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The Clarion-Limestone Area School District is a small, rural, public school district which spans portions of two counties. In Clarion County, it serves the Borough of Strattanville and Clarion Township, Limestone Township and Millcreek Township. In Jefferson County it serves the Borough of Corsica and Union Township. The Clarion-Limestone Area School District encompasses approximately . According to 2000 federal census data, it serves a resident population of 7,173. In 2009, the District residents' per capita income was $17,013, while median family income was $38,633 per year. Per school district officials, in school year 2007-08 the Clarion-Limestone Area School District provided basic educational services to 1,045 pupils; employing 86 teachers, 33 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 5 administrators. In 2010, Clarion-Limestone Area School District employed: 86 teachers, 33 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 5 administrators. Clarion-Limestone Area School District operates two schools; Clarion-Limestone Jr/Sr High School (7th-12th) and Clarion-Limestone Elementary School (K-6th). The Clarion-Limestone Area School District received the honorable mention for 2011 Building Community through Rural Education Award from the Penn State University Center on Rural Education and Communities (CREC) and the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Reynolds School District Wins 2011 Rural Education Award )〕 All these statistics are vital and conducive to progress in the educational system of America. However, Clarion-Limestone offers more than numbers and faculty with decorated resumes. The solid light brown bricks of the elementary and high school fail to keep quiet about the many memories which happen within their comforting classrooms. The lessons taught here are not only educational, and they are not bound to teacher student interactions. Custodians, administrators, guest visitors, coaches, librarians, receptionists, bus drivers and many other persons who interact with the students show great enthusiasm for their care, protection, and happiness. For generations, children who grew up here can gladly speak of how they were taught how to behave, how to react, how to share, how to resolve conflict, how to find joy, how to make mistakes yet recover, how to find love within a world which struggles to see the power of love. Clarion-Limestone is a school with character, with integrity, with passion, with tears, with laughter, with heroines and heroes. ==Governance== Clarion-Limestone Area School District is governed by 9 individually elected board members (serve four-year terms), the Pennsylvania State Board of Education, the Pennsylvania Department of Education and the Pennsylvania General Assembly.〔Pennsylvania Public School Code Governance 2010〕 The district is divided into three regions. Three board members are elected from each region. Region 1 is Clarion Township. Region 2 is Limestone Township. Region 3 is Millcreek Township and Union Township. The federal government controls programs it funds like Title I funding for low-income children in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the No Child Left Behind Act, which mandates the district focus resources on student success in acquiring reading and math skills. The Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives Sunshine Review gave the school board and district administration a "F" for transparency based on a review of "What information can people find on their school district's website". It examined the school district's website for information regarding; taxes, the current budget, meetings, school board members names and terms, contracts, audits, public records information and more.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Pennsylvania Project )〕 Clarion-Limestone Area School District is part of the Riverview Intermediate Unit 6 region. The intermediate unit provides services to special education students. Occupational training is provided by the district and through the Clarion County Career Center. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clarion-Limestone Area School District」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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