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During Monday's Bradford Area School Board meeting, superintendent Sandra Romanowski gave a presentation about the cut in education funding in this year’s state budget. She noted that funding for prisons has increased more than funding for education. "What are (the state's) priorities? Prisons or schools?" she asked. "If you look at many of the most vulnerable children that we have served in our community day in and day out, you will see that if nothing else is done and they don't receive good educations, and they don't receive ... the support systems that they need you will definitely have to increase your costs for prisons because those children -- many of them -- will end up there." As the state budget stands now, the Bradford Area School District would see a decrease of $670 per student. Port Allegany and Kane would see decreases of $850 and $845 per student, respectively, and Oswayo Valley would see a decrease of $717 per student. Also during th...

By ANNE HOLLIDAY WESB/WBRR News Director The Bradford Area School District is considering a whistleblower policy that would protect employees who report suspected improper actions by other employees. “The Whistleblower Law provides protection of employees against being discharged or discriminated against by reason of their filing good faith reports with an employer of suspected fraud, financial improprieties, irregularities, or conflicts of interest or cooperating in the investigation of such reports,” the policy states. The Director of Human Resources, currently Sam Johnson, would be the compliance officer. A complaint against the Director of Human Resources would go to the superintendent. The school board is expected to vote on the measure during its next meeting on August 9. Also Monday, the board approved on second consideration the budget for the 2010-11 school year, which, for the ninth straight year, includes no tax increase. In a meeting that lasted less than an hour, the board...