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Saturday, March 2, 2013

Wilson Rejects Proposed Charter School

The Wilson Area School Board said it wasn't convinced that a charter school had community support.

The Wilson Area School Board has rejected a business-themed charter school that had wanted to open up in West Easton Board members said they weren't convinced the Business and Entrepreneurship Academy Charter High School had enough support from the community, parents, and educators, the Express-Times reports. And the Morning Call notes that a board resolution said board members thought the school hadn't shown plans to teach consumer sciences, health, music and other "core areas." Wilson board members had expressed some skepticism when school representatives first came before them in December. The school had support in Easton from members of the Greater Shiloh Church and its Pastor Phillip Davis, as well as former Bethlehem Area School …

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Charter School Proposed For West Easton

gene parziale

8:44 am on Sunday, March 3, 2013

Since when are consumer science and music "core areas". What happen to plain old math, science, history as the core. I am sure it has more to do with losing money from their trough then education.   more ›

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Wilson Dixie Cup Plant Could Have New Life

School board narrowly approves plan to put 'iconic' Wilson factory on the state's KOZ list.

  • GOVERNMENT
  • Bill Broun
  • Wednesday, December 5, 2012

A controversial $50-$60 million plan to renovate the Dixie Cup factory narrowly secured consent from Wilson Area School Board at Monday night’s regular meeting. District officials have struggled to decide whether or not to green-light the proposed Keystone Opportunity Zone, or KOZ, at the prominent but long-blighted site. In the end, they voted 5-4 to approve it. “It will be an asset to the community as an iconic building,” co-owner Joseph Reibman argued before a divided school board. The state-administered, competitive KOZ program offers tax relief to residents and businesses as a way to spur development of older, qualifying properties; with the Dixie Cup factory, an estimated $680 million in school tax revenues over 10 years is at stake…

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Dixie Cup Plan on Hold in Wilson (in Easton Patch)

Bill Broun

9:58 am on Thursday, December 6, 2012

@joan. Just to add: According to Reibman, some of the tax-break incentives sought require that certain historical aspects of the building are preserved. The windows, for example, will be very pricey specialized items. Seems unlikely that Dixie Cup apartments will be downmarket, but who knows?   more ›

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