Superintendent Dr. Keating told the board the Scranton School District is one of five recipients of a Pennsylvania Certified Teacher Registered Apprenticeship grant, a partnership with King’s College’s education department intended to help paraprofessionals and other staff with bachelor’s degrees earn teaching certificates.

Dr. Keating thanked Tim Wolf for his efforts securing the grant and noted the award is intended to help address the district’s teacher shortage by creating a pathway for existing staff (teacher aides, paraprofessionals) to obtain certification. He also reviewed testing windows for Algebra I (wave 1) and scheduled Literature and Biology for wave 2 in January; he reminded the board the winter recess runs Dec. 24–Jan. 2 and that school resumes Jan. 5 with the second quarter ending Jan. 22.

Dr. Keating described professional development efforts (Magma Math site visits and literacy workshops) and said the district will proceed to finalize secondary reading PD after winter recess. No formal board action was required on the grant announcement during the meeting; administration will follow up as needed with program implementation details.