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son had to board a bus at seven in the morning to get to a school where classes started at 8:15. A mother from Duryea told the Duryea correspondent that her seven kids were bussed on different
time schedules to four different schools, all of which were “dilapidated” compared to Duryea. A hastily formed Northeast Taxpayers Association met in the Duryea Town Hall and argued they were sold a bill of goods when told the district would cost less than the community districts. Taxes were set at 75 mills district-wide to pay for
the then unheard of $1.1 million budget, a large increase in each case. Pittston City’s school millage was 35. In West Pittston, considered the best district in the area, the millage was 44. On Sept. 16 the Dispatch published an edition with a frontpage, above the masthead editorial headlined “Merger: Too Soon, Small Kids to Face Hard-
ships.” But there was no turning back. Northeast lasted four years. For the 1966-67 year it merged with Pittston city to form Pittston Area. That same year Wyoming Ar-
ea opened on the West Side. In a span of four years the 11 school districts in the Pittston area had been reduced to two. State-wide school districts were reduced from more than 2,000 to 501.
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