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.
In this episode we unmask the right-wing extremist figures, their tactics, and the funding behind today’s attack on public education in Bucks County and beyond.
The Bucks County Beacon kicks off its new podcast by interviewing a local immigrant rights solidarity activist about her recent trip to the Texas-Mexico border.
What we are seeing today in Central Bucks School District is just the latest chapter in the history of the right’s long war against public education – and progress in general.
Too little, too late: Why weren’t teacher and staff feedback elicited and prioritized during the crafting of the policy?
For freshman Republican lawmakers Hogan and Marcell, who joined Tomlinson, their very first vote in office was a display of bipartisanship to elect Democrat Mark Rozzi.
“It is heartbreaking to see Congress embrace a budget bill that strips meals and health care away from children and families to fund massive tax breaks for the super wealthy and an unaccountable private school voucher program,” said PSEA President Aaron Chapin.
The Bucks County Beacons’s reporting on Senate Bill 780 was incomplete and inaccurate, argues the head of the Bucks County Democratic Committee in an OpEd.
Education reporter Peter Greene breaks down Mahmoud v. Taylor.
“Head Start has been called one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in American history and continuing this comprehensive program is a reason for hope,” said Adam Clark, region advocacy coordinator for Pennsylvania State Education Association.
“This bill would allow you to set aside any state law, you could pollute the air as much as you want, you could pollute the water as much as you want, you could do anything essentially that you wanted that would ordinarily violate the law,” said former Secretary for PA’s Department of Environmental Protection David Hess.
