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Residents ask Penn-Trafford School Board to fund middle-school swim program
Summary
Two residents urged the Penn-Trafford School District to convert an existing middle-school swim club into a district-funded sport, citing growing participation, low per-student costs and benefits for inclusion and high-school team pipeline.
Two residents asked the Penn-Trafford School District Board of School Directors on April 1 to add a proposal to the board agenda that would fund a district-sponsored middle-school swim team and amend the union contract to allow it.
The request came during the board's public-comment period. Abby Owak, identifying herself as a Manor borough resident and a representative of the high-school swimming boosters, told the board the middle-school program expanded from 28 to 33 then 29 swimmers over three seasons and that the boys team finished third and the girls fourth this year. “A middle school…
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