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The goal of the Mercer County Schools is to promote excellence in a positive academic, social and extra-curricular environment which
emphasizes equity, diversity, safety and respect.

The Mercer County School District provides a diverse, challenging, and supportive academic curriculum for all students. Mercer County Schools strives to remove barriers to student learning by incorporating teaching strategies and materials which address the different learning styles reflected in the diversity of the community. Mercer County Schools continues its commitment to educational equity and the valuing of diversity by exposing all students to different cultures and by promoting positive interaction with diverse groups.

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The goal of the Mercer County Schools is to promote excellence in a positive academic, social and extra-curricular environment which
emphasizes equity, diversity, safety and respect.

The Mercer County School District provides a diverse, challenging, and supportive academic curriculum for all students. Mercer County Schools strives to remove barriers to student learning by incorporating teaching strategies and materials which address the different learning styles reflected in the diversity of the community. Mercer County Schools continues its commitment to educational equity and the valuing of diversity by exposing all students to different cultures and by promoting positive interaction with diverse groups.

A change in the way many school employees in Stark and six other counties get prescription medications has upset area pharmacists who complain that their business is now going out of state.

The new mail-order prescription plan stems from an amendment to union contracts that went into effect Aug. 1. It affects 6,700 Stark County teachers and nonteaching employees.

With cuts in state funding hurting many districts, the prescription change is aimed at saving money for school systems, its supporters say. Read more…

As South Bay students head back to school, they’ll encounter changes — larger classes, more vacation, fewer secretaries and janitors. But none is so immediately obvious, especially at the lower grades, as the war against germs.

From zero tolerance for fevers, to teaching kids to wash hands for the length of two rounds of “Happy Birthday,” educators are ramping up their fight against the swine flu this school year. The focus has shifted from closing entire schools to keeping ill kids at home. Read more…