The mission of the Warren County School District is to educationally empower all students to think critically and solve problems through a rigorous curriculum that will provide them with the skills necessary to graduate and pursue a career of their interest.

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1. IU5 - Mr. Paul Mangione

2. PSBA Liaison - Mrs. Marcy Morgan

3. Career Center Advisory - Mrs. Elizabeth Huffman, Mr. Michael Zamborik

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This is notification of the purchase of various welding units using ARC matching grant funding for the Warren County Career Center.

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The Beacon Light Custer City Agreement provides educational services outside of the home district for special education students.  The FERPA agreement is included in the attachment. 

There is an increase in the daily tuition costs for 2018-2019 as compared to the 2017-2018 school year: Special Education $160/day (increase of $26.66/day); Life Skills $191/day (increase of $31.79/day); and Autism classroom $258.50/day (increase of $43.05/day).

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I.  Scope of Policy and Definition of Fraud

This Policy applies to any fraud involving District employees, outside support organizations, vendors, contractors, volunteers, and/or outside agencies doing business with the District and any other persons or parties in a position to commit fraud against the District.

For purposes of this Policy, the term fraud includes, but is not limited to, a person knowingly misrepresenting the truth or concealing a material fact in order to benefit himself/herself or another person or to induce another to act to his/her detriment. Examples of fraud include, but are not limited to:

1.   Falsifying, forging, or unauthorized altering of, any documents including, but not limited to:

a.   Claims for payments or reimbursements – including, but not limited to: submitting false claims for travel, allowable expenses, hourly work, medical claims, or overtime.

b.   Requests for permission to be absent from work including, but not limited to: requests for sick, bereavement, and other types of leaves of absence.

c.   Files (both physical and electronic forms), photographic or audio records, or accounts belonging to the District.

d.   Checks, bank drafts, or any other financial documents.

e.   Student records.

f.    Personnel records.

g.   Board minutes or other Board records.

h.   Business office records.

i.    Maintenance records.

j.    Fire, health and safety reports.

k.   Any other District record.

2.   Accepting or offering a bribe, gifts, promises, or other favors under circumstances indicating the gift or favor was intended to influence an employee’s decision-making.

3.   Disclosing to other persons the purchasing/bidding activities engaged in, or contemplated, by the District in order to give any entity, person or business an unfair advantage in the bid process.

4.   Causing the District to pay excessive prices or fees where justification is not documented.

5.   Unauthorized destruction, theft, tampering, inappropriate use, or removal of records, furniture, fixtures, or equipment.

6.   Using District equipment or work time for any outside private business activity.

7.   Failing to inform the District of material changes (such as marital status, age of children, etc.) that impact a spouse’s or child’s eligibility to be covered under an employee’s health insurance benefits or other benefits provided by the District to the employee. 

II.  Reporting and Investigation Alleged Fraud

Any potential fraud detected or suspected shall be reported immediately (within 24 hours) to the Superintendent or his/her designee, who shall then initiate an investigation regarding the potential fraud.  To the extent possible, the District will maintain the confidentiality of the identity of a person who reports potential fraud under this Policy, with the understanding that the identity of a reporter will be disclosed if required by law or as a part of due process.    

III.  Employee Acknowledgement

All current employees shall be required to sign a statement indicating they have read and understand this Policy.  All new employees shall be required to sign a statement indicating they have read and understand this Policy as part of the hiring process. 

IV.  Consequences for Violating this Policy

Any employee who violates this Policy shall be subject to disciplinary action, which may include termination, pursuant to the District’s employee discipline policies, procedures and/or practices. As applicable, violations by an employee may also be reported to the Pennsylvania Department of Education pursuant to the Educator Discipline Act and/or the Pennsylvania Ethics Commission.

Any volunteer who violates this Policy may be subject to adverse actions which may include, but are not limited to, termination as a volunteer, denial of any facility use requests, and/or exclusion from District property for a period of time determined appropriate by the Superintendent or his/her designee.

Any violation of this Policy by a contractor or vendor may result in adverse actions which may include, but are not limited to, a termination of services and any applicable contract, a prohibition against visiting District employees, and/or the contractor/vendor being ineligible for, or an unqualified bidder for, any future contracts to be awarded by the District. 

Any violation of this Policy by any other person or an outside group or agency (not a contractor or vendor), or any member thereof, may be subject to adverse actions which may include, but are not limited to, a termination of any work or services provided to the District, denial of any facility use requests, and/or exclusion from District property for a period of time determined appropriate by the Superintendent or his/her designee.

The Superintendent or designee may report any incident involving a violation of this Policy to any law enforcement agency having jurisdiction where the incident occurs.  

Adoption Date         - January 14, 2019 

Revised                    -       

Practice                    -       

Legal Reference       - 65 Pa.C.S.A. §1101, et. seq., 24 P.S. § 2070.1a, et. seq.

Cross Reference       - Policy 2025, 4135, 5002, 7135, 9646, 11401, & 11410

I.          Definitions

When used in this Policy, the following terms shall have the following meaning:

“Criminal Justice Information” (CJI) refers to all of the FBI criminal justice information system provided data necessary for law enforcement and civil agencies to perform their missions including, but not limited to, biometric, identity history, biographic, property, and case/incident history data.

“Electronic media” includes memory devices in laptops and computers (hard drives) and any removable, transportable digital memory media, such as magnetic tape or disk, backup medium, optical disk, flash drives, external hard drives, or digital memory card that contain CJI.

“Physical media” includes printed documents and imagery that contain CJI.

“Personally owned information system” means any non-District owned device of technology including camera, USB flash drives, USB thumb drives, DVDs, CDs, air cards and mobile wireless devices such as Androids, Blackberry OS, Apple iOS, Windows Mobile, Symbian, tablets, laptops or any personal desktop computer. 

“Remote Access” means any temporary access to the District’s CJI system by a user (or an information system) communicating temporarily through an external network that is not controlled by the District. 

II.        Purpose

The intent of this Policy is to ensure the protection of CJI until such time as the information is disposed of in accordance with the District’s Records Management Plan developed pursuant to Policy 3221.  This Policy applies to any electronic or physical media containing CJI while being stored, accessed or physically moved from a secure location by or on behalf of the District and to any authorized personnel who accesses, stores, and/or transports electronic or physical media.

III.      Authority

The following information was developed using the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy, the most current version of which shall always be the minimum standard with respect to the protection of CJI.

IV.       Guidelines

The Superintendent shall designate a CJIS Point of Contact (POC). The POC shall periodically review all accounts and systems containing CJI to ensure that access and account privileges commensurate with job functions, need-to-know, and employment status on systems that contain CJI.     

The District shall manage information system accounts, including establishing,     

activating, modifying, reviewing, disabling, and removing accounts. The POC shall periodically validate information system accounts and shall document the validation process.

1.   Proper Access

The District must be provided original CJI documents or access to online   copies of documents using authorized identification access for use, as required by applicable law and regulations. Original CJI documents will be returned to the individual who is the subject of the record. The District will not disseminate CJI to any other entity.   

Access to CJI is restricted to authorized personnel only. Authorized personnel is defined as an individual, or group of individuals, who have been appropriately vetted, trained, and granted access to CJI data because it is necessary to perform a job function. 

2.   Security and Protection of CJI

For the purpose of storing physical or electronic CJI, a secure, non-public location with controls sufficient to protect the CJI and associated CJI system shall be identified, maintained, and made accessible only to authorized personnel.  Authorized personnel will take necessary steps to best prevent and protect the District from physical, logical, and electronic breaches.

The transporting of CJI from one location to another shall be done only by authorized personnel and shall be done in a manner to prevent inadvertent or inappropriate disclosure and use of CJI.  

Under no circumstances shall any person be permitted to use a personally owned information system to access the CJI system or to process, store, or transmit CJI.  Remote Access to the CJI system or CJI shall not be permitted for any person under any circumstances.    

3.   Breach of Security

District employees, and any applicable third-party contractors, shall promptly report any known security breaches, incidents, violations, or misuse with respect to CJI or the CJI system to the POC.   The POC shall promptly report any known security breaches, incidents, violations, or misuse with respect to CJI or the CJI system to the appropriate authorities. 

4.   Disposal of CJI Records

CJI Records shall be subject to the applicable retention schedule contained in the District’s Records Management Plan developed pursuant to Policy 3221.  When being disposed of pursuant to the District’s Records Management Plan, hard drives, diskettes, tape cartridges, CDs, ribbons, hard copies, printouts, and other similar items used to process, store and/or transmit CJI shall be properly disposed of in accordance with requirements of the CJIS Security Policy standards.     

5.   Violations and Misuse

Any District employee who violates this Policy, any administrative procedure developed pursuant to the Policy, the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy, or 28 C.F.R. Part 20 shall be subject to disciplinary action, which may include loss of access privileges or termination, pursuant to the District’s employee discipline policies, procedures and/or practices. Any such violation may also be reported to the appropriate law enforcement entity for criminal prosecution. 

Any visitor, volunteer, contractor, or third party who violates this Policy, any administrative procedure developed pursuant to the Policy, the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy, or 28 C.F.R. Part 20 may be subject to adverse consequences including, but not limited to, termination of services and any applicable contract, criminal prosecution, denial of any facility use requests, ineligibility/disqualification for any future contracts to be awarded by the District, and/or exclusion from District property for a period of time determined appropriate by the Superintendent or his/her designee.

V.        Delegation of Authority

The Board hereby authorizes the Superintendent or his/her designee to develop administrative procedures with respect to this Policy and its implementation. 

Adoption Date      -  January 14, 2019

Review Date         - 

Revision Date       - 

Legal Reference    -  22 Pa.Code §8.1 et seq.

                                 Criminal Justice Information Services Security Policy

Cross Reference    -  Policies 3220, 3221, 5002, 5404, 7115, 7610, & 9646

The Board recognizes the value of a program of interscholastic athletics as an integral part of the total school experience to all students of the District and to the community.

An interscholastic activity will be regarded as District sponsored only upon the approval of the Board.

It shall be the policy of the Board to offer opportunities for participation in interscholastic programs to male and female students on an equal basis as is practical and in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

The Board shall determine the standards of eligibility of all students participating in the interscholastic program. Such standards shall require that each student be covered by student accident-medical insurance or its equivalent, be in good physical condition, be free of injury and shall have fully recovered from illness as determined by a physician, before participation in any interscholastic athletic events.

The Board further adopts those eligibility standards set by the constitution of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association.

The Superintendent is designated by the Board to have authority over the entire athletic program.

The Board authorizes the Superintendent or his/her designee to develop procedures on an as needed basis to address needs.

In preparing these procedures, the Superintendent is directed to issue procedures which are consistent with the mission of the District as enunciated in the Policy Manual or other directives of the Board. The Superintendent or his/her designee is directed to update annually the Athletic Handbook. The Handbook shall contain procedures to support this athletic policy including but not limited to rules, responsibilities and duties of all coaches and volunteers and other staff involved in the athletic program.

Furthermore, the Building Administrator shall be in charge of the athletic program in his/her school.

Specific Rules:

1. Principals and their designees, coaches and students shall conform to the requirements of the P.I.A.A. Constitution, By-Laws and Rules and Regulations of the P.I.A.A. and District Policies and Procedures.

2. The Board prefers that the District support student activities, but it may be necessary for students to raise funds to support these activities. Fundraising must be approved and supervised by the principal; funds raised will be used solely to reimburse the District for costs advanced by the District for that activity. If a student helps in raising funds to support their activity, this does not guarantee a position or preferential treatment as a member of that team. If a student does not participate in raising funds to support the activity, he/she will not be denied a position on the team or receive non-preferential treatment as a member of the team.

3. The Building Administrator or his/her designee will be in attendance at all athletic home contests.

4. There shall be no athletic practices on major holidays. Athletic practices may be conducted during other school vacation periods. Only practices may be held on Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day by special permission of the principal.

5. The Building Administrator shall adhere to Policy 10465 with regard to the proposed elimination of any athletic team.

Note: Safety and Well-Being of Student Athletes

When contest scheduling decisions made outside of the control of Warren County School District generate a Sunday contest, varsity teams may travel and compete with the prior permission of the Superintendent or his/her Central Office designee. Additionally, when a Monday contest is scheduled, varsity teams may practice, with the prior, permission of the Superintendent or his/her Central Office designee, on Sunday from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (the practice must occur during these hours and cannot exceed 2 hours in duration). No other Sunday contests or practices are to be considered for approval. If other special circumstances arise, the Superintendent or his/her Central Office designee may grant varsity teams permission for Sunday travel, practices (from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and not exceeding 2 hours in duration) and contests. Any permission that is granted by the Superintendent or his/her Central Office designee pursuant to this paragraph for Sunday travel, practices, or contests must be in compliance with applicable PIAA requirements.

Adoption Date - May 9, 2005

Revision Date - August 8, 2011; February 11, 2019

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