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Courtesy/Tara MuthardNazareth High junior Brody Muthard will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a playground he created for autistic children at the Colonial Intermediate Unit 20 in Bethlehem. Muthard received intervention and therapies for autism at the I.U. as a child. -
Donna S. Fisher/For LehighValleyNews.comTwo area community colleges are expanding their dual enrollment programming, which enables high school students to better prepare for college and careers. The Pennsylvania Department of Education awarded $14 million in Dual Credit Innovation Grants to 15 public institutions of higher education to increase their programming.
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The Northampton County Suicide Prevention Task Force and Bangor Area School District will come together to screen a documentary about Emma Benoit, “My Ascension.” It tells the story of her survival and “how it propelled her on a mission to use her experience to help others find hope and stay alive.” -
Parkland High School will perform in Philadelphia's Thanksgiving Day Parade for the first time in the school's history. The parade is the oldest in the country, dating back to 1920.
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Newly-elected Lehigh Valley State Sen. Jarett Coleman has dropped a lawsuit he filed last year against the Parkland School District that sought to invalidate teacher pay raises. The trial over Sunshine Act breaches was scheduled to take place this week.
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The Board has approved a contract for the services of retired Judge Emil Giordano to conduct an unspecified investigation in the Bethlehem Area School District.
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Catchy music, bowties, dresses, and smiles light up the auditorium of William Allen High School for a Latin dance-off.
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The school has been locked down for four consecutive days. A statement posted on the LCTI website said state and federal authorities were investigating the reports, and false threats to the tipline would be prosecuted.
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Allentown School District Acting Superintendent Carol Birks joined the city's mayor, Matt Tuerk, for a conversation on issues facing the school district and plans for the future.
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Several anonymous tips on school threats over the past two weeks have been found false, according to the Allentown Police Department.
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A songwriting workshop at Broughal Middle School stems from a partnership between the Any Given Child program and Icehouse Tonight.
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Dieruff and Allen high schools and Trexler Middle School were locked down Monday after multiple unsubstantiated threats of mass violence were made to the district. Additional threats were made to Lehigh Career & Technical Institute, which also closed for the remainder of the day.
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Chief Financial Officer Diane Richards officially began her five-year contract on July 1, the school district said. She became the second department head to step down within a few weeks of starting.
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Former Allen High School Cheryl Clark was demoted to assistant principal last month.
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The event included choral and dance performances by teachers and students.
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Some Lehigh Valley school districts are seeing an increase in chronic absenteeism and truancy following the COVID-19 pandemic. And what was already an issue before COVID appears to have reached a level of urgency in some schools.
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The Allentown School District made school uniforms optional this year for the first time since 2013.
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Schools in the Lehigh Valley are about to start. Here's a roundup of the 17 school district's important dates and things to note.
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Bethlehem Area School District teachers hit the streets on the city's South Side to help students feel comfortable transitioning to a new school experience.
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A federal court judge is allowing the assistant principal who filed the civil rights lawsuit to amend his complaint. It stemmed from an altercation at a high school football game last fall.
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Last year, Bethlehem Area and Allentown school districts were waitlisted to get rebate funding through the Clean School Bus program. Another round of applications for this fiscal year is open until later this month.
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The Parkland School District now has two final options for how it will address projected overcrowding in its schools. A decision could come within the next two months.
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The school was designated with a state Targeted Support and Improvement designation due to lagging performance by its cohort of economically disadvantaged students. Officials laid out plans to improve the issues present.
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The new makerspace at Slatington Elementary School will help students learn STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) skills. It will primarily be used by an after school program called Schools & Homes In Education, or SHINE.
