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Kiski Area counselors present three-year K–12 guidance plan, highlight staffing gaps
Summary
At an information meeting, district counselors reviewed the required three-year K–12 guidance (Chapter 339) plan, outlined career-readiness programs and partnerships, and flagged student-to-counselor caseloads while saying the plan will be submitted in March.
At an information meeting of the Kiski Area School District, high-school counselor Lindsay Smith and colleagues presented the district’s K–12 guidance plan, a state-required chapter 339 submission due in March. Smith said the department reviews the plan with administration regularly and makes targeted updates before filing.
The presentation emphasized student-to-counselor ratios and career-readiness programming. Smith noted the professional counseling standard is roughly 250 students per counselor and said the district has made "enormous strides" placing counselors in every…
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