The Erie School Board is considering a big decision as the school district prepares to start the $31.2 million update of Erie High School, the district's largest construction projects in years. The school directors are reviewing whether to waive a union-friendly bidding rule on the project, just as the same board of directors did in January for the $11.4 million in renovations at the Erie School District's Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy. The previous waiver applied only to the Collegiate work. The School Board must take a new vote on waiving the policy for the Erie High project. As it did with the Collegiate work, the administration of Erie schools Superintendent Brian Polito is urging the board to approve a waiver to help the district increase the number of bids on the Erie High project and keep the cost of the renovations as low as possible.