{"id":325575,"date":"2026-11-11T15:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T15:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/325575\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T15:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T15:52:07","slug":"scranton-school-district-authorizes-eminent-domain-for-vacant-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/325575\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton School District Authorizes Eminent Domain for Vacant Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Facing an urgent shortage of classroom space, the Scranton School Board voted Monday to pursue the acquisition of the former Penn Foster building through eminent domain if a negotiated purchase cannot be reached.<\/p>\n<p>School directors voted 7-2 to authorize district leadership to acquire the property at 925 Oak St. in North Scranton for $2.2 million via legal condemnation. Under Pennsylvania School Code, districts are permitted to exercise eminent domain to convert private property for public educational use when negotiations stall. <\/p>\n<p>The decision allows district Solicitor Larry Moran Jr. to formally file a declaration of taking in the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas. Officials cited an immediate need for additional instructional facilities, noting that legal action would serve as a backstop should talks with the current property owner fail to produce an agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Facing an urgent shortage of classroom space, the Scranton School Board voted Monday to pursue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[4833,7510,23576,131894,178,180,179,40125],"class_list":["post-325575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-eminent-domain","tag-nepa","tag-overcrowding","tag-penn-and-foster","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-scranton-school-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325575","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=325575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}