The York Suburban Board of School Directors is moving its meeting location beginning with the Monday, January 13, 2014 meeting.

The new meeting location will be in the Valley View Elementary School Staff Development Room.  Entrance to the building for school board meetings will be through the bus entrance doors on the side of the school facing the Ronald H. Provard Education Center building.

All planning committee meetings and regular monthly meetings will take place in the new location, which provides more seating for residents and visitors attending meetings.

John H. Posenau of Spring Garden Township has been selected by the York Suburban Board of School Directors to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of William Kirk.

A resident of the school district for the past 17 years, Mr. Posenau is Director of Business and Technology Services at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.   He holds a B.A. degree in mathematics, with a concentration in computer science, from Christopher Newport University and his master’s degree in computer science from William and Mary College.

The father of two York Suburban High School graduates, he was a member of the York Suburban Technology Subcommittee of the Comprehensive Plan Committee.

A total of 13 district residents applied for the two-year school board position and eight were interviewed during a public meeting on December 9.  Mr. Posenau was selected and sworn into office at that meeting.

The Pennsylvania Department of Economic Development has renewed the York Suburban Education Foundation (YSEF) status as an Education Improvement Organization (EIO).

What does this mean?

A business interested in making a donation to the York Suburban Education Foundation may receive a tax credit equal to 75 percent of its contribution to the YSEF.  The tax credit may be increased to 90 percent of the contribution if the business agrees to provide the same amount of the contribution to the YSEF for two consecutive years.

If a business is interested in learning more about EITC contributions, contact the YSEF office at 717-885-1122 or send an e-mail to info@ysef.org.

FALL CAMPAIGN UNDER WAY:  The YSEF Fall Campaign has started.  If you’ve received a letter from a YSEF Board Member, please consider a donation today.

With your support, the YSEF is able to provide a venue to support value-added academic experiences through grants to York Suburban teachers and staff.  For York Suburban staff members, the grant process has also started.  Do you have a project or program that is innovative and wouldn’t normally be funded through the school budget? Those are the types of grants the YSEF is interested in funding! Check out www.ysef.org for the grant guidelines and application.  The deadline to submit a grant is February 1.

 ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 5th GRADER?:  On Saturday, January 25, the YSEF is going to find out if members from a York Community Team, an Education Team, a High School Honor Society Student Team and an Alumni Team are smarter than a team of York Suburban 5^th graders.

The event will begin at 2 p.m. at the York Suburban Middle School.  If you are a 5^th grade student and would like to compete on the 5^th grade team or help in other ways during the event, look for a sign-up sheet to come home in December.    For more information on the “Are You Smarter Than A 5^th Grader?” event, visit the YSEF website, www.ysef.org.

York Suburban High School will host a Mini-THON this year.

The students will donate all of the money raised to the 4 Diamonds Fund, which is the same organization for which the Penn State THON raises money.

The York Suburban  Mini-THON is scheduled for February 28.

The students will be dancing the night away on the high school campus.  However  –teacher Oliver Good notes — dancing will not be the only activity happening at the all-night event.  There will also be tournaments, contests, games, music, singing, testimonies, and charity work that night!

With a goal of raising $10,000, there will be several fund raising events leading up to the Mini-THON.

York Suburban Middle School held the first of a series of  Spirit Assemblies in October.

Dressed in orange and black, the students entered the gymnasium to sounds of the York Suburban Middle School Band.

Also in the audience on this day was Deb Young, a teacher who retired last year and long known as the “Spirit Queen” at YSMS. During the assembly all the fall sports teams were introduced.