{"id":12011,"date":"2025-10-23T02:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/12011\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T02:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:58:09","slug":"catasauqua-charter-school-website-announces-home-learning-due-to-teacher-shortage-potentially-linked-to-incident-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/12011\/","title":{"rendered":"Catasauqua charter school website announces home learning due to teacher shortage, potentially linked to incident | Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CATASAUQUA, Pa. &#8211; We&#8217;re learning more about a separate incident involving a student with a gun at a local school.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, police responded to Innovative Arts Academy in Catasauqua for a student who brought a gun into school.<\/p>\n<p>In a message to families,\u00a0 the school&#8217;s CEO said the gun was discovered when a vape sensor was activated, prompting an evacuation of students from a pep rally in the gym.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the staff seized the gun, then handed it over to officers.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, a message on the school&#8217;s website told students to learn from home because of a &#8220;teacher shortage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear if it&#8217;s related to Tuesday&#8217;s incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CATASAUQUA, Pa. &#8211; We&#8217;re learning more about a separate incident involving a student with a gun at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,8469,9166,112,8471,28,9167,9165,9168],"class_list":{"0":"post-12011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-catasauqua","12":"tag-catasauqua-high-school","13":"tag-ceo","14":"tag-innovative-arts-academy","15":"tag-pennsylvania","16":"tag-teacher","17":"tag-teacher-retention","18":"tag-west-catasauqua"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}