NORTHEAST REGIONAL NEWS
NORTHEAST REGIONAL NEWS
SPECIAL REPORT: Why the Allentown School District is continuously in a financial hole
Thomas Parker needed to come up with $10 million, and he was almost out of time. It was June, and Parker, superintendent of the Allentown School District, had already erased $18 million of a staggering $28 million budget deficit through a combination of cuts, a...
Real estate taxes rising in all but one Luzerne County school district
Eleven of Luzerne County’s 12 school districts have increased real estate taxes for the 2018-19 fiscal year, according to new county assessment office records. Northwest Area School District is the lone exception, with a tax rate remaining at 10.7452 mills. A mill is...
Address poverty’s impact on education outcomes
BY JILL MURRAY, Ph.D. / Published: July 1, 2018 A recent report was published on regional K-12 schools. High praise and celebration are certainly appropriate for the handful of districts that are clearly statewide leaders in academic performance. The article also...