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The mission of the Warren County School District is to support the personal and intellectual success and wellness of every student, every day.

Principles for Governance and Leadership

Pennsylvania school boards are committed to providing every student the opportunity to grow and achieve.  The actions taken by the Board ultimately have both short and long-term impact in the classroom.  Therefore, school directors collectively and individually will...

Plan Thoughtfully

• Adopt and implement a collaborative comprehensive planning process, including regular reviews
• Set annual goals that are aligned with the comprehensive plan
• Develop a financial plan that anticipates both short and long-term needs
• Formulate a master facilities plan conducive to teaching and learning

Financial Reports

1. IU5 - Mr. Paul Mangione

2. PSBA Liaison - Mrs. Marcy Morgan

3. Career Center Advisory - Mrs. Elizabeth Huffman

BOARD/COMMITTEE MEETING DATES

Pearson Digital Assessment Library will provide school psychologists, speech & Language Pathologists and service providers with access to digital administration, scoring and reporting of evaluations.  The digital assessment library promotes the evaluators focus on the student throughout the process by reducing the evaluators need to focus on management of papers during direct assessment.   The digital library eliminates the need to purchase paper versions of assessment protocols, hand-scoring, inventory management, reduce paper waste, level assessment costs, and reduce inefficient time-management required with the paper evaluation tools. 

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The Accelerate Education workbooks accompany the virtual content to allow students to work through the material.  The purchase would enable students to be ready to move into a virtual format immediately in the event of a school closure due to COVID. 

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As a local taxing authority, the Board recognizes the school district’s responsibility to comply with the requirements of the Tax Reform Act of 1998.

Eligible taxes shall be defined as all non-real estate taxes, including per capita; occupation, occupation assessment and occupation privilege; income and net profits; business gross receipts; privilege; amusements or admissions; and any other tax authorized by the Local Tax Enabling Law.

The Board District shall adopt a Local Taxpayer Bill of Rights that includes the following components:

1.  Taxpayer rights and the district’s obligation during an audit or administrative review of the taxpayer’s books or records.

2.  Administrative, judicial, and hearing procedures for a taxpayer to appeal or seek review of a tax decision.

3.  Procedures for filing and processing refund claims and taxpayer complaints.

4.  Enforcement procedures.

The Board District shall ensure that taxpayers are notified about the District’s Local Taxpayer Bill of Rights any time they are contacted regarding assessment, audit, determination, review and collection of any tax other than property taxes. The District shall respond to taxpayer requests for Local Taxpayer Bill of Rights making copies available at the district offices or mailing at District expense.

It shall be the responsibility of the Superintendent, Director of Business Services, and/or other designated District employee to, with the assistance of the Solicitor, develop the Local Taxpayer Bill of Rights and procedures to implement this policy that shall include:

1. Preparation and dissemination of the required notice of availability of the Local Taxpayer Bill of Rights.

2. Preparation of a Local Taxpayer Bill of Rights.                            

2. Preparation of a procedure for the District to request information from a taxpayer.

3. Establishment of an administrative appeals process.

4. Development of the form, content, process and deadlines for taxpayers to file a tax appeal petition.

6.   Formulation of rules of practice and procedure for hearings.

The District shall respond to taxpayer requests for Local Taxpayer Bill of Rights making copies available at the district offices or mailing at District expense.

Information obtained by the District as a result of an audit, return, report, investigation, hearing or verification shall be confidential.  If a violation of confidentiality is committed by an officer or employee of the District Board, he/she shall be subject to fines criminal prosecution and dismissal from office or discharge from employment.

Appeals Process

The District establishes the following administrative process to receive and make determinations on petitions from taxpayers relating to assessment, determination or refund of an eligible tax:

• The Board appoints the Earned Income Tax Office Manager as the Hearing Officer with compensation to be reflective of his/her hourly rate for duties performed outside of the regular workday.  Review or hearing and decision by the Tax Appeal Board that is appointed by the Warren County Tax Collection Committee (TCC).

Adoption Date         -     September 13, 1999

Practice                    -    January 1, 1999

Revision Date          -     March 8, 2021

Review Date            -    

Legal Reference       -     53 Pa. C.S.A, §8401, et. seq.; 53 Pa. C.S.A, §8422

                                     53 Pa. C.S.A, §8423; 53 Pa. C.S.A, §8430;

                                     53 Pa. C.S.A, §8437; 53 P.S. §6924.101, et. seq.

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The proposed change to the calendar indicates March 15th will be used as the first energy make-up day, if needed, instead of February 12th.

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The cost of the contract is an approved expense within the 2020-21 Perkins grant budget, as approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. The agreement will terminate at the end of the 2020-21 school year.  Please see attachment.

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We, Warren County School District Board of School Directors, are in support of the Deadman Corner project. The project attempts to address the issue of balancing age class distribution across the Allegheny National Forest. The current early structural percentage of 3.1% is less than identified in the current Forest Plan. The issue of increasing early structural forests has been a documented goal in the past two forest plans. The establishment of early structural forests needs to be aggressively pursued as the Allegheny National Forest continues to mature and early forest structure is more challenging to develop. The techniques proposed in the Deadman Corners plan are essential to be successful in the project goals and outcomes. The recent conclusions of the Allegheny Forest Collaborative also suggests the focus of increasing the early forest structure and the techniques proposed. In addition, the elimination of the old growth in the project area is supported as research has shown the species composition of the old growth stands are not only less diverse, the species present are susceptible to invasive/ non-native insect and disease.
 

In short our organization strongly supports not only the Deadman Corners project, but any project across the Allegheny National Forest landscape that increases early structural conditions toward the goal set in the past and present forest plan.

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