No cooperative sports mergers in the works, A-C district says
While a group of parents in the Allegheny-Clarion Valley School District are concerned that the junior varsity and varsity girls basketball teams will become the latest to merge with neighboring Union School District, A-C Valley's superintendent said no such plans are in the works.
The A-C Valley district educates children in the northeastern corner of Butler County as well as those in parts of Venango, Clarion and Armstrong counties.
Mara Judd, of Parker Township, whose children are in youth sports programs that feed junior high and high school sports at A-C Valley, said she and about 25 other parents attended a school board meeting Monday to voice their displeasure with being kept out of discussions on the potential merger.
The districts merged their football teams for the 2016-17 school year and subsequently merged their golf, cross country and track and field teams.
The baseball and softball teams and marching bands were more recently merged, and play as the Union/A-C Valley Falcon Knights, as A-C Valley uses the Falcons nickname and Union uses the Knights.
David McDeavitt, A-C Valley superintendent, said there is no action before the school board at this time to merge any more sports teams.
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