School News

Public school superintendents, charter school leaders and lawmakers participated in a televised forum organized by LehighValleyNews.com.

Five incumbents are running on a record of high test scores and few tax hikes, while five challengers campaign on improvements for the district.

Thursday, a federal judge ordered parties in the Satanic Temple's ongoing suit of the Saucon Valley School District to address how a Vietnam-War-era Supreme Court decision affects their case. Their responses could be decisive.

The games at Liberty High were dedicated to a longtime supporter and announcer of the games, Rick Agretto, who celebrated his 40th anniversary Thursday.

Six ambulances were dispatched at 9:30 a.m. this morning to the school, which remained closed for the day

Art students from Liberty and Freedom high schools will be spending their Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons through the end of the school year bringing color to the Moravian Village retirement community.

Afterschool Satan Club is asking a federal court to be let back on campus.

Eight candidates are running for three seats in the Pen Argyl Area School Board. Three other openings on the board are uncontested.

East Penn School Board on Monday discussed adding special needs and support staff to the district in continued budget discussions.

The Bethlehem school was closed for two days after the wall on an exterior stairwell collapsed Monday.

A 49-unit housing project for ages 55+ and special needs residents called 1528 West was granted exemptions over parking and other zoning ordinances at the hearing board's Monday meeting over opposition from a local music school.

Freedom High School senior Jerry Rivera has been awarded a four-year scholarship to Princeton University by QuestBridge, a national nonprofit that connects high-achieving high school seniors from low-income backgrounds with leading colleges and universities. A celebration of the scholarship was held at the high school on Tuesday morning.

Chris Herren will speak to students during the school day then host a free presentation for families at 6:30 p.m. Thursday

The audit of a dozen districts released last week has drawn the ire of school business experts.

A new program hitting Pennsylvania high schools is just one of many ways the state is responding to a teacher shortage that’s created cascading staffing challenges across the Commonwealth.

Central Bucks South High School librarian Matt Pecic said a principal told him to take down four posters with a quote from Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel.

The changes were previously criticized by one board member as 'hippy-dippy, woke stuff.' On Thursday night, they passed unanimously.

Superintendent Joe Roy says no violation of law or regulation was found. But the Pennsylvania Auditor General's Office said the district had other options at its disposal rather than relying on taxpayers.

Easton has been struggling with a shortage of school bus drivers for at least the past few years. Students were getting to school late or getting home late, so the district purchased software last year to design bus routes instead of doing them by hand to find efficiencies.

District Business Administrator Robert Saul presented a draft preliminary 2023-24 budget that shows a $7 million increase in projected expenditures, primarily driven by wage, benefits and service cost increases.

Under the proposal, history would be taught in themes instead of chronologically. ASD Board Director Phoebe Harris called it "woke" and opposes the change.

Director Patrick Foose has recently clashed with other board directors and has been the lone dissenting vote on several issues related to transparency on the board.