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Hearings are about to begin for five suspended junior senior high school teachers accused of violating this Pa. school district's alcohol policy while working as chaperons at a school dance earlier this school year.

(Wilkes-Barre Area School District)

Hearings are about to begin in the Wilkes-Barre Area School District for five suspended junior senior high school teachers accused of violating the district's alcohol policy while working as chaperones at a school dance earlier this school year, according to the Citizens Voice newspaper.

The hearings before the school board are set for April. The adjudications will revolve around the district's alcohol policy, which bans "reporting to work or working with the odor of alcohol on his/her person or clothing or with drugs or alcohol in his/her possession," the newspaper wrote.

Punishment could be firing, the newspaper reports. As it is, the teachers have been suspended with pay since the incident last month.

Citing sources, the Citizens Voice has identified the suspended teachers as: Mollie Evans, Jason Lukachinsky, Jill Wujcik, Corey Brenner and Glenn Zimmerman.

The salaries of the suspended teachers are: Evans, $61,163; Lukachinsky, $48,798; Wujcik, $59,732; Brenner, $52,176; Zimmerman, $53,741, the newspaper reported.