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Which Pa. schools had the largest number of arrests in 2019-20?
Updated Feb 15, 2021;
The Pennsylvania Department of Education’s annual Safe Schools report for the 2019-20 school year showed a noticeable drop in reported arrests.
Districts are required to submit their misconduct reports, both criminal and academic infractions, to the state every year. Reporting sometimes changes from year-to-year, but no changes were made last school year.
Last year, the top three criminal reasons why students were in trouble statewide were:
Possession, use, or sale of tobacco or vaping 8.34 percent
Fighting 8.14 percent
Minor altercation 5.42 percent
Here’s a list of the schools that had the largest number of arrests, and the crime that was most common at each school.
Three Shawnee County teachers, Elissa Jones, Jennifer Womack and Kaitlin Gile, have been awarded their certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
Jones, Womack and Gile, who all earned the certification on their first try a difficult task to complete are three of 10 Kansas teachers who earned their certification.
Gile, who teaches in the Seaman School District, is a fourth-grade teacher at Northern Hills Elementary School. She earned her certification in literacy.
Jones, who teaches in the USD 501 school district, is an English teacher to speakers of other languages at Topeka West High School and received her certification in English as a new language.