Numbers
Number of Municipalities in the Perkiomen Valley School District
What are Six?
Planning, Setting Policy and Evaluating Results are the responsibility of this body of unpaid officials
What is a school board?
Term to describe a subdivision of a county in most Northeast and Midwest US States. It is a part of local government with varying governmental powers.
What is a Township?
Name the school district with 5500 students and 30 square miles in size.
What is Perkiomen Valley?
Breaking a tie in Borough Council and Cutting the Ribbon at a new business are the responsibilities of this person.
What is a small town mayor?
Length of Term for a Township Commissioner/Township Supervisor
What is four years?
School boards hire this person to run the district on a day to day basis.
Who is the Superintendent?
In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, this is smaller than a city and has a mayor and council.
What is a borough?
School boards get their power from the General Assembly in Harrisburg and this document.
What is the State Constitution?
Jim Kenney has this title in Philadelphia.
What is Mayor?
Length of term for a School Board Member
What is Four year?
PVs Superintendent is (Name the Person)
Who is Dr. Barbara Russell?
Phoenix, Boston, Scranton and Pittsburgh are examples of this type of municipality with a full time mayor and council
What is a city?
School boards organize during first week of this month after November.
What is December?
Buying Land and building new schools.Adopting new courses of study Establish the length of the school term. Buying textbooks. Hiring superintendents and hire necessary employees. Levying taxes are the responsibility of this group.
What is the school board?
Number of school board members on the PV School Board
What are Nine?
School boards organize during this month.
What is December?
City, township or borough that is self governing
What is a municipality?
Limerick Township, Worcester Township, Lower Frederick Township....Name the one in the Perkiomen Valley School District.
What is Lower Frederick?
School boards levy and collect these to raise money for the school district.
What are school taxes?
Number of days students attend school.
What are 180?
School board needs the permission of these two State Departments before building a new school. One is the Dept of Labor and Industry. Name the other.
What is the Department of Education?
Township Commissioners will hire this person to run the Township on a day to day basis
What is a Township Manager?
•37,677 residents in
•12,500 households
What is the average size per house hold?
What is three?
Smaller than a city. There are 958 of these self-governing municipalities. Trappe, Collegeville and Schwenksville are examples.
What are boroughs?