{"id":298612,"date":"2026-10-02T21:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T21:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298612\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T21:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T21:13:11","slug":"court-orders-whitehall-coplay-sd-to-resume-district-busing-for-charter-students-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298612\/","title":{"rendered":"Court orders Whitehall-Coplay SD to resume district busing for charter students | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. &#8212; A Pennsylvania court has ordered the Whitehall-Coplay School District to resume bus service for charter students.<\/p>\n<p>The order, issued Thursday, said the district must reinstate district transportation for charter school students no later than Monday, Oct. 5.<\/p>\n<p>District Superintendent Christopher Schiffert told 69 News that district busing for charter students will resume on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>             <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/lehighvalley\/lehigh-county\/allentown-area\/would-you-put-your-kid-on-a-public-bus-at-12-charter-schools-parents-sue\/article_a37d3852-0c0b-45a0-b5bc-e79146c326e4.html\" class=\"tnt-asset-link\" aria-label=\"&#x2018;Would you put your kid on a public bus at 12?&#x2019;: Charter schools, parents sue Whitehall-Coplay over end of bus service\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>            \u2018Would you put your kid on a public bus at 12?\u2019: Charter schools, parents sue Whitehall-Coplay over end of bus service<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Six charter schools sued the district after it stopped busing kids 12 and up in those schools as a cost-saving measure. Instead, the district said those kids can either switch to a public school or take LANTA public transportation.<\/p>\n<p>The suit argued the new policy violated the Equal Protection and Education Clauses of the Pennsylvania Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Court hearings on the case were held in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>             <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/lehighvalley\/lehigh-county\/allentown-area\/whitehall-coplay-busing-lawsuit-heads-to-court-as-judge-hears-arguments\/article_ce41c50e-207e-450d-bc5a-11c4aa9a72fa.html\" class=\"tnt-asset-link\" aria-label=\"Whitehall-Coplay busing lawsuit heads to court as judge hears arguments\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>            Whitehall-Coplay busing lawsuit heads to court as judge hears arguments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. &#8212; A Pennsylvania court has ordered the Whitehall-Coplay School District to resume bus service for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,233],"class_list":["post-298612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298612","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=298612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}