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I 3J-2 Pittsburgh Press, March 14, 1979 Commencement Switched Fox Chapel Area Plans To Sell School In Sharpsburg it if state subsidies for falling below the 180-day standard. Several directors favored graduation June 3 and getting the extra class days from the spring recess, school picnic and in-service days. Superintendent James Burk recommended adding the days in June because "past experience has shown we have better attendance at the end of the school year, rather than using previously scheduled vacation days." The new calendar for seniors was ap- roved 5 to 4, with Nancy Edelman, ancy Succop, Louis Meyer and Raynor Sebulsky voting no. In another calendar switch, the other students will get three additional days -June 8, 11 and 12 to give them a total of 183. Final day for teachers is June 13.

Meyer and Sebulsky were against this change. When a woman wondered why the board was concerned about the three days even though they'll have reached the minimum 180, Burk responded: pa Preu Ptioto by Donah) J. Sleiiar "We don't expect minimum perfor mance from anyone. Yet, when we dis cuss the school calendar, people com near the new high school. It would have cost $7,300 to have the structures demolished and cleared away.

Now the district only has to pay removal costs. Firemen from Bauerstown, Cherry City, Elfinwild, Shaler Villa, Sharps Hill and Undercliff used the controlled fire for training. GOOD SAMARITANS Standing by while a building burns to the ground isn't standard procedure for firemen, but firefighters from six Shaler companies did just that Saturday. They saved Shaler Area School District money by burning two unoccupied houses on Anderson Road, plain and seem satisfied with minimum, Fox Chapel Area school board would have to agree its timing was bad. Directors Monday night "thanked" their Sharpsburg hosts by announcing the old Middle Street school will be sold this summer.

Bids will be opened in late June with the sale to be completed in September. The 60-year-old structure is used to store equipment for the district's environmental education program. The meeting was in Sharpsburg School, one of the few sessions held outside the high school in O'Hara. One of the 50 spectators who perked up at the news of the planned sale was Sharpsburg Mayor Marion Gerardi. He asked if Sharpsburg officials could be kept informed on bids received.

"I've been involved in a crusade in a similar situation," he said, referring to an apartment complex planned for North Canal and 13th streets. "If we know who is bidding for the school, we may be able to avoid a fight with someone later on." The school is in a residential zone. Solicitor J. Richard Lauver told Gerardi, "I will keep your solicitor (August Damian) informed as to what we are doing. This sale will be done through a sealed-bid process.

"The area is zoned residential, but there's nothing wrong with a prospective buyer trying to get the zoning changed before the sale or someone buying the school as is and taking his chances on a zoning change." Director Eugene Susi advised the mayor, "Once we sell the building, it's your problem as far as zoning." The board decided not to have the structure appraised unless there's trouble with the bids. "If we get a bid for $100,000, there won't be any need for an appraisal," Lauver said. "If the bid is $10,000, then something's wrong." For the third year in a row, graduation in the district will be later than expected. Commencement was postponed one week, to Sunday, June 10, to add four schooldays for seniors. Weather closed schools three times and a fourth day was lost to a power failure.

Seniors will attend classes and commencement practice June 4-8. The schedule change gives them 180 days of class, the minimum required by the state. It avoids a loss of $2,150 in 1979-80 The state just defines what is minimum 2nd Butler County Job School In Works We want students to go 184 days, if possible." Two years ago, graduation was delayed by an energy crisis, and last year it was a teacher strike and bus problems that pushed commencement near the end of June. The 1979-80 calendar was adopted Monday, with a couple changes from a tentative schedule okayed last month. Students will attend class Election Day, Nov.

6, and the final scheduled day is June 5. A teacher in-service day scheduled Nov. 6 was switched to Feb. 18, when school is closed for President's Day. School is to open Aug.

27. Holidavs are: Sept. 3, Labor Day; Nov. 22-23, Thanksgiving; Dec. 24-Jan.

1, Christmas-New Year's; Feb. 18, President's Day; March 31-April 4, spring vacation, and May 26, Memorial Day. Students will be off Jan. 18 and March 21 for teacher in-service days and May 21 for a picnic. The school year for new teachers opens Aug.

22, followed by two in-service days for the entire faculty. An in-service day June 6 will end the year. cept. If a student has a couple years of high school work in a certain area and wants to pursue a college degree in the field, we'd like to be able to accommodate him in grades 13 and 14 (freshman and sophomore years)." Dimitro Bourandas, superintendent of the Butler vo-tech project, views the consolidation as "one way to provide vo-tech, activities. "I don't think that what they're doing will be of the same quality as our vo-tech school, but it seems like a sincere effort to provide the best vo-tech arrangement they can with the funds available." The Butler school will offer 11 courses for 525 students this fall, then increase to 20 courses with space for 800 students in September 1980.

Jones emphasized that Moniteau, Slippery Rock and Karns City "aren't trying to compete or fight the other group. We just feel that going this route will do us more good." He won't be discouraged if negotiations bog down and the facility isn't open in September. "The object is not to get from here to there in one gigantic step. We want to go slowly and see what happens, That way, if there's a problem we don't anticipate, we can retreat if necessary." (Continued from page 1.) "But I expect the boards to approve a resolution soon promoting a vo-teeh committee," he added. "The resolution would appoint two board members, plus the superintendent, to a coordinating committee to gather more information.

"There has been a great deal of positive reaction from the boards about a vo-tech jointure, so things look good now." The superintendent admitted the distance to Butler Township and the class schedule proposed are reasons the northern districts are not part of the Butler Area-Southwest Butler-South Butler-Mars Area jointure. Karns City never joined the operating committee planning the school. Moniteau and Slippery Rock dropped out last summer. "We figured it would take about 95 minutes to get our students to the vo-tech school at the site proposed at the time," Jones said. "That meant some students would have been boarding a bus at 6:55 a.m.

for classes beginning at 8:30. Add an equal amount of time for the return trip, and there wouldn't be enough hours in the day to get in a full schedule of classes." A way to avoid the schedule conflict was suggested, Jones said, but it fell on deaf ears. "Instead of having students go every morning, we wanted them to attend the vo-tech school a full week ev ery other week. It would have meant less confusion in class schedules. But they have stuck with the morning schedule plan." The three districts cover the upper third of Butler County, with Moniteau in the middle, Slippery Rock to the west and Karns City to the east.

At last month's session it was suggested that only two buses would be needed, originating from Slippery Rock and Karns City. Holding classes in fully equipped vo-tech wings will keep expenses to a minimum, Jones said, "and that's the blessing of this arrangement. Each district has enough vo-tech courses that we could present a very complete school. "Besides, Karns City and Moniteau couldn't afford to get involved in an expensive trade school project with building programs of their own being considered." Vo-tech courses offered by the districts include agriculture, graphics, power mechanics, drafting, home economics and business education. A common school calendar and class times would be needed to make the jointure successful, Jones said, "but we are near that point already." Butler County Community College President Thomas Ten Hoeve has been a consultant in the early planning "to see how we can assist on the post-secondary level.

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