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

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100. Comprehensive Planning (plans must be made available for inspection for 28 days)
105. Curriculum
108. Adoption of Textbooks
109. Resource Materials
113.4. Confidentiality of Special Education Student Information
115. Career and Technical Education
122. Extracurricular Activities
127. Assessment System
137.1. Extracurricular Participation by Home Education Students
137.2. Participation in Cocurricular Activities and Academic Courses by Home Education Students
137.3. Participation in Career and Technical Education Programs by Home Education Students
140.1. Extracurricular Participation by Charter/Cyber Charter Students
203.1. and 314.1. HIV Infection – Students and Employees
217. Graduation
218.2. Terroristic Threats
218.3. Discipline of Student Convicted/Adjudicated of Sexual Assault
220. Student Expression/Dissemination of Materials
227. Controlled Substances/Paraphernalia
233. Suspension and Expulsion
251. Students Experiencing Homelessness, Foster Care and Other Educational Instability
252. Dating Violence
302. Employment of Superintendent/Assistant Superintendent
309.1. Telework
332. Working Periods
333. Professional Development

335. Family and Medical Leaves
340. Responsibility for Student Welfare
351. Controlled Substance Abuse
610. Purchases Subject to Bid/Quotation
626. Federal Fiscal Compliance
718. Service Animals in Schools
801. Public Records
805.2. School Security Personnel
810. Transportation
810.1. School Bus Drivers and School Commercial Motor Vehicle Drivers
810.3. School Vehicle Drivers
815. Acceptable Use of Internet, Computers and Network Resources
815.1. Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Education
816. District Social Media
819. Suicide Awareness, Prevention and Response
827. Conflict of Interest
830. Security of Computerized Personal Information/Breach Notification
901. Public Relations Objectives
903. Public Comment in Board Meetings
916. Volunteers
Safe2Say Something Procedures (attached to Policy 805)

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

Retention and Destruction of Statewide Testing Materials
Retention and Destruction of Statewide testing materials, including PSSA and Keystone tests In accordance with 34 CFR § 300.624, please be advised of the following retention/destruction schedule for the Pennsylvania Alternate System of Assessment (PASA), Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA), and Keystone Exam related materials:
• PSSA, Keystone Exam, and PASA test booklets will be destroyed one year after student reports are delivered for the administration associated with the test booklets.
• PSSA and Keystone Exam answer booklets and PASA media recordings will be destroyed three years after completion of the assessment.
This amendment to the Annual Notice will be in effect at the start of the 2018-19 school year

PSSA/Keystone Testing Opt-out Information
Chapter 4 of Title 22 of the Pa. Code (22 Pa. code 4.4) provides for the right of any parent/guardian to excuse his/her child from the state assessment if, upon inspection of the testing materials, he/she finds the assessment to be in conflict with his/her religious beliefs. This is the only basis for a parent/guardian to excuse his or her child from the statewide assessments.

Procedure for parent/guardian to request that student be excused from the PSSA/Keystone Exam(s):
1. The parent/guardian needs to initiate contact with the school with a request for his/her student to be excused from the assessment(s).
2. Two weeks prior to the assessment(s), the principal will schedule an appointment for the parent/guardian to come in and view the exam(s). The parent/guardian must sign the Parent Confidentiality Agreement provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Education prior to viewing the exam. No written notes, video, or pictures can be taken of the material. The objection process is not complete until the parents view the exam(s) in the school. If the parent/guardian wants the student to be excused from several exams (i.e. ELA and Math), then the parent/guardian will need to view all of these exams.
3. The parent/guardian submits a written request to the school principal, with a copy to the Superintendent, stating a request to have his/her child opt out of the assessment due to a religious objection. The letter must list the specific name(s) of each assessment about which there is an objection.
4. A parent/guardian will need to make this request each year he/she wishes the student to be excused and he/she will need to view the exam(s) each year as well.
5. The principal will confirm with the parent/guardian that the child will be excuse
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