WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. – Emotions ran high inside a packed Whitehall-Coplay school board meeting Monday night.<\/p>\n
To help the district get its finances in order, the superintendent proposed a reorganization plan that would cut jobs, including those of several math and science teachers.<\/p>\n
Dozens of people turned out to the education center for the meeting, where the motion failed \u2014 meaning those jobs are currently safe.<\/p>\n
“As a former alumna of Whitehall-Coplay School District, a former board member, and most importantly, a parent of two children in the district, I am deeply disappointed in your recent proposals,” one resident said.<\/p>\n
The board heard from nearly a dozen people about concerns over cuts to teaching positions, substitutes and support staff.<\/p>\n
“You’re going to put that on the teachers again, \u2018cause that’s where everything gets dumped \u2014 on the teachers,” another speaker said.<\/p>\n
The plan that would have eliminated nearly 30 jobs within the district failed to be passed by the board.<\/p>\n
The district is also seeking a 4.7% tax increase.<\/p>\n
People who spoke at the meeting say they hope the district can find a way to fix its finances that doesn’t involve cutting its staff at schools.<\/p>\n
The resolution will go back to the committee where the district will take another look at the plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. – Emotions ran high inside a packed Whitehall-Coplay school board meeting Monday night. To help…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,36170,4482,87134,30009,79735,16988,78997,19581],"class_list":["post-196321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-budget-cuts","tag-education-funding","tag-public-outcry","tag-school-board-meeting","tag-staff-cuts","tag-tax-increase","tag-teacher-layoffs","tag-whitehall-coplay-school-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196321","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=196321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}