Canon-McMillan School Board
Date: Feb. 19
Action: The board voted to renew Superintendent Michael Daniels’ contract for five years. Board President Paul Scarmazzi thanked Daniels for his hard work. Director Joseph Zupancic said the average tenure of a superintendent in Pennsylvania is less than three years.
“I think it’s a real tribute to the confidence that the board has in Michael and how you’ve structured your team and are administrating our district,” Zupancic said. “A contract of five years, which is the maximum we can do by law, I think reinforces that.”
The board approved hiring a company to conduct surveys of the proposed entrance and exit points as part of plans for the new elementary school in Muse. The cost will not exceed $3,850.
First Street Elementary was recognized for collecting an all-time record of more than 3,800 items in its annual food drive on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. All items were donated to the Canonsburg Food Bank.
The following students were recognized for signing letters of intent to continue their athletic careers at Division I universities in the fall: Kyra Murphy, for women’s soccer at Duquesne University; Josh Kruczek, for men’s soccer at Lafayette University; and Alex Paulina, for football at the University of Pittsburgh.
Sixth-grade students Arya Pandit and Nathan Angott were recognized for winning the 2015 spelling bee and geography bee, respectively, at North Strabane Intermediate School.
A team of 10 students from Canonsburg Middle School ranked second out of 10 schools in the Math Counts competition at Washington & Jefferson College on Feb. 7. They have a chance of going on to the state competition as a wild-card selection.