Following the results of a recent survey of parents of fourth, fifth and sixth-grade students, fifth-graders will no longer ride on elementary school buses. Instead, the students--who are considered middle school students at Saucon Valley--will ride on buses with other middle school students.
Saucon Valley School District taxpayers who viewed the board's Tuesday meeting agenda and saw that a vote on an approximately $46 million proposed budget with a 0 mill tax increase was on it may be in for a surprise, if they didn't attend the meeting or watch it online.
After less than a year at the helm of Saucon Valley High School, principal Beth Guarriello appears headed back to Southern Lehigh High School--where she was formerly employed as an assistant principal--to take charge of that school.
The subject of hiring a school resource officer--a type of police officer--to help protect students in Saucon Valley schools came up at the Feb. 27 meeting of the Saucon Valley School Board. Share your view by voting in our poll.
A vote about whether the Saucon Valley School District should support a high school singing group's trip to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City in April became an emotional flashpoint Tuesday for some parents who said they're concerned about whether the school board is being as supportive of the arts as it is of athletics.
The Saucon Valley School Board’s 5-2 vote Tuesday gave the South Side Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance (LERTA) program, designed to stimulate the redevelopment of former Bethlehem Steel Corp. land, which includes 1,400 acres of brownfields, another five years.
A special meeting Thursday evening of the Saucon Valley School Board about an ABC News documentary under production about racial tension in schools was sometimes contentious, with a majority of parents in attendance asking board members to rescind a Location Release Form signed by former superintendent Monica McHale-Small. The form grants producers from the company's documentary division--Lincoln Square Productions--permission to film on the campus and spells out the terms under which that should take place.
Do you agree with Saucon Valley's Equity & Inclusion Committee? Or do you believe banning symbols--even potentially offensive symbols such as the Confederate flag--represents an infringement upon First Amendment rights?
A Saucon Valley School Board member called a revision to the school district's health and wellness policy that would limit the number of candy bar fundraiser sales that can be held in schools 'definite overreach' by the federal government.
In an effort to balance the district's 2017-2018 budget, Saucon Valley School Board members Tuesday discussed a budget proposal that would result in a 2.5 percent tax increase for district property owners; the first such increase in eight years.
