A decades-old law allows Pennsylvania school districts to keep homeless children out of school. Newly revived legislation would change that.
School-based arrests are one part of the school-to-prison pipeline, through which students – especially Black and Latine students and those with disabilities – are pushed out of their schools and into the legal system.
A binding treaty on plastic pollution that has a chance at success must minimize oil and gas industry influence and have increased U.S. support for a life-cycle approach, including agreements to phase out single-use plastics and harmful chemicals.
The Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering gives people the chance to bring greater community awareness to current struggles facing Indigenous people across the globe.
Inequities in student discipline have both short-term and long-term negative consequences, such as poor student-teacher relationships and lower academic achievement.
Abortion increasingly matters to voters. And most voters do not want laws severely restricting abortion and other kinds of reproductive health care.
Attacks on school boards are part of a strategic, deliberate, and well-funded effort to erode public schools and advance a broader political agenda.
Both the press and the public have largely just shrugged their shoulders, dismissing it as crazy bluster. Here’s why not taking his words more seriously is dangerous.
The report calls for a fundamental shift in the global economy that must immediately move beyond fossil fuels, while “decoupling” economic growth from extractive resources such as timber, minerals and ore.
Meanwhile, Pennsylvania School Directors Coalition founder Christina Brussalis is tight-lipped about who’s funding the organization, who’s on the board, and whether they are working with the Independence Law Center.
The Bucks County Beacon spoke with the DeGennaro scholarship winners
from the last two years – Natalie Buechel and Dan Kovitz, both from the local band Sour Station who will be playing Saturday.
If the Supreme Court continues to overturn legal precedents on women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, and other issues, old state laws that haven’t been enforced, possibly for centuries, can suddenly spring back to life.
The 11-bill package includes solar for schools, prevailing wages for green energy, and e-waste recycling.
“Access to health care is inextricably linked to economic mobility, and basic preventative care like birth control should not be a luxury that is only available to some,” said Bucks County State Rep. Tim Brennan.
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