Mill Creek School Board approves packets of curriculum, personnel and finance items; teacher conference request OK'd

The Mill Creek Township School Board approved multiple consent and action items in block votes at its Sept. 22 meeting, moving through curriculum approvals, personnel changes, student service contracts and finance reports in a series of motions and voice votes.

The board approved agenda items including the agenda itself and minutes for Aug. 18, 2025, and the committee-of-the-whole minutes for Sept. 8, 2025. Under Instruction and Student Services, the board approved curriculum items and related requests that had been discussed at the Sept. 6 committee meeting; the motion covered items listed on the agenda as 5.01 through 5.2 (as read at the meeting). Those items included elementary and secondary English language arts course approvals, elective course approvals (including fantasy and science fiction literature and a Disney elective), a grade-10 world history academic course, several field-trip requests and affiliation agreements for clinical experiences with Holy Family University’s School of Nursing.

The board approved several student placement and service agreements for the 2025–26 school year including: payment to a community day placement at $105 per day; one-on-one aide services at $215 per day for individual students; and an extended school year service at $243 per day (23 days, July 1–Aug. 1) plus a 1-to-1 aide at $167 per day for the same period. These items were presented as individual-student services and were included in the block approval.

On personnel and policy matters the board approved a Teamsters salary schedule memorandum of understanding and adopted an organizational chart and a revised job description for 2025. The personnel committee report for Sept. 22 was approved and included multiple hires, resignations, status changes, leaves of absence, rescinded offers and a termination listed by school and position (e.g., long-term substitute teachers, special education assistants, janitor status changes, and other staffing items).

Financial and operational items were approved in a block covering educational programming and facilities-use agreements (Asbury Woods), a drainage easement agreement (with a minor change noted during committee review), exoneration of delinquent property taxes, the accounts payable report, student activity account officers for September, a grant labeled on the agenda as the Christina Sue Liza Grant, and several donations including gifts from Dollar General, a J.S. Wilson back-to-school-bash donation, and a Deakin lubricant donation. The board also took 7.03–7.05 as a block (student activity account officer signoff, bond summary reports, and financial reports for the general fund, capital projects and capital reserve fund as of June).

Dr. Kavanaugh, the superintendent, requested approval for one teacher to attend the Jumpstart National Educators Conference in Boston at a cost of $679 for airfare; the board approved that request so the teacher could purchase plane tickets within the timeline required. Several board members commented favorably on the district’s practice of sending staff to professional conferences and asked that returning presenters share materials districtwide.

Most motions were made and seconded from the dais and carried by voice vote. The meeting moved quickly through the consent and action items; when asked, board members voiced approval with “Aye.” Where an opposition prompt occurred on the record, the chair resolved the vote and the item was recorded as passed.

The board closed with routine reports and set the next regular meeting for Oct. 13, 2025.