{"id":55422,"date":"2025-12-08T19:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/55422\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T19:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:24:14","slug":"allentown-middle-school-principal-placed-on-paid-leave-after-incident-acting-principal-appointed-allentown-area-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/55422\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown middle school principal placed on paid leave after incident, acting principal appointed | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; The principal of an Allentown middle school has been put on paid administrative leave after an incident in the city this weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a message sent to the school&#8217;s community, officials say that effective Saturday, Stephanie Williams, the principal of Harrison-Morton Middle School, has been placed on paid administrative leave for an indefinite period.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Executive Director of Instructional Leadership Arcelius Brickhouse will serve as acting principal until further notice, according to the district.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are confident that he will provide strong leadership and support to students, staff, and families in the interim,&#8221; the message states.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The District says it cannot elaborate on any further details about the incident that occurred this weekend because it&#8217;s a confidential personnel matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; The principal of an Allentown middle school has been put on paid administrative leave after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-55422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-allentown-area","13":"tag-schools"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55422","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=55422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}