{"id":198990,"date":"2026-05-21T16:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198990\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T16:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:42:14","slug":"emmaus-high-school-students-express-concerns-at-may-11-epsd-meeting-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198990\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmaus High School students express concerns at May 11 EPSD meeting \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published May 21. 2026 12:29PM<\/p>\n<p>Emmaus High School students took to the podium to express their concerns to East Penn School District directors at the May 11 meeting. ABOVE: Javier Ramos informs East Penn School District directors of the need for allocating funds for research databases to help students in preparing for classes.<\/p>\n<p>PRESS PHOTOS BY LISA DRAPERJeanne Chen appeals to the school directors to offer more world languages such as Mandarin Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>Carson Mosel addresses the school board about more opportunities for students who are identified as gifted at the May 11 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Avery Berger encourages directors to consider professional learning communities to give students in similar courses the same opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Krishna Nemani informs the school board about the isolation reportedly experienced by 50% of Emmaus High School students and the need for more advisory programs.<\/p>\n<p>Abigail Holtz addresses the school board about providing educational sessions on sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Hoenscheid appeals to the school board about mandatory community service.<\/p>\n<p>Danica Dela Cruz encourages the school board to increase awareness for female participation in STEM opportunities such as Project Lead The Way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published May 21. 2026 12:29PM Emmaus High School students took to the podium to express their concerns to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-198990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198990","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=198990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}