The school district’s defense is that’s how they’ve been conducting business for years — which amounts to largely keeping parents and taxpayers in the dark.
Tackling major issues with civility, including policy revisions and curriculum changes, was a welcomed change from the wrangling and backstabbing of the last two years.
Unfortunately, extremist groups like Moms for Liberty are attacking CSE in schools claiming it “sexualizes” students, while even suggesting it’s a Trojan horse for Critical Race Theory.
As voucher systems expand, they cannibalize states’ ability to pay for their public education commitments. Vouchers do, however, benefit churches and church schools.
A chaotic exit by the outgoing Republican board majority sabotaged the first meeting of the newly elected board.
“It’s no longer a matter of political convenience, but a matter of what students are constitutionally entitled to,” said Public Interest Law Center attorney Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg.
Humanities in public schools help students understand, and engage with, the world.
The board’s lack of financial transparency prohibits stakeholders from seeing a full accounting of the district’s spending, including paying for services that aren’t utilized.
A Supreme Court ruling, likely to come in spring or early summer 2024, could also establish whether social media accounts of public officials should be treated as personal or governmental.
“We’re absolutely in a public health crisis of epic proportions. We’re in a situation where there are reproductive health care deserts, not just abortion care deserts,” said National Abortion Federation President and CEO Brittany Fonteno.
Reporting intern Naomi Weiss interviewed protesters.
The “No Kings” rallies were organized in nearly 2,000 locations nationwide, including cities, towns, and community spaces.
Past is prologue in Central Bucks, where prior school boards kept kicking the fiscal can down the road until the bill finally came due, writes CBSD Board Vice President Heather Reynolds.
“The Constitution does not grant the President any specific powers over elections,” wrote Judge Denise J. Casper of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts.
