Voters in the Saucon Valley and Southern Lehigh school districts couldn't have been much clearer in terms of how they cast their votes in Tuesday's election, with more progressive candidates largely failing to win or retain seats in the districts' hotly-contested school board races.
Saucon Valley School District residents who wanted to learn more about the individuals running for school board were able to hear some of them answer questions and highlight their qualifications at a Northampton Community College-sponsored forum Monday.
Saucon Source invited the seven candidates running for four seats on the Saucon Valley School Board to each share a statement about why they are seeking election to the board and what they hope to accomplish if elected to it.
In an escalating war of words involving Saucon Valley School Board president Shamim Pakzad, the Bethlehem Area School Board and BASD superintendent Joseph Roy, the Bethlehem school board has made the latest move.
School board president Shamim Pakzad said he was responding to a recent remark by Bethlehem Area School District superintendent Joseph Roy, in which Roy said racism and classism are motivating decisions by some local parents to enroll their children in charter schools.
Saucon Valley School District will have a new assistant superintendent, after the school board Tuesday approved hiring Dr. Kristine Rosenberger to take over that role, effective upon her release from her current employer.
The Saucon Valley School District has a reputation for having relatively high property taxes, but is it deserved? Analysis of the district's millage rate--both currently and what is proposed for 2018-2019--utilizing 2018Â county statistics tells a more complex story.
One incumbent and three newcomers triumphed in both the Democratic and Republican Saucon Valley School Board primary elections Tuesday, on a day when overall voter turnout was reportedly low throughout Saucon Valley and Northampton County as a whole.
A forum for the Saucon Valley School Board candidates running in the May 16 primary election was sponsored by Saucon Source and held Friday night, March 31.
This story contains links to individual statements submitted by seven of the eight Saucon Valley School Board candidates.
