News
Who Is Beating Back Book Bans?
Amidst a rising tide of anti-LGBTQ book bans, activists, authors, and librarians are organizing to make sure LGBTQ stories are still heard.
Sara Youngblood Gregory
March 22, 2024
Education
News
New Report Gives Pennsylvania a C Grade for Its Support of Public Schools
PA remains a state of wide educational contrasts between wealthy and poor, rural and urban, and large and small school districts, as well as the contrast between those that welcome and support diversity and others that are repressive and discriminatory.
Peter Greene
March 21, 2024
News
Souderton Area School District Sued For Refusing To Produce Documents Regarding the Independence Law Center
A local parent is hoping sunlight will be the best disinfectant when it comes to cleaning up a school board that operates by keeping parents in the dark.
Jenny Stephens
March 12, 2024
Opinion
In Pennsylvania, School Vouchers Fund and Fuel Hate
Education Voters of Pennsylvania Executive Director Susan Spicka gave the following testimony at the state House Democratic Policy Committee hearing on the Basic Education Funding Commission Report.
Susan Spicka
March 12, 2024
Opinion
Just Say No to Governor Shapiro’s Performance-based Budgeting for Public Higher Education
This proposal is akin to putting PASSHE institutions into a pressure cooker and threatening them to grow or die, write concerned West Chester University faculty members.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
March 11, 2024
News
Bucks County Changemakers Interview with Kim Barbaro, Red Wine & Blue’s Deputy Director of ‘TroubleNation’
“Everyone has the power to create change.”
Edie Weinstein
March 6, 2024
Opinion
How Teens Benefit from Being Able to Read ‘Disturbing’ Books That Some Want to Ban
Students who read and talk to each other about stories with social themes report greater motivation to read, greater use of reading strategies, and insight into human nature than those who do not.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
March 5, 2024
News
The Independence Law Center Seeks to Impose its Biblical Worldview on Pennsylvania School Districts
The law firm has quietly helped districts draft policies for banning books, discriminating against LGBTQ students, and promoting reactionary Christian values.
Peter Greene
March 5, 2024
Opinion
Maurice Cunningham: Key Takeaways of Moms for Liberty on ‘60 Minutes’
Reason and common sense triumphed over ignorance, extremism, hate, and fear-mongering in Beaufort, South Carolina. Moms for Liberty’s brand is now toxic and widely despised.
Maurice T. Cunningham
March 4, 2024
Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Shut Down After Being Defunded by Congress, Targeted by Trump
August 1, 2025
The closure is expected to have a profound impact on the journalistic and cultural landscape — in particular, public radio and TV stations in small communities across the United States.
Meet Bucks County Beacon Summer Reporting Intern Naomi Weiss
July 30, 2025
Naomi is a Pennsbury High School graduate and rising junior at the University of Pittsburgh. She has written 21 articles for us so far, with more on the way.
OPINION: What It Feels Like to Be an Immigrant Living in Trump’s America
July 30, 2025
Doylestown’s Olcay Ayata, a Turkish-American Muslim, feels unwelcome and unsafe — even as a citizen.
Photo Essay: Bearing Witness to America’s Cruel and Unusual Treatment of Immigrants
July 29, 2025
After covering weeks of abductions and disappearances of immigrants at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City starting on May 29, I remain stupefied that I am witnessing the harvesting of human beings in real time, writes photojournalist Michael Nigro.
The Battle Over Hearts and Minds in Pennsylvania’s Bible Belt
July 27, 2025
Thankfully, there are brave faith leaders standing firmly in the breach, refusing to let the Bible and the church be hijacked by Christian Nationalists.
