{"id":140514,"date":"2025-02-20T21:17:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T02:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=140514"},"modified":"2025-02-20T21:17:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T02:17:52","slug":"schweyer-supports-nomination-of-dr-carrie-rowe-to-serve-as-secretary-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=140514","title":{"rendered":"Schweyer supports nomination of Dr. Carrie Rowe to serve as Secretary of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania House Education Committee Majority Chairman, Peter Schweyer, today issued the following statement on Governor Shapiro\u2019s nomination of Dr. Carrie Rowe to serve as Secretary of Education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince my first day as the Chair of the House Education Committee, I have enjoyed a positive and collaborative relationship with Dr. Rowe supporting students, teachers and school administrators across Pennsylvania. Her decades of experience, knowledge and insights are invaluable, and her dedication to ensuring every child has the same educational opportunities, regardless of their zip code is unquestionable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI support Governor Shapiro\u2019s nomination of Dr. Rowe and the House Education Committee, and I remain fully committed to working with her and the Department of Education on continuing fair and equitable education funding, ensuring safe and comfortable learning environments for students and teachers and expanding opportunities for career and technical education,\u201d said Schweyer.<\/p>\n<p>Schweyer is the Majority Chair of the Pennsylvania House Education Committee and 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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nThomas LeClair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania House Education Committee Majority Chairman, Peter Schweyer, today issued the following statement on Governor Shapiro\u2019s nomination of Dr. Carrie Rowe to serve as Secretary of Education. \u201cSince my first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=140514\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Schweyer supports nomination of Dr. Carrie Rowe to serve as Secretary of Education<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115768,"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-140514","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\/HARRISBURG-copy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140514"}],"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=140514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}