Philip Martell said the charter school issue has been a problem for years, since school districts are forced by state law to pay cyber and charter school fees and tuition for students from within their districts.
Blairsville-Saltsburg is developing its own cyber/charter school to debut as early as the next school year. Purchase Line intends to start its “Red Dragon Cyber Academy” as early as this fall as well, and Penns Manor, United, Homer-Center, Marion Center, and Indiana Area already have in-house cyber or charter schools.