Penncrest board approves Latin honors system and multiple personnel agreements; several routine items carried
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Summary
At the November meeting the board approved October minutes, multiple consent agendas, a Latin honors recognition system beginning with the class of 2026, a collective-bargaining agreement with the Penncrest Education Support Professionals (PSEA/NEA), an Act 93 administrator agreement, and two resolutions (America250 PA and a PSBA state-budget impasse resolution).
The Penncrest Board of School Directors approved a series of routine and policy items during its November session.
The board carried a motion to approve the October minutes and multiple consent-agenda items covering education and financial matters. The board approved a motion to implement a Latin honors recognition system to acknowledge student academic achievement "commencing with the class of 2026," with a provision that valedictorian and salutatorian titles would be restored for incoming freshmen once the new student-information system (SIS) is implemented.
On personnel matters the board approved a collective-bargaining agreement between the district and the Penncrest Education Support Professionals (PSEA/NEA) covering 07/01/2026–06/30/2030, pending solicitor review, and voted to approve an Act 93 administrator agreement effective 07/01/2026–06/30/2031 (also pending solicitor review). Those personnel items were recorded by roll call and carried.
The board also approved a resolution supporting America250 PA commemorations and approved a PSBA-endorsed resolution urging action on the state budget impasse; one board member voiced opposition to the PSBA resolution as "not aggressive enough," but the motion carried.
The meeting included financial updates: the district said it is drawing on reserves while the state budget is unresolved, but fund 51 (cafeteria) has revenue to replace four failed milk coolers and an anonymous donor will provide uniforms for the boys' basketball team.
Most items were routine votes; the board did not take votes on the facilities boiler project or the proposed girls soccer cooperative during this meeting and directed staff to return with more detailed proposals.