REGION 9 BOARD MEMBER APPOINTED

At the August 16, 2018 Meeting of the Board of School Directors, the Board held public interviews of two candidates to fill the position made vacant by Ms. Kyle McKessy's resignation. After undergoing a thorough interview process, the Board, absent of Dr. Michael Thorwart, voted in a 7-0 decision to appoint Ms. Kristin Marcell to fill the Region 9 Board seat...

NEW PARENT COMMUNICATION PLATFORM AND COMMUNITY E-NEWS

In an effort to streamline and improve our communication systems, we are transitioning to a new mass communication platform, Blackboard Communications, that will be launched this summer and fully utilized at the start of the 2018-2019 school year. The platform, which integrates with our current website system, will be used for district level and school-based parent robocalls and emails....

IMPORTANT IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION FOR PARENTS

The Pennsylvania Department of Health had revised the immunization requirements for students effective for the former 2017-2018 school-year (Subchapter C cited in 22 Pa. Code section 11.20, and 22 Pa. Code section 51.1) and remain in place for the upcoming 2018-2019 school-year. This revision replaced the eight-month provisional period for immunizations with a new requirement of a five-day provisional period for students who do not have records of immunizations at the start of the required school-year...

COUNCIL ROCK TEACHER WINS SCHOLARSHIP TO ATTEND SPACE ACROSS THE CURRICULUM EDUCATOR TRAINING

Congratulations to Council Rock teacher, Andrea Mangold, who is currently in Colorado Springs attending a three-day training at the Space Foundation Discovery Center as a recipient of the Dr. Rochelle Abrams Space Across the Curriculum Educator Training Scholarship...

COUNCIL ROCK RECEIVES $2 MILLION GRANT TO SUPPORT LEED GOLD CERTIFICATION FOR RHES RENOVATION/CONSTRUCTION PROJECT

Council Rock School District is pleased to announce that it was recently named an ACE Grant recipient. ACE, which stands for Alternative Clean Energy, is one of five funding programs released this week at the state level. As the only 2018 ACE grant recipient in Bucks County, Council Rock School District demonstrates its commitment to integrating proven energy efficiency features into its new buildings...