Opinion
Voters Can Stop Book Banning in Central Bucks School District
Books can provide readers with places of connection, build empathy, and overcome division. Banning books accomplished the opposite.
Lela Casey
October 4, 2023
Books can provide readers with places of connection, build empathy, and overcome division. Banning books accomplished the opposite.
Voters have an opportunity to steer the community away from the ugly divisiveness introduced by Moms for Liberty, Paul Martino, and outside groups.
There is a cultural rot of backlash politics, vindictiveness, and deception that is eating away at the district. Only voters can cure this in November.
Excessive, unwarranted, and secretly rammed through at the last minute with zero transparency, many parents were outraged at Tuesday’s school board meeting.
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?
The “sham investigation” commissioned by the right-wing school board majority was never about uncovering the truth, it was about creating a political prop for upcoming elections.
“I think book banning has become very much a kind of copy-paste action,” Kwok told Bucks County Beacon writer Lela Casey.
Language and societal norms change. Literature is a good way to record those changes and discuss why they happen.
Teachers, students, and parents are opposed to Central Bucks School District Policy 321, which they believe is “born out of bigotry and discrimination” and targets LGBTQ students.
With more than 100 members, the Congressional Progressive Caucus has a track record of pushing the policy debate towards bold solutions.
The Women’s Law Project supports Campaign for Accountability’s request that PA Attorney General Michelle Henry investigate personal data collection practices by these anti-abortion centers.
Ehasz’s unwavering support for teachers and public education was highlighted in contrast to Republican incumbent Brian Fitzpatrick’s support for extremist Moms for Liberty-backed school board candidates.
Advocates for the unhoused in Bucks County weigh in on what this decision could mean for our most vulnerable community members.
The new federal standards demonstrate that the Biden administration takes clean water seriously and will continue to take necessary action to stop chemical manufacturers from endangering our most vulnerable residents.
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