{"id":86885,"date":"2026-01-14T21:29:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/86885\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T21:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:29:06","slug":"erie-school-board-to-meet-wednesday-about-future-of-schools-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/86885\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie School Board to Meet Wednesday About Future of Schools | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Erie School Board will be having their monthly meeting on Wednesday night, one of the items on the agenda is starting the discussions about the board&#8217;s decision to combine high schools in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Rep. Roae Proposes Legislation to Eliminate School Board Conflict of Interest in Union Contracts\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"728\" height=\"409\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Almost ten years ago, the school board made the decision to combine high schools and middle schools and have one high school with Erie High. This was due to a number of reasons including finances.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, there are different school board members and a new superintendent, some school board members want to revisit the topic, especially with concerns about overcrowding.<\/p>\n<p>John Harkins, a long-time school board member explained, \u201cWe have a new superintendent and all those things coming together. Plus we are in the midst of our strategic plan development. I just thought it was good before the board went off in other different directions to just stop and take a look at what we did in 2017 and reaffirm that that&#8217;s the way we want to continue or if we want to take some other approach to configuring the logistics of where to put our students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The meeting is set for tonight at 6:00 p.m. at the School Board Administration building on Sassafras Street.<\/p>\n<p>Erie News Now will be there and bring you the latest out of the meeting, tonight on Erie News Now at 11:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Erie School Board will be having their monthly meeting on Wednesday night, one of the items on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,17057],"class_list":{"0":"post-86885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news","11":"tag-school-board"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86885","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=86885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}