{"id":217439,"date":"2026-06-12T13:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217439\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T13:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:59:10","slug":"parklands-coffee-with-the-superintendent-offers-residents-chance-to-chat-with-the-superintendent-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217439\/","title":{"rendered":"Parkland\u2019s \u2018Coffee with the Superintendent\u2019 offers residents chance to chat with the superintendent \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published June 12. 2026 09:32AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Dr. Mark Madson, superintendent of the Parkland School District held another \u201cCoffee with the Superintendent,\u201d May 8 at the Hometown Diner, Breinigsville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">These events allow residents to question the superintendent on anything regarding the Parkland School District\u2019s plans for the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">This would include programs such as the expansion at the high school, the status of the Troxel Middle School building and other school district owned property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">It also allows residents with concerns about school taxes to understand how the school taxes are used.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Dr. Madson graciously answered all queries and provided much needed support in detail for those inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>PRESS PHOTOS BY LOU WHEELANDParkland School District Superintendent Dr. Mark Madson and Upper Macungie resident Mert Kunduraciogly, met during \u201cCoffee with the Superintendent\u201d May 8 at the Hometown Diner, Breinigsville.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mark Madson, superintendent, Parkland School District chats with Lower Macungie resident Rachel Cuevas during \u201cCoffee with the Superintendent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baskaran Mani, Upper Macungie met Parkland School Board member Jon MacKlin during \u201cCoffee with the Superintendent\u201d May 8 at the Hometown Diner, Breinigsville.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Bush, Upper Macungie, chats with Parkland Superintendent Dr. Mark Madson during \u201cCoffee with the Superintendent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PRESS PHOTO BY LOU WHEELANDRabbi Moshe Kurtz, Allentown, and Parkland Superintendent Dr. Mark Madson meet at \u201cCoffee with the Superintendent.\u201d Story and additional photos appear on Page A11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published June 12. 2026 09:32AM Dr. Mark Madson, superintendent of the Parkland School District held another \u201cCoffee with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-217439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217439","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=217439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}