{"id":307688,"date":"2026-10-16T04:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T04:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307688\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T04:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T04:14:08","slug":"asd-elementary-school-principal-placed-on-administrative-leave-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307688\/","title":{"rendered":"ASD elementary school principal placed on administrative leave | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2013 An elementary school principal in the Allentown School District has been placed on leave, the district confirmed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Daria Custer, principal of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jef.allentownsd.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jefferson Elementary School<\/a> in South Allentown, has been placed on administrative leave. Families were notified on Wednesday, the district said.<\/p>\n<p>Since it\u2019s a personnel matter, the district said it would not provide any further comment.<\/p>\n<p>Custer was the 2024-25 Allentown School District Administrator of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>According to her principal\u2019s message on the school website, Custer has worked for ASD since 1998, holding a variety of roles including teacher, assistant principal and elementary principal. She has been principal at Jefferson since July 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Custer is a graduate of ASD\u2019s William Allen High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2013 An elementary school principal in the Allentown School District has been placed on leave, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[52580,119,121,120,719,126183,15042,10022],"class_list":["post-307688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-administrative-leave","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-school-district","tag-daria-custer","tag-jefferson-elementary-school","tag-principal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307688","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=307688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}