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Seven candidates are looking to win nominations for State College Area School District Board of Directors in the 2021 primary election.`
Four positions, each with a four-year term, are up for election this year. Each candidate is cross-filed on the Democratic and Republican ballots for the primary. Up to four candidates will be nominated on each ballot to advance to the November election.
Just one incumbent, David Hutchinson, is seeking reelection.
StateCollege.com editor Geoff Rushton interviewed the candidates for C-NET. Videos of each of the interviews and brief candidate information appear below.
Candidates discussed why they are running, the biggest challenges facing the district, charter school funding and oversight reforms, inclusivity and equity, the district’s COVID-19 response, budgets, taxes and more.
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A Southmoreland, Pennsylvania School Board member sat through an entire two-hour board meeting while wearing a paper bag over her head. Dr. Catherine Fike was protesting the district s mask policy and a recently-passed motion allowing security to refuse to allow people inside district buildings without a mask or face-covering.
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SPRING TWP., Pa. â The Wilson School Board is clearly satisfied with the performance of its superintendent, as the board voted 9-0 Monday night to appoint Richard H. Faidley to another three-year term.
After accepting the resignation of Faidley as superintendent under his 2017 agreement, the board approved a new agreement to reappoint him, effective July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2023.
Faidley s base compensation will be $197,124.20. Beginning July 1, 2021, for each year of the agreement, he will be eligible for an adjustment to his salary, not to exceed 3% plus a discretionary merit increase as determined by the board.
Also beginning July 1, 2021, for each year of the agreement, the district shall make a contribution in the amount of $4,000 to the Arizona State Retirement System. Prior to his service in several school districts in Pennsylvania, Faidley was an administrator in three school districts in Arizona.