Primary election 2021: Dauphin County races to watch include CD schools, Harrisburg council
Updated May 13, 2021;
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This may be an off-year election, but in many parts of Dauphin County it’s off to a running start.
The ballot is packed with an array of candidates for county, municipal, school district and district judge offices for Tuesday’s primary election. The action doesn’t just center on Harrisburg, either, although the ballots for the mayoral, city council and school board races in the city are crammed to bursting.
While Rogette Harris, the chairwoman of the county Democratic Committee, and her GOP counterpart David Feidt are usually at odds in the political sense, they are in agreement on one thing.
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Teacher Jocelyn Rawls to run for Harrisburg City Council
Updated Mar 10, 2021;
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Jocelyn Rawls, 37, has announced her candidacy for city council in the May Primary.
Rawls said it was her desire to bring the community together and work as a team that inspired her to run for office.
“Although I was educated in the suburbs of Harrisburg, I have always had a connection to the city through playing basketball with Coach Cam at the North Sixth Street YMCA, working for the Parks and Recreation department’s summer program as a camp counselor, to being a first-grade teacher at Ben Franklin Elementary,” Rawls said. “I just want to give back to a community that has given so much to me.”
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.