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October 2025
 
Dear Lackawanna Trail Community,
 
October is here, and we are steadily finding our rhythm as the school year progresses. In just a few weeks, we’ll be wrapping up the first marking period. Thank you for all you do to make us Lion proud.  Student centered academic, athletic, and extracurricular endeavors K-12 have been commendable, and we have so much more to look forward to as we move through the Fall. 
 
School safety has been a topic of conversation and concern as of late, and understandably many have searched for reassurance about the procedures and protocols followed.  Therefore, I would like to take advantage of this venue and reference some of the safety features Lackawanna Trail utilizes:
 
  • Standing Stone Consulting and Security oversees our security needs and provides us with two full time School Police Officers as well as a substitute pool when necessary.  They have done an exemplary job keeping us safe, and we are still working with our School Police Officers to make the traffic flow in and out of each building as safe, secure, and efficient as possible.  Thank you for your patience as we work through this.
  • Our School Safety Committee meets regularly and acts as an advisory panel to the Board of Directors and administration.  This committee is made up of  administrators, Board members, and law enforcement officials.
  • Policies and procedures related to school safety are reviewed and updated regularly.
  • Lackawanna Trail is part of the Safe Schools Network established by the District Attorney’s Office of Lackawanna County. 
  • Physical safety upgrades in both buildings, in particular at the high school, have given our students and employees a modern/cutting edge facility that is both educationally functional and secure. 
  • When you see something, say something. When you hear something, say something.  These are expectations we have for all of our students and employees who have knowledge of a potential safety concern.  The administration is grateful to receive any reports of this nature, and rest assured we investigate each concern collaboratively and  thoroughly.
 
I’d like to conclude my message as follows, when school is open and/or extracurricular and after school events are running as scheduled, we are safe.  When I close school or postpone events it is likely because of outstanding unresolved safety issues that I am evaluating with the input from my administration, school police officers, law enforcement, and threat assessment team.  Unfortunately, I can’t always share the reasons for those safety concerns with the public, but rest assured I won’t allow an event to run as scheduled until there is a reasonable expectation of safety.
 
 
Thank you,
 
Matthew Rakauskas
Superintendent
Lackawanna Trail School District
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