EASD Sheds Security Guards

When people now arrive at the front of an Easton Area elementary school and hit the buzzer to get inside, a security guard would buzz them in.

Not anymore.

The has done away with security guards, yet another casualty of an off-season that saw more than 100 teachers and 50 staffers lose their jobs in the wake of closing a budget deficit.

Security guards at Cheston, Forks, Palmer, March, Shawnee, Tracy and Paxinosa elementary schools were eliminated as part of the Easton Area School District's layoffs for 2012-13, according to the Express-Times.

said her school staff is adjusting to personnel cuts. She did not go into detail about how many staff were lost and what adjustments were made during an interview Tuesday.

The was Monday.