Parents from the Laurel Valley School District discussed their hopes to consolidate with the United School District last night at United’s School Board meeting.

A group called Save our Rams Education, or SORE, from Laurel Valley came to the United School board last night and asked that the board consider their proposal to add the entire Laurel Valley Area to the United School District.  Laurel Valley is a part of the Ligonier Valley School District, and the Ligonier Valley board wants to close Laurel Valley and send its high school students to Ligonier.  According to SORE member Kevin McGlocklin, the benefits of sending students to United would far exceed the negatives. He said one benefit is that the commute to United School District from Laurel Valley is shorter than it is to Ligonier Valley.  

The Laurel Valley district has approximately 700 students.

The United school board has not yet discussed the issue.

In other news last night, Superintendent Dr. Blozowich talked about the snow day make up plan. United does not meet the requirements set in place by the state to waive those 6 snow days that need to be made up, requiring the district to use 3 built in make up days before the end of the year, as well as adding days onto their school calendar. This tentatively makes the last day of school for students to be June 7th.