{"id":133056,"date":"2024-07-23T21:16:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T01:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=133056"},"modified":"2024-07-23T21:16:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T01:16:32","slug":"schweyer-issues-statement-on-passhe-chancellor-stepping-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=133056","title":{"rendered":"Schweyer issues statement on PASSHE Chancellor stepping down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HARRISBURG, July 23 \u2013<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Pennsylvania\u00a0House Education Committee Majority Chairman, Peter Schweyer, today issued the following statement on the announcement of PASSHE Chancellor Dr. Dan Greenstein stepping down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince becoming the Chair of the House Education Committee, Dr. Greenstein and I have enjoyed a positive working relationship working on behalf of the students, faculty and the member institutions. His input was especially helpful as we crafted a series of new and quite significant higher education policies during this budget season. I genuinely appreciate his help and wish him the best on his future endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the current and future students enrolled in PASSHE schools, please know that as Chair of the House Education Committee, I remain fully committed to the stability and future success of these tremendous schools. Dr. Greenstein\u2019s recent announcement will be met with our resolve to work with University Presidents, faculty leaders and others to ensure a smooth transition with little to no impact on you, the students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schweyer represents the 134<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Legislative District which serves a portion of the city of Allentown, all of Emmaus Borough and a portion of Salisbury Township in Lehigh County.<\/p>\n<p><em>House Democrats are committed to promoting better jobs, better schools and better communities. Putting people ahead of politics, House Democrats are leading the charge to lower taxes, help workers save for retirement, put more teachers in local schools, and make communities safer. More information on these successful efforts is at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/pahouse.com\/deliveringforpa\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/pahouse.com\/deliveringforpa&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1721863744673000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3L_KtI1V4ZYRVRmIyd24KF\"><em>pahouse.com\/deliveringforpa<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nThomas LeClair<br \/>\nResearch Analyst<br \/>\nHouse Democratic Education Committee<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, July 23 \u2013\u00a0Pennsylvania\u00a0House Education Committee Majority Chairman, Peter Schweyer, today issued the following statement on the announcement of PASSHE Chancellor Dr. Dan Greenstein stepping down. \u201cSince becoming the Chair &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=133056\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Schweyer issues statement on PASSHE Chancellor stepping down<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/rep-schweyer-134th.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}