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Hopewell Area School District approves curriculum updates, cyber curriculum pilot and $15 million resolution
Summary
At its Jan. 20, 2026 business meeting the Hopewell Area School District board approved senior- and junior-high curriculum guides for 2026–27, a three-year pilot contract with Subject Technologies Inc. for a cyber curriculum, routine finance and personnel items, and a resolution authorizing up to $15,000,000 in debt for remediation of New Horizon School.
The Hopewell Area School District Board of School Directors on Jan. 20 approved a set of curriculum updates, a three-year pilot contract to provide a cyber curriculum, routine financial and personnel items, and a resolution allowing the Beaver Valley Intermediate Unit No. 27 to incur debt for remediation and renovation at New Horizon School.
The board voted to adopt the senior-high and junior-high curriculum guides for the 2026–27 school year and approved a three-year pilot contract with Subject Technologies Inc. to provide the district’s cyber curriculum. A motion to approve the curriculum items and the contract was made, seconded, and recorded as passing by the meeting chair.
The meeting also included routine finance actions. The board approved payment of bills (items A–C) and ratified listed payments D; a roll-call-style affirmation was recorded and the motion carried. Personnel motions approved that night included the resignation of the varsity girls tennis coach (effective Jan. 5, 2026), hiring of a full-time bus driver contingent on receipt of clearances, a substitute custodian appointment effective Feb. 1, 2026, and volunteer substitute athletic trainers to serve as needed at no cost to the district.
In one of the meeting’s major actions, the board adopted Resolution 1-20-26 authorizing the Board of School Directors to permit the Beaver Valley Intermediate Unit No. 27, acting as operating agent of the New Horizon School, to incur debt in an amount not to exceed $15,000,000 for remediation and renovation of the New Horizon School building due to the presence of mold and asbestos. The resolution passed on an affirmative vote recorded during the meeting.
The board recorded motions as passing (transcript: “Motion passes”/“Motion carries”) for the items above. Specific vote tallies beyond roll-call affirmations were not listed in detail in the transcript; board members who verbally recorded affirmative responses during the votes included the members listed in roll-call exchanges (as captured in the transcript). The district did not detail in the meeting the exact financing mechanism or timetable for bonding or borrowing related to the New Horizon project.
The meeting concluded with announcements of upcoming meetings (work meeting Feb. 3, 2026; business meeting Feb. 17, 2026) and an adjournment.
Ending: The board took the formal votes described above; next procedural steps on the New Horizon remediation (bond sale, financing schedule or contractor procurement) were not specified during the meeting.
