SENECA VALLEY
The district is looking for new principals at Haine Middle School and Evans City Middle School.
District spokeswoman Linda Andreassi said Haine principal Dan DiDesiderio will be leaving to take an administrative position at the Fox Chapel School District.
Evans City principal Marie Palano will become supervisor of analytics and federal programs for Seneca Valley, she said.
The supervisor position was recently created. It was previously a secondary principal for data and analysis position that has been vacant for some time.
Ms. Andreassi said the district hopes to fill both principal positions by March.
WOODLAND HILLS
The district is seeking court approval for the sale of its administration building.
The PACE Schools Foundation has offered $700,000 for the site at 2430 Greensburg Pike in Churchill, said superintendent Alan Johnson.
The state school code and various other laws require that a private sale be approved by the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas at a public hearing.
“The purpose of this hearing is to assure that the proposed private sale is in the best interests of the taxpayers of the district,” Mr. Johnson said.
The hearing is set for Room 703 in the City-County Building, Downtown, at 11:15 a.m. Feb. 28.
The district has been considering a sale of the property since at least 2014. The 32,417-square-foot building sits on 2.83 acres.
Any objections to the petition for court approval must be filed before Feb. 18.
UPPER ST. CLAIR
The school board is seeking a special exception in state Act 1 regulations in the event the district may need to exceed the state threshold for raising property taxes for the 2017-18 budget.
In accordance with Act 1, the board needed to approve a resolution, which the board did last week, and to draft a proposed preliminary budget that will soon be available for review on the district website.
School officials said an exception for pension and special education expenditures would give the district financial flexibility during the budget process.
The district’s adjusted Act 1 Index for 2017-18 is 2.5 percent, which equals $1.3 million, or 0.608 mills. It equates to $122 per $200,000 of assessed property value. If the resolution had not been adopted, $122 would be the maximum allowable tax increase.
PLUM
A high school student was cited for harassment and disorderly conduct after she was involved in a “one-sided” fight with another girl on Jan. 18, authorities said.
Pam and Chad Salerno demanded at the school board meeting Tuesday that members address safety and disciplinary policies at the school. Their daughter Marissa, 15, was sitting in a booth in the cafeteria when the other girl grabbed her by the hair and began punching her. Another girl filmed the “assault” on her phone and posted it online, Ms. Salerno said. Her daughter was taken to the emergency room in an ambulance.
“She’s missing pieces because she believes at one point she blacked out a little bit,” Ms. Salerno said about her daughter, who had to have a CT scan after the incident and still has faint bruising near her eye.
The teen is now afraid to go to school, her mother said.
Superintendent Timothy Glasspool said the student who initiated the fight and the student who recorded it both received the appropriate disciplinary action per school district policy.
He couldn’t disclose what action was taken.