Parental Notifications & Forms

The following parental notification policies can be found on our Board Docs page. Please click "Policies" in the upper right hand corner to access the documents.

103_Nondiscrimination_in_School _and_Classroom_Practices
103_1_Nondiscrimination_Qualified_Students_with_Disabilities
144_Standards_For_Victims_of_Violent_Crimes
218_Student_Discipline
227_Controlled_Substances_Paraphernalia
235_Students_Rights_Survey
246_Student Wellness
251_Homeless_Students
808_Food_Services
815_Digital_Technology_and_Acceptable_Use
906_Public_Complaint

Student Privacy Protections

Phoenixville Area School District uses many valuable online tools to further curricular goals, personalize learning, and meet necessary data management and reporting functions. Some of these online tools are used by teachers in the delivery of instruction and require student account creation and storage of student work to perform their intended functions. Other agencies and companies provide certain administrative and technical services and support that either requires data be stored on their servers or access to our systems is granted to facilitate performance of certain defined functions. The District protects student privacy in compliance with applicable federal laws and school board policies. Federal privacy laws do allow sharing of what may constitute an educational record in limited circumstances. Click here or more information about student privacy protections. 
Any software service provider and contractor with whom the District contracts agrees to protect student privacy using all commercially reasonable means and complies with all federal laws prohibiting use of student information for commercial marketing purposes. Click here for more information about student protection from commercial marketing. 

Special Education, 504, and Gifted Record Destruction Notice Letter
The District maintains a variety of documents concerning students who are identified as having or who are thought to have a disability within the meaning of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - Section 504, and Gifted Education. To conserve space and avoid unnecessary storage costs, and to protect privacy, these documents are subject to destruction when the District deems them no longer relevant to the education of your child. This correspondence will provide you with information concerning when we consider certain documents to be no longer educationally relevant. Although the District might have documents of the sort described in this letter that pertain to your child, you should not assume that such documents exist or that they are “educational records.”

The point at which a document is no longer educationally relevant will depend on the type of document. The following types of documents will be considered no longer educationally relevant once read by the intended recipient, unless stored in a student file: (a) electronic communications between school staff; and (b) electronic communications sent to school staff by parents, guardians, and other third parties.

The following types of document will be considered no longer educationally relevant at the conclusion of the school year during which such document was created: (a) raw data and test protocols used in evaluations and reevaluations; (b) raw data, test protocols, and work samples used for progress monitoring, when those data and samples are thoroughly presented in progress reports or in IEP present educational levels; and (c) all other raw data, tests and quizzes, and student work. The following types of document will be considered no longer educationally relevant at the expiration of six years from the date on which the child is no longer receiving special education services from the District: (a) permissions to evaluate or reevaluate; (b) evaluation and reevaluation reports; (c) invitations to IEP team meetings; (d) IEPs and IEP revisions; and (e) notices of recommended educational placement or prior written notices.

Other types of documents will be determined no longer educationally relevant on a case by-case basis, and you will receive notice of such determination in writing at your last known address. If you have any questions concerning the foregoing information, please contact Kate Pacitto, Executive Director of Teaching & Learning and Pupil Services at 484-927-5046. The District student records policies, which contain important information about the maintenance, use, disclosure, amendment, and confidentiality of education records, is available on our District Website
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