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Harrisburg School District ends receivership

Harrisburg School District will be out from under state control by mid-June, but that doesn’t mean the city school system is fully out of the woods, financially or academically.

The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) announced Tuesday the school district will exit receivership effective at 11:59 p.m. on June 17.

On June 18, the city school board will resume full authority over the district for the first time since 2019, when the state successfully petitioned the courts to strip the district of local control due to years of financial insolvency and questionable governance.

The district, officials said Tuesday, still has a lot of work to do, and will now enter a five-year monitoring period during which it will still be

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