The president of the Scranton School District school board was more than miffed with a recent message from the Hettinger School District.
Mike Mellmer may have only a few weeks left on his term as president of the Scranton School Board, but he was upset with some changes made by the Hettinger School Boardâs co-op committee.
The message from Hettinger also dropped a June deadline to sign or see the co-op contract dissolved.
âMy impression is they donât want this co-op anymore.â
As Mellmer told the people at the school board meeting Thursday (May 20), it is more like an ultimatum.
Lackawanna County Courthouse
SCRANTON – Six school administrators in Lackawanna County are bringing legal action against the Scranton School District and its Board of School Directors, claiming that the defendants voted upon a new administrator compensation plan without meeting with them to seek their input.
Michael Montoro, John Coyle, Albert O’Donnell, Robert DeLuca, Dan Gilroy and Anne Genett collectively filed a complaint sounding in mandamus in the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas on April 27 versus the Scranton School District and the Board of School Directors of the Scranton School District.
Plaintiff Montoro, Vice-Principal of Scranton High School, also served as the President of the District’s Act 93 negotiation committee for the supervisory unit for all School Administrators of the District, for the purpose of meeting with the defendant Board of School Directors of the Scranton School District (which has nine members), to discuss the
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Pennsylvania classroom with in-person instruction (Credit: Conestoga Valley School District Facebook page)
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