Where Lehigh Valley high schools landed in this U.S. News ranking of Pa. schools
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Five public high schools in the Lehigh Valley cracked the top 100 in a state ranking released last week.
The rankings come from U.S. News & World Report, which ranked more than 17,800 public high schools throughout the country. (Private entities like Catholic schools were excluded.)
The idea is to measure how well schools serve students from various social and economic backgrounds, based on six criteria, according to the publication.
Warren County’s highest-ranking high school in New Jersey was Warren Hills Regional High School (200).
How 1 college course changed retiring Colonial Regional chief’s path into police work
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Colonial Regional Police Chief Roy Seiple is retiring after 44 years on the job with various departments.lehighvalleylive.com file photo
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An odd regret for a man who has regularly prepared and overseen a $4.2 million budget.
But it was his struggles in that course early in his time at Moravian College that convinced Roy Seiple, a West Easton kid who graduated in 1973 from Wilson Area High School, to change direction.
He gave up business and tried criminal justice.
Among his classmates? Former Allentown police chief and current Lehigh County Sheriff Joe Hanna. Long-time Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli was another Class of 1977 graduate of the soon-to-be Bethlehem university.
A Morning Call inquiry into the percentage of students failing two or more classes this fall compared with last found increases across the board, regardless of a school district’s instructional model.