Starting the School Year 2019 continued
regarding this matter, please contact your building
principal or the superintendent.
Health Precautions
GSSD has developed contingency plans to proactively
deal with any influenza outbreak or other medical threat.
The district continually works not only with the PA
Department of Education, but also with the PA Emergency
Management Agency and the Centers for Disease Control
to keep current on all information and to gain knowledge
on applicable procedures and guidelines. Our plans focus
on proactively educating all students and parents on
prevention and mitigation measures, and monitoring
the situation with respect to illness. This happens in all
of our buildings in order to limit the impact of medical
threats on our students and staff, enabling us to meet our
primary goal of keeping our schools open and serving
students.
Asbestos Inspections
Inspections of known asbestos-containing materials
are conducted by school district maintenance personnel
every month. The results of the inspections and any
response actions are incorporated into the district’s
Operations & Maintenance Plan and the reports become
a part of the regular monthly meetings of the Greensburg
Salem Board of School Directors. The district’s Asbestos
Operations & Maintenance Plan is available for review
in the Greensburg Salem School District’s administration
office. Any questions concerning the district’s Asbestos
Program should be directed to the Coordinator of
Institutional Facilities, Maintenance, and Grounds,
Greensburg Salem School District, 724.832.2910.
Delay/Closing of Schools Due to
Weather
In the event that weather or other emergency
conditions are such that the normal school schedule will
be changed or school will be cancelled for the day, the
district will attempt to make this decision between 5:30
a.m. and 6:30 a.m. This information will then be posted
on the district website and social media, as well as be
announced via KDKA Radio (1020 AM), KDKA-TV (Channel
2), WTAE-TV (Channel 4), and WPXI-TV (Channel 11).
Should conditions warrant an early dismissal, the district
will take steps to inform parents/guardians and to ensure
that all students can be safely dismissed.
All parents will receive automatic notifications to the
primary household number designated in their child’s
school records. Parents and students who have previously
signed up for Mobile Text/Phone e-Alerts will continue
to receive those notifications. Remember that while
e-Alerts are available for your convenience, they are not a
substitute for conventional notifications through the local
news media.
Access to Student
Information…
Release of “Directory Information”
As part of the requirements of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965 as amended (§9528),
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Greensburg Salem is required to release the names,
addresses and telephone numbers (generally referred
to as “directory information”) of students to military
recruiters and to an institution of higher education.
Military recruiters and education institutions generally
request directory information for members of the junior
class. Parents, however, have the right to request that
their son’s or daughter’s directory information or a specific
part of it not be released. Parents who wish to exercise
this option should do so in writing and mail the request
to the high school principal at Greensburg Salem High
School, 65 Mennel Drive, Greensburg, PA 15601.
Greensburg Salem maintains the security of student
information and releases specific information only as
required by law. Any parent can request that information
be withheld by making this request in writing to the
principal of each building in which his/her children
are enrolled. The district will honor these requests as
permitted by commonwealth and federal statute.
Student Record Information
The collection, maintenance, and dissemination of
pupil records are legitimate and expected functions of
a school system. The professional staff recognizes the
confidential nature of such data and the need to strike
a balance between the necessity for educationally
relevant information about children and the protection of
individual rights to privacy.
The Greensburg Salem School Board and staff believe
that student files should contain only information of
value in assisting students. In addition to academic
records, student files often contain data from personality,
psychological and intelligence tests; health records;
reports from school psychologists and guidance
counselors; and anecdotal records and evaluations by
teachers and administrators.
Certain information gathered on students in the
Greensburg Salem School District will be designated as
“Directory Type Information.” This includes the following
information relating to a student: the student’s name,
address, telephone number, date and place of birth,
major field of study, participation in officially recognized
activities and sports, weight and height of members of
athletic teams, dates of attendance, degrees and awards
received, the most recent previous educational agency
or institution attended by the student, and other similar
information.
The above information is primarily used in publicizing
public school functions and student achievements in the
local media, for example, student participation, sports
programs, band rosters, and so forth.
You have the right, as a parent, guardian or eligible
student, to refuse to permit the school district to
designate any or all of the above categories of personally
identifiable information with respect to the “Directory
Type Information.”
In addition, the Greensburg Salem School District
will release, upon request of a parent or another school,
without notice to parents, records of a student who is
entering another elementary or secondary school. If
the school district fails to comply with the request of the
parent or eligible student to review records, that parent
or eligible student may file a complaint with the Office
of Health, Education and Welfare in Washington D.C.,
and/or request a hearing as specified in the “Challenge
Procedure” section of the Policy on the Collection,
Maintenance, and Dissemination of Records. The Policy
on the Collection, Maintenance, and Dissemination of
Records is available through the principal’s office.
If English is not understood, the school district will
notify parents of their rights in the language used at
home.
PrimeroEdge School Nutrition Software
Students in all district schools use the PrimeroEdge
School Nutrition software for lunch and breakfast
purchases. PrimeroEdge is a computerized accounting
system, which can eliminate the need for parents to send
money to school with their son or daughter on a daily
basis to pay for food or drinks purchased in any of the
district’s cafeterias.
Every student is assigned an account that can
be accessed only by his or her student PIN (Personal
Identification Number). Once given to a student, the
PIN remains the same from year to year. When making
a purchase at the cafeteria, the student enters his/her
PIN and if there is money in the account, the price of the
purchase, including ala carte items, is deducted from the
account balance.
Students with no funds in their account will not be
permitted to charge ala carte items to their account. The
district may impose charge limits for individuals who
fail to keep their account current. Funds in the student’s
account can only be used for cafeteria purchases. The
PrimeroEdge system will automatically recognize the
students who meet eligibility requirements for free or
reduced meals and make appropriate deductions.
Students/parents can place money into individual
accounts by sending a check (made payable to the
Greensburg Salem Cafeteria Fund) to school. In addition,
families now have the opportunity to use SchoolCafe.com
or the SchoolCafe app, a service that offers a review of a
child’s cafeteria purchases, as well as allows prepayment
to the cafeteria account using a credit or debit card.
Accounts on SchoolCafe can be created free-of-charge,
without providing credit card information, to give any
parent the ability to review student cafeteria purchases.
Families are not required to make deposits into their
child’s account using the SchoolCafe.com service. Parents
who would like the convenience of paying online can
do so with a minimum of $20.00 payment subtotal,
excluding the 5% service fee charged for each payment.
Greensburg Salem School District does not receive any of
the service fees charged by SchoolCafe on all online food
service payments.
More information about the PrimeroEdge School
Nutrition program will be provided to students and
parents at the beginning of the school year. If at any
time you have questions about PrimeroEdge or any
aspects of our food service program, please feel free to
call your child’s school or the Food Service Director at
724.832.2990.