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Residents urge stronger anti-bullying policies and question district spending at Whitehall-Coplay meeting
Summary
During public comment on May 19 several residents described alleged bullying incidents affecting special-education students, reported a bus with a broken window, and pressed the board for greater budget transparency and cuts to nonessential spending.
Multiple community members used the board’s public-participation period on May 19 to urge the Whitehall-Coplay Board of School Directors to strengthen bullying policies and to ask for more budget transparency and spending reductions.
Bullying and student safety: Kelly Owekwa told the board that her family’s experience shows current policies and procedures need updates and stronger enforcement. “These need to be things need to change,” she said, describing incidents in which she said a younger child with special needs was…
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