Coal Cracker Kids Seeking Summer Participants
A youth-led news source in Schuylkill County is seeking summer participants to produce a newspaper and podcast.
Are you a young person with a story to share or a creative flair for photography? Coal Cracker Kids youth-led news is gearing up for a summer program to publish an edition of its popular newspaper and an associated podcast. Students from 8th through 12th grades from any school are invited to participate.
Advisor for the project will be Maggie Kergick, a 2015 graduate of North Schuylkill High School, who now teaches 8th grade English at Mahanoy Area School District. Kergick attended Lebanon Valley College to pursue a degree in English and Secondary Education. While in college, she was a Writing Mentor for fellow students, and studied abroad in Europe. She had previously taught at D.H.H. Lengel Middle School in Pottsville.
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.