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Altoona Area SD meeting approves consent items, including plan to contract AEDY services
Summary
At a brief Altoona Area SD meeting, board members approved items 6a–f, including plans to contract alternative-education (AEDY) services with Nittany Learning and Associates; a final vote on a collective-bargaining agreement is scheduled for Aug. 4, 2025.
The Altoona Area SD board met in a short session and approved several consent items, including a plan to contract alternative-education services for disruptive youth with Nittany Learning and Associates, a speaker said.
Unidentified Speaker 3, during the meeting, said AEDY “stands for alternative education for disruptive youth” and explained the district’s rationale: the program is reviewed biannually and the district has decided contracting with an outside provider housed through the Holliesburg Area School District on a daily-rate basis would be more cost-effective than maintaining its own in‑district program or placing students in private placements. “So we will be engaging in an agreement with, Nittany Learning,” the speaker said.
The speaker noted operational constraints that affect placement: students in AEDY cannot be educated side-by-side with general‑education students, and the contract rate is expected to be lower than an equivalent private placement. The transcript does not specify the dollar amounts, the exact daily rate, or whether the contract is time-limited.
Unidentified Speaker 2 called a vote to approve items 6a through 6f under new business; the transcript records an affirmative response and the chair’s statement that the motion “carries,” but does not provide individual vote names or a numerical tally. The items approved in this vote included the AEDY contracting arrangement as described during the meeting.
Also during the session, Unidentified Speaker 2 told attendees the district’s collective-bargaining agreement is slated to cover Aug. 16, 2025, through Aug. 15, 2029, and that a final motion on that agreement will come before the board on Aug. 4, 2025. No substantive debate on the collective-bargaining agreement occurred during this brief meeting.
The meeting concluded after a motion to adjourn was seconded by Unidentified Speaker 3; the speaker thanked colleagues for attending the extra summer session and said the approved items will help operations and efficiencies ahead of the upcoming school year.
Next steps: the contract with Nittany Learning and Associates will proceed as approved administratively per the consent vote; the board will consider a final motion on the collective-bargaining agreement at its Aug. 4, 2025 meeting.
