Easton Area School District to Consider Sale of $200 Million of Debt at July 21 Meeting

July 15, 2026

— Jeff Ward, Lehigh Valley News Briefs

The Easton Area School District will vote July 21 on the sale of as much as $200 million in bonds, according to a legal notice.

The new debt will be used to pay off older bonds and for capital projects. The district is building a $298 million new high school on the campus of the current school in Palmer Township.

The EASD school board voted in May to raise property taxes 3.5%, in part to cover rising costs and in part for the new high school.

From the notice: “It is expected that the principal amount of the Bonds will not exceed $200,000,000, but the exact principal amount will not be known until the successful underwriter’s bid is presented.”

The rest of the notice is mostly boilerplate financial language.

The legal notice in The Morning Call was submitted by Jack Trent, the district’s chief financial officer. Trent is leaving the EASD this summer to take a similar post at the Allentown School District.

Just an aside, but this goes to show what I said earlier: property taxes can’t be eliminated. Anybody who says they can is uninformed or trying to device you, or at best engaging in “puffery.”

I prefer politicians who are blunt to those who pass on nonsense, but we have a lot of the latter. They’re insulting the voters’ intelligence when they claim to have a way to abolish property taxes.

The Board of Directors of the Easton Area School District will meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 21 at the district education center, 1801 Bushkill Drive. Meeting agendas are subject to change. Check the EASD website closer to that date.