An Allentown-based child-care business hopes to find space to allow it to run its programs for students from the Tamaqua Area School District.

During the Tamaqua school board’s committees meeting Tuesday, Superintendent Raymond Kinder said that Lehigh Valley Children’s Centers has made a preliminary inquiry about the possibility. According to the child care center website, LVCC runs programs for children ranging in age from infants to school age, offering flexible hours including full-time, part-time, daily or hourly to “meet the needs of working parents.”

LVCC currently runs programs in schools in Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Emmaus and Nazareth.

“It’s premature to say whether or not we have availability,” Kinder said, adding that he wanted to let the board know about the information. “They are looking for space for the next school year.”

Larry Wittig

Larry Wittig, who has been president of the school board since 1995, was present at the meeting.

Last month, Wittig, 68, faced accusations of sexual misconduct involving Annette DeMichele. DeMichele, now 53, said that the two had an affair when she was 17 and a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania.

DeMichele was a member of the rowing team which Wittig coached; DeMichele said that although the affair was “consensual” at that time, after recent publicity about sexual harassment of women by powerful men, she felt she may have been “coerced” into the affair.

DeMichele, married to attorney Jonathan Feigelson since 1998, lives in New York. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985, she earned a law degree and a doctorate in clinical psychology. She worked for Bill Clinton’s campaign in 1992.

In the wake of the sexual harassment allegations, Wittig resigned from the Pennsylvania State Board of Education. He’d been appointed to the board in 2001 and had served as its chair since 2011.

During the Tamaqua Area School board’s committees meeting Tuesday, members did not discuss the allegations against Wittig.

Other business

• In other business, the auxiliary committee approved a second reading of various policies, including student representation, the organizational chart, policy formulation/development and use of school facilities. Kinder called the adaptations as “maintenance” to the existing policies that the committee had recommended while reviewing policy manuals.

• District Business Manager Connie Ligenza, along with the finance committee members, scheduled an initial budget workshop for 7 p.m. Feb. 6.