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North Hills presentation outlines summer learning options; board moves to add fee approvals and handbooks to legislative agenda
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Dr. Beth Williams described elementary summer reading/math camps (free, invitation-only) and secondary credit recovery ($200 per course) and summer enrichment (typically $225). The board moved to add approvals for course fees, the 2026'27 handbooks and local donations to the legislative agenda.
Dr. Beth Williams briefed the committee April 9 on the North Hills School District's summer offerings and related materials that the board will consider at its legislative meeting.
Williams said elementary programs'including a summer reading and math camp and a camp kindergarten'are free and by invitation to students who need additional academic support. At the secondary level she described credit recovery courses available to students in grades 6'12, which she said have historically carried a $200 fee, and summer enrichment courses for grades 9'12 (health and PE) that she said typically cost $225. Williams told the board that financial assistance is available and that families should contact school principals, assistant principals or her office for help.
A board member asked whether financial assistance would cover students wanting to take the summer health and PE enrichment courses; Williams answered yes and reiterated that the district will work with families. Williams also described an end-of-year math task force survey for parents and seniors and upcoming meetings to analyze that data.
President Mathis moved to add items 3 through 6 under education to the legislative meeting agenda for formal consideration; Dee Spade seconded and the motion carried. Those items include formal approval requests for the summer credit recovery and enrichment course costs, the 2026'27 student/parent and staff handbooks, a $3,000 Barrel Subaru donation to Ross Elementary (to be split as $500 credits for six teachers via adoptaclassroom.org), and a $1,000 principal award for North Hills High School assistant principal Kevin Sheridan as recognized by the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Note on transcript discrepancy: Dr. Williams's presentation lists enrichment courses as $225; later in the meeting the chair's recitation misstated that figure as "$2.25." The article uses Dr. Williams's $225 figure as the program presenter's stated amount; the transcript contains the conflicting $2.25 figure in a later chair remark.
