and only seventeen of them are in pennsylvania award competition the team students from peter township middle school took part in the math count competition on every seventh at washington and jefferson college in middle school team listed above took first place others and several students also earned individual ranking young student had very little contact with invention that led to the technologies they use today the teachers incorporate a mini museum into the program this week where students had a chance to view classic toys record players cassette recorders polaroid cameras bags cell seventeen students from peter township middle school and high school competed among more than four hundred students from across the region in the national history day contest and you think here focus on the theme of right and responsibility to history  in writing and rhetoric if students have to plan drafts and revise their essay in only one hour the student writers will recognize a luncheon and game later this month achievement for his high score on the exam the american math competitions are designed to engage students and effective mathematical problem solving and are consistent with curricular goals and prepare students for future mathematical success on february twenty eighth our home student celebrated their kids birth pride in their annual could earn a calibration event at the culmination of their social studies unit of western pennsylvania and the students had a chance to take part in many local traditions eleven to  this month high school student martin had a chance to show off their talent at the annual library office cafe each day of the week long event were dedicated to a different form of the art media an orchestra theater visual arts or it and a student roxanne's with a grand finale collection this year to the entire school and collected more than one hundred fifty him and several boxes of nonperishable food items that were delivered at peter's  your case the current had been made to distinguish ireland in the credentials spirit of community awards casey is among only two hundred thirty four students from across the nation to be recognized for their outstanding volunteer service he did raise more than eight thousand dollars the chapter of the national state teacher of your organization has recognized each staff members from peter sounds at middle school with apple award for their exceptional efforts in teaching coaching and other efforts to support education the right exact f members are listed a march twelfth central office administrator along with principals from the school building attended the keeping kids safe school safety and security seminar in downtown pittsburgh this prevents your inviolable insights from the department of homeland security secret service  own investigation and center for state school i didn't discuss features prevention and preparation just as opposed to studies of past i last week business manager vince delphic attended the annual pennsylvania association of school business officials conference in hershey mr bell's that was able to share ideas and best practices with school business planners from across the state and the sessions on the affordable assistant superintendent dr patrick are the biggest has been working with the teachers in grades can the one of the sixth grade to implement the new inventions math program at least one teacher at each grade level was piloting this program this spring for our students for seven years i continually spoke about this so i'll try to talk with playland even want to take five minutes i been reading the paper listening to the community and i'm very disappointed in what i see as conflict between your responsibilities as a board member to the district and to the students and your opinions or your reactions to some of the things that you may be seeing in our school regarding our students so i think that of course first of all i want to point out that you all know that the board is at the very top of the hierarchy so everyone you see and everyone you talk to who works for this district works for you please don't depend on a teacher or  administrator or principal or even the superintendent to try to put one of you in your place you need to know your place because who's going to tell their boss that your you're causing conflict in their building you cannot depend on one of our employees to do that so i think that the board needs to remember as i found on our website anybody can get on the website and look at the responsibilities of a school board member at the school board members responsibilities are not do not fall within the day to day operations they are to asked policy adopt change policy and revise policy and is the policy that the superintendent and the administration then uses around the district so not to mention that oftentimes and this actually has happened there is case life and we have two or three lawyers on this board so you probably could even find that that there is case law to support that when a board member finds themselves in a can like thin situation one of our schools oftentimes the administrator the principal or a teacher can say that they felt undue pressure because this individual who is their boss was there and then you have that power versus authority role and questions come into play so there could be a legal issue in this matter too but for me it's even a person all thank for our students when you're in one of our buildings and you see something that is not appropriate it would really be nice if you would just quietly and confidentially pass that on to the board and the superintendent i don't think the venue for a school board member is to use our media our newspapers or any form of media i'm not sure that the board has a policy on that i have found some which i will give to the superintendent that helps to regulate that behavior i know it's hard to control someone else but i feel like this district and the students have been made a mockery of recently i would have been reading in the paper and i do not i just do not think it's appropriate i do not think it's ordered behavior and if a board member feels that it is important to find their name in the paper then perhaps their volunteerism would be better served in another venue i don't know where that would be but it's just not a role when you're supposed to be serving our kids and your heart is has to be with these kids so that is what i want to say this evening i appreciate you giving  to talk and i wish you all the best i do know the heart or the board so good luck and thank you of yes there will be a policy committee meeting on march thirty first and i thought well i don't know what's coming first six thirty the education our policy ok ok and i just wanted to put the public on notice prior to that meeting we will have posted on the website a list of all of the proposed p s p a policies that we will be going over that evening our intent is to have some red line policies so that you can see what proposals we are changing as well as  gives you the reasons why we're proposing it only the items in which the board wants to discuss will be discussed that evening so i would encourage anybody to go away and look to see if groups and those sorts of items so if you have an interest in those policies please come because we do want your feedback thank you that p s p is strongly encouraging school boards to support resolutions to encourage legislature the legislature to support a new funding formula their idea is that school boards need a predictable way in which to determine how much money they're going to get from year to year and that in the past few years it has not been predictable at all and they are asking school boards to generate new shows to support that and as the p as a representative i have not brought that forward to you because i frankly don't know how it would fact our district because some of the things that they want the legislature to take into account  allocating some of it may benefit us in the fact that we're you know not an extremely small district and they want to take into account the number pupils that you have but they also want this state to look at how many economically disadvantaged students you have why is the ability of your population to you know pay taxes and find any shortfalls in state education and so i just wanted to explain to all of you that i have not brought that resolution because i don't know whether it would benefit us sure it would be great to have predictability but it means that it's predictability and that we're going to have less funding i really would rather have what we have now so that i just wanted to explain to you why i did not bring that resolution for and i also wanted to bring to your attention a p s p a web an r and i believe i didn't chat with you dr french but on march twenty sixth is in a new weapon are on superintended evaluations would we be able to show that in the conference room  have just a point of clarification the resolution states that we're proving the budget with our portion and i'm just wondering we don't have a say over the full budget just our quarter correct but the way that this is one hundred sixty two thousand right one hundred twenty two dollars but again the way that this is written and over they still requested to approve their budget so of all the districts were majority districts would not approve they would have to go back and redo their entire budget well can we prove they're our portion but not their budget i guess that's what i'm confused about the way that this is written we're saying we're prove their budget and our portion where we can improve our portion but not approve their budget if you follow it might because you were a does anyone know is this a maximum number of students i know that i had seen some e mails going around saying that students had to submit their application if they wanted to go to western areas or does that fluctuate her or is this  ok thank you time they spent some other activities  and may would you if that other fifty percent person decided if they were going to do it would you have a resignation on this or if you're here last month there was track away to fifty and this is what you do write two people the past but i just wanted to bring it up to the board for the future when we're looking at the con these contracts is there's been a lot of a lot of articles going around about protection of student information and there was a big law review article in december talking about the school's responsibility to protect student records federal  law requires us to protect any student identifiable education mark hurd's and i had a question with respect to the contracts because what happened was that in a slav review article is the author using freedom of information act request it information from school districts across the entire united states asking to see their contracts that they have entered into dealing with software educational based software or educational records might come into the hands of a third party provider and the whole our law review article was based on the fact that the language of the contracts didn't protect that data sufficiently and so that there's a lot of i information that had come recently they talked about p d sending out recommendations of language that we want to make sure is included in our contracts when we're allowing an outside third party access to our student data and there are certain exceptions and that sort of thing so with this dad i wasn't clear as to why the data if anything would be on someone else's servers whether it's on our servers only and if it is on someone else's servers there's an exception so that you can without permission from parents or students you're allowed to share what is called directory information and that wouldn't be a violation of the law and i looked at our directory information and we save and things like name address and phone number but one thing that isn't in there is email address so maybe that's something in our policies we can look at you know if this is even in the realm of what they have access it might just sit in our computer systems and never actually adds it into this third party at all but what i requested was that if we approve this that we work with the company to include language in the event that it is student record information that this third party would have access to that we include some of this recommended language from p d so that we're protecting it so that that third party providers restricted in how it could use it static that it's not going to take all the email addresses and personal information and sell it to someone else or use it for any other purpose  other than which we've contracted for so i know that mrs voucher did have called the company to kind of try and figure out those things and i i don't mind approving this but i would also like to put that stipulation that in the event that any of those recommended clauses need to be in or paraded into that i think as an ongoing basis we just need to all be