The Harrisburg School District will exit state control, or receivership, on June 18, after the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) decided to not petition the courts to keep the district under direct state control for another three years.

The move will be a big change for city schools, which were stripped of most of their local control in 2019 after years of financial struggles.

What will actually change on June 18?

The district’s nine-member elected school board will resume control of city schools, exercising authority in the way a school board normally does.

Under receivership, most of the board’s powers were surrendered to a receiver selected by PDE and approved by a judge. Until the receivership ends two weeks from now, court-appointed receiver Lori Suski still has effecti

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