South Allegheny leader details district realignment plans

By JEFF STITT
jstitt@yourmvi.com
South Allegheny school board this month unanimously voted to move ahead with “realignment of the current state of the school district.”
On Tuesday night, Superintendent Dr. Lisa Duval held an informative session at South Allegheny Elementary School to educate parents and taxpayers who live in Liberty, Lincoln, Port Vue and Glassport boroughs about what realignment means for the district.
While giving a PowerPoint presentation, which is now available to view on the district’s website, Duval and Lisa King, director of elementary education, explained that realigning the district will promote academic excellence, create a more fair, balanced and “equitable” learning environment and move toward ensuring financial security in the district’s budget.
Duval said the realignment plan will be implemented in the 2019-20 school year, but added that she has been working October with the current administration, the teachers, special educators, buildings, grounds and maintenance crews and committees, and several other groups of district benefactors to determine what “the concerns” of the district are. She said the point of her meetings and conversations with those groups and individuals was to “identify the barriers the district is facing,” and then find solutions to overcome those barriers.

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