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School board candidates press for transparency, student supports and caution on stadium spending
Summary
Candidates for the Shikolemi School Board at a Sunbury forum called for more transparency in agenda materials, stronger supports to reduce dropouts and questioned large stadium spending that ballooned from an original $5.2 million estimate to nearer $8–9 million.
School board candidates at a Sunbury forum criticized the district’s transparency, urged expanded student supports to reduce dropout rates and questioned recent stadium spending and proposed new athletic fields.
Simone Franklin, a school-board candidate, said the district must give teachers a stronger voice and provide them tools to prevent student dropouts. “In the year 2023, 2024 ... we had the thirteenth highest percentage of dropouts in the entire state of Pennsylvania. I believe that number was 44 students dropped out of our high school that school year,” Franklin said. She argued intervention should start as early…
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