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Six of 12 school districts in Luzerne County increased property taxes for the new school year.

When opening a high school for the arts this fall, would the Hazleton Area School District also start teaching students to play stringed instruments?

Luzerne County school districts will see an 11.7% increase in state funding for basic and special education, according to allocations in the 2023-24 budget approved by the state House and

Editor,

Michael Pozzessere was hired as an assistant principal at Wyoming Valley West School District, a year after protestors called for his dismissal from a similar job at Hazleton Area Career

SUGARLOAF TWP. — A ping-pong ball that Evva Bueso released rolled down a track and then hit a snag.

HAZLE TWP. — A budget for 2023-24 that Hazleton Area School Board approved on Thursday raises taxes, but the increase is less than what the business manager recommended enacting a

A new analysis by Penn State’s Center for Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis shows the rate of teacher attrition in Pennsylvania grew faster in the 2022-23 school year and hit

Terry Dravage retired this month as an elementary school teacher after working 32 years for the Hanover Area School District.

HAZLE TWP. — As their final vote on a budget for 2023-24 approached, members of Hazleton Area School Board and school administrators considered how to trim a deficit of $6.3