Wilkes-Barre Area votes to furlough up to 37 teachers
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Wilkes-Barre Area votes to furlough up to 37 teachers
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Gov. Tom Wolf is proposing to add more than $1.3 billion in basic-education funding and wants to use the stateâs fair-funding formula to distribute all basic-education funds to school districts.
Wolf said Tuesday his proposal would âensure students in every community have the funding to succeedâ and would be funded by a personal income tax increase to 4.49%, up from 3.07%. The administration claims expanding exemptions would allow two-thirds of income taxpayers would pay less or the same.
The Republican-controlled Legislature would have to approve Wolfâs education proposal, and opposition is already mounting. Rep. Tarah Toohil, R-116, Butler Twp., noted the Legislature last year âkept our commitment to funding education without raising taxesâ in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Wilkes-Barre Area School Board on Monday agreed to sell the Coughlin High School property for $1.65 million.
City Mills LLC of Brooklyn, N.Y., is the buyer and plans to renovate the school building in downtown Wilkes-Barre for mixed residential and commercial uses, Solicitor Raymond Wendolowski said during a virtual board meeting. The sale is contingent on getting zoning approval and is not contingent on the company obtaining financing, Wendolowski said.
Mendy Ginsberg is the developer affiliated with City Mills LLC, Wendolowski said. Ginsberg successfully converted five floors of the 14-story Citizens Bank building on West Market Street in downtown Wilkes-Barre into higher-end apartments.