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Courtesy/Southern Lehigh School District, Ethan Ake-LittleSouthern Lehigh school directors appointed Karen Trinkle as chief of schools. They also approved a settlement agreement with Ethan Ake-Little, the former HR director who filed discrimination and retaliation complaints against the former superintendent.
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File/LehighValleyNews.comEthan Ake-Little has been suspended with pay since June while the district investigated allegations about his job performance. Ake-Little previously filed discrimination, retaliation and fraud complaints against the former superintendent.
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Levinson was originally appointed to the East Penn School Board in September 2018 and was later elected to a full four-year term in 2019.
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Parkland School Board Vice President Marisa Ziegler announced her reelection campaign Tuesday.
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Take a look at stories throughout the week of which we are most proud, had a profound impact or that you might want to look at again.
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Christopher Schweikert, 27, of Coplay, who also is a teacher at Freedom High School, had a sexual relationship with the girl, whom he coached, according to Northampton County prosecutors.
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The board had two vacancies due to the resignations of now-State Sen. Nick Miller and former Director Charlie Thiel.
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The Allentown School Board will interview nine applicants to fill two board vacancies following the resignations of Board Director Charlie Thiel and state Sen. Nick Miller.
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Some worry that supports for families at the schools could be lost.
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Khalid Mumin, who has been superintendent of the Lower Merion School district in suburban Philadelphia for a little over a year, will be nominated for education secretary after Josh Shapiro is inaugurated on Jan. 17.
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The appeal involves potential open meetings violations.
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Workers and their dependents can now get up to $2,000 a year for tuition, room and board at any of the 10 Pennsylvania State System universities.
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Nearly 20% of Americans today are too young to remember firsthand the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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Tuesday was the start for Pennsylvania’s K through 12 masking mandate. The order was issued last week by Acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam, not Gov. Wolf. Sarah Anne Hughes, deputy editor for SpotlightPA, a nonpartisan investigative newsroom which has been covering these issues, recently joined us by phone to discuss the move by the Wolf administration.
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Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives is mulling a legislative challenge to the Wolf administration’s latest mask mandate for schools. A group of state senators, meanwhile, is readying a bill to change the state’s constitution to prevent those mandates.
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Whitehall-Coplay Superintendent Robert Steckel said they’re “staying the course” with their COVID-19 health and safety plan, but making adjustments for outside mandates such as the Wolf administration’s school masking requirement which went into effect on Sept. 7.
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A report from the center-left think tank Third Way shows several degrees at Cedar Crest College take 10-29 years for students to see a return on their educational investment.
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School districts across Pennsylvania are preparing to enforce a masking order handed down by Secretary of Health Dr. Alison Beam.
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Muhlenberg College is welcoming in-person students back to campus this week. But for some of the COVID-19-era sophomores, being back-to-school means they’re new to school.
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Pennsylvania officials on Tuesday announced a mask mandate for students and teachers in schools Pre-K to 12 and for licensed childcare providers.
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Masks will be required in all Pennsylvania public and private schools, as well as child care facilities, Gov. Tom Wolf was set to announce Tuesday, reversing course amid a statewide COVID-19 resurgence that is filling hospital beds just as students return to class.
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Three contenders for the next superintendent of the Allentown School District have been selected by the school board.
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It’s the first day of classes for Catholic school students in the Diocese of Allentown, and they’ll be wearing masks.
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A local infectious disease specialist says with COVID-19 case counts rising in the area, everyone should be putting on a mask.