TAYLOR - The Riverside School Board approved a resolution Monday opposing increased graduation requirements.
The move opposes requiring additional Keystone Exams, Superintendent David Woods explained.
"Each added exam they add is an additional cost to the school district," he said. "It's not necessarily going to make us any better."
At Monday's regularly scheduled monthly meeting, Mr. Woods said the current rate of students attending post-secondary school was 80 percent and the district had done well using existing tests.
"They're exams for accountability," he said of the added Keystones. "We've been accountable. It's simply going to cost the state more money and the district more money and time."
The Keystone Exam replaces the 11th-grade Pennsylvania System of School Assessment exam. Beginning with the class of 2017, students must pass those exams to graduate.
Also at the meeting, audience members asked where funding for three school resource officers was obtained. The board allocated $45,000 for the officers at a meeting last month.
"We had to get it from anywhere and everywhere," board President Robert Bennie said, explaining that it was taken from many areas of the budget.
Following the discussion, audience member Greg Lane volunteered a $5,000 yearly donation toward the SROs, for as long as he was able to do so.
In other business, Principal Paul Brennan reminded the audience that voting for the Pennsylvania River of the Year will close Friday. To vote for the Lackawanna River, visit lrca.org.
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