Please send letters to the following people who are in favor of the school closures:
Gregg Sacco 932 Hastings Rd Marion Center, Pa 15759
Ron Oswald 2484 Grove Chapel Rd Indiana, Pa 15701
Chuck LaVan 978 Getty Rd Marion Center, Pa 15759
Sandy Gandolfi 412 E. Main Street Marion Center, PA 15759
Chuck Glasser 2475 Rayne Run Rd Marion Center, Pa 15759
Dan Fleming ( I am working on this - may be a PO Box in Ernest)
Administrators names and addresses are available at mcasd.net
Please send copies of any "letter to the editor", or just your thoughts and concerns to everyone listed above.
If you don't speak up, how will they know how you feel?

The Marion Center school board voted this evening to consolidate our buildings for the 2010-2011 school year. The high school will house grades 7-12 and the Pre-K thru 6 grade students will be split between the middle school building and Rayne. Their argument is that it will save $750,000 this year, however they could not say that we will see the savings on our taxes. Some of those savings may be needed to restore programs for the 5th and 6th graders that were being cut, but due to public outrage are now being possibly reinstated. They want to do this now, and then look at renovating or rebuilding AFTER more students have been moved into the buildings.
If you have any concerns about the difficulties this reconfiguration and the closing of our small community schools will cause for our children, please email us at
mcconcernedtaxpayers@gmail.com

School Board Meetings

The following school board meetings are scheduled:
Monday April 19th @ 7:00 pm and Monday April 26 @ 7:30 pm
The meetings are open to the public and will be held in the WA McCreery Library
The school board members were elected to represent the residents of this district and they need to know how we feel about the decisions they make. Please attend!

Information for MCASD residents

There are some good articles regarding school consolidations
on the following website www.ruraledu.org
Click on the consolidation link on the right side to read them online or get a pdf file.

VERY IMPORTANT MEETING:
Monday April 5th 7:00 pm
Creekside United Methodist Church
This may be our last chance to make our opinoins known to the school board before they decide to close our local community schools.
Please try to attend and bring anyone with you who has a stake in this crucial situation we are facing.