What does successful student- and teacher-led community resistance to book banning look like? These two #FReadom fighters share their story – and strategy and tactics.
The ideology and worldview of conservative activist parents is creating and contributing to the ongoing school board wars.
The co-author of “A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School” and author of the forthcoming “The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual” speaks to the Bucks County Beacon about the the backlash politics driving the so-called parental rights’ movement looking to capture, transform, and potentially dismantle public education.
“Do I think there could be violence? There is violence. There are casualties all over the country,” said Sharlet, the author of “The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War.”
While the bill has very little chance of passing the Senate, the Republican Congressman has finally publicly sided with book banners and those who want to gag teachers in the classroom and whitewash history.
A radical history lesson for Women’s History Month that offers feminists lessons for today.
The long-term viability and continued growth of the Bucks County Beacon depends on readers becoming monthly sustainers.
On this episode, I welcome Liza Featherstone to the show. Liza Featherstone (@lfeatherz) is an author, journalist, essayist and critic. She is a columnist
The two heads of the extremist group’s local chapter gave an interview last week about the “battle of good and evil” they are fighting.
The current anti-LGBTQI+ rhetoric and legislation sends a chilling message to LGBTQI+ people that they do not matter, they are not equal, and that they should go back to being invisible.
Sunday’s event will feature local bands, student speakers, school board candidates, and organizing efforts to support LGBTQ youth and oppose books bans.
The MAGA millionaire whose PAC bankrolled right-wing school board candidates in 55 school districts across Pennsylvania last election cycle thinks people need to “protect” Central Bucks School District from outsiders’ influence. Maybe it’s his money and politics we need protecting from?
It’s no coincidence that advocates for loosening child labor restrictions also push for expanding charter schools and voucher programs.
A review of Matthew Dallek’s “Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right.”
