Wilkes-Barre Area Board OKs 3 dozen teacher layoffs for consolidation

Wilkes-Barre Area Superintendent Brian Costello points to the direction the district’s new high school will face from the top of the Pagnotti site in Plains Township as work was getting underway in 2018. Conceding it was a painful move made doubly so amid a pandemic, the Wilkes-Barre Area School Board on Monday approved layoffs that could put more than three dozen teachers out of work as part of high school consolidation and a district-wide grade reconfiguration set to take place this fall.

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