EASTON - Easton Area School District officials are using a western Pennsylvania district as a model in crafting a drug-testing policy and hope it will be as effective here as it has been there. Since the Clairton City School District introduced its pre-employment drug-testing policy one year ago, at least one prospective teacher was not hired due to a positive test result. Board member Richard Levingston said that would have been one teacher too many. "It was well worth the policy being issued," he said. [continues 390 words]
After Acerra Debacle, Current Staff Won't Be Targeted. But It Could Become Pre-Employment Policy In Region. Almost a year after a Bethlehem middle school principal was arrested for dealing drugs out of his office, local school boards are considering drug testing to ensure it doesn't happen to them. "That's a strong case supporter right there," Northampton Area School District board member Brett Reichelderfer said of John Acerra, who was arrested last February and sentenced in October to two to four years in prison. [continues 497 words]
