Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Inc.

“All public high schools, intermediate schools, junior high schools, and middle schools, which are accredited by the pennsylvania department of education, and all charter schools and private schools within pennsylvania, meeting membership requirements, are eligible for membership in piaa. Piaa member schools must sponsor at least one team.”

“The board of directors is comprised of: 1. One or more representatives from each of the 12 piaa districts. Each district is entitled to one representative for the first 50 member senior high schools or fraction thereof and additional members for each 50 additional member senior high schools or major fraction thereof. The current board had 18 members representing the 12 districts. 2. One member at large elected by and from the junior high/middle schools' representatives of the district committees. 3. Two representatives of the pennsylvania school boards association (psba). 4. A representative of the pennsylvania association of school administratiors (pasa). 5. A representative of the pennsylvania association of secondary school principals (passp). 7. A representative of the pennsylvania state athletic directors' association (psada). 8. A representative of the pennsylvania coaches' association (pca). 9. A female official elected by the female officials members of the district committees and a male official elected by the male officials members of the district committees. 10. Chairperson of the girls' athletics steering committee. 11. Chairperson of the private schools' steering committee. 12. A representative of the pennsylvania department of education (pde), appointed by the secretary of the department of education. 13. One female and one male representative, selected by and from the parents' advisory committee. See piaa constitution for additional requirements for above catagories of board members.”

“Amendments to the piaa constitution must be approved either by two-thirds of the schools voting or by a majority of the total membership.”

“The executive director and director of business affairs perform a detailed review of the form 990. A copy of the return is then provided to the board of directors for their review prior to filing.”

“Members of the board of directors are required to sign an annual statement regarding any conflicts of interest and are prohibited from voting on matters in which they have a conflict.”

“The human resources committee of the board makes compensation recommendations to the budget committtee of the board, who approves, adjusts or accepts the recommendations. Contract extensions are acted upon annually and in considering the compensation amounts, the committees involved consider amounts paid for comparable state high school associations' positions.”

“Piaa's constitution, bylaws, and conflict of interest policy and other policies are available on the organization's website in the resource handbook section.”

“There have been no changes from the prior year.”