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Success Starts Here
Bellefonte Area School District is regularly featured on a website supported by the Pennsylvania School Board Association. The Success Starts Here campaign is a multiyear statewide effort to promote public schools from around the commonwealth. Since the 2018-19 school year, BASD has been the most publicized district in the commonwealth, according to PSBA.
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Global education
Bellefonte Area School District has a commitment to global education by providing opportunities for staff and students to teach and learn curriculum that integrates multiple-dimension teaching into everyday lessons -- through the world language department with Chinese and Spanish taught to students as early as kindergarten, along with providing support for staff who want enhance their own professional learning on this matter.
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Health, safety and security
Health, safety and security at Bellefonte Area School District is of utmost importance. That's why the district takes into consideration many safety and security efforts that often reach beyond our schools, staff and students, and also provides the community with information about illness prevention, mental health and more. Through this, two anonymous reporting applications are also available -- Safe School Helpline and Safe2Say Something.
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Diversity, equity and inclusiveness
Bellefonte Area School District has a continuous goal to educate faculty, staff, students and the community on human differences -- and acceptance of those -- through diversity, equity and inclusiveness through efforts such as enhancing curriculum, creating a DEI committee and working with professionals who are experts in the mission. It's an initiative started under former Superintendent Michelle Saylor and is an ongoing effort.
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Title IX
According to Harvard University, Title IX is a federal civil rights law passed as part of the Education Amendments of 1972. It protects people from discrimination based on gender in educational programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance.
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Athletic highlights
Highlights from the Bellefonte Area School District athletic department. It includes quick-hit information including letter of intent signing, personal and team accomplishments, and more.
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Bellefonte eLearning Academy
Bellefonte Area School District offers cyber education for its students who may feel this form of alternative learning is a good fit for them. Different than cyber charter schools, the BeLA program – Bellefonte eLearning Academy, started in 2009 – means a student who goes through the virtual program is still a student of BASD and may participate in other Bellefonte Area-offered classes, clubs, athletics, fine arts and extracurricular activities provided by the district.
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Charter schools
A charter school is a school that is publically funded, but privately operated. Its funds largely come from taxpayer dollars paid to the resident’s home public school district that is responsible for the tuition of those students who live within the district’s boundaries and attend a charter school. According to the state Department of Education, all schools in Bellefonte Area School District have 100 percent highly-qualified teachers under the No Child Left Behind act. In Pennsylvania, Charter School Law requires only 75 percent of professional staff members of a charter school to hold appropriate Pennsylvania certification.
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COVID-19 pandemic information
The district has a COVID-19 pandemic information page about the novel coronavirus pandemic and how it impacts school. This site includes a timeline of important updates, a district Q&A with answers to frequently asked questions, community and families resources, health and wellness PSAs, and more.
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District Chain of Command
Sometimes, people are unsure who to contact at Bellefonte Area School District regarding a question or concern. To help assist those individuals, the following has been prepared based on department and building.
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Donations
The community is allowed to make donations to the school district for several services, which include student meal accounts, funding toward student at-home internet access and gifts for teachers.
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Elementary building project
As Bellefonte Area School District looks to the future and considers its elementary building plan, Hunt architects and engineers will conduct an initial needs assessment of the four buildings to help the school board and district better decide on the best final option for the project that could include a consolidation of schools, new structure, renovation of existing buildings or combination of options.
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Employee Spotlight
The Employee Spotlight features faculty and staff from Bellefonte Area School District. Organized by district Public Relations Director Brit Milazzo, in partnership with the human resources department, the goal is to promote the people who make the district. Each season, an employee from the district’s administration, professional staff and support staff are randomly chosen for the feature.
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Special Education
Special education at Bellefonte Area School District provides a compilation of services designed to meet needs of students who have disabilities. There are 13 disability categories that students can have – including a combination of those – and receive service based on their disability area to accommodate that while they’re in public school.
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#IAmDowntownBellefonte
Bellefonte Area School District annually partners with professor Renea Nichols from the Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State that sponsors a free summer digital storytelling workshop for students who work on communication and public relations projects that help them connect with the community.
