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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 East Penn School Board heard presentations about upcoming curriculum changes at its meeting Monday, including ability to earn college credit, along with new arts, tech, and math courses. -
During a committee meeting Monday, Whitehall-Coplay School District reviewed information regarding 2024's capital improvement plan, including roof repairs at the high school.
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Have you been following the news in the Lehigh Valley this week? Find out how many of these questions about happenings and news around the Lehigh Valley you can answer correctly.
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Shelly (Jacobs) Bartolacci is retiring as an Easton girls basketball coach three years after retiring from teaching. Her retirement marks the end of a 54-year association with the Easton Area School District as a student, teacher or coach.
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The classroom business Suds-abilities helps developmentally disabled students gain social and vocational skills in school.
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The school district is asking families whether they support adding metal detectors to the high schools.
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WLVR's Megan Frank talks with digital content producer Kat Dickey and managing producer Stephanie Sigafoos.
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Security officers searched multiple students Monday morning after finding them smoking in a bathroom during school hours, according to police.
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The Parkland School District acquired the property at 3599 Broadway, next to Cetronia Elementary. The former landowner had previously planned to put a drug and alcohol recovery house there.
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Parkland School District Superintendent Mark Madson recommended the district build additions to the high school to address its growing student population.
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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.”
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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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LehighValleyNews.com and PBS39 will host a community conversation on the future of Allentown School District tonight, bringing together stakeholders to address issues facing educators, students and public education.
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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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LCTI students were either evacuated from the building or sent back to home schools if en route
