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
Bucks County Sheriff Fred Harran’s Lawyer Calls ACLU and Fellow Plaintiffs in ICE Lawsuit Part of ‘Violent and Radical Left’
October 11, 2025
What’s next? Labelling them Antifa. Local voters must deport this MAGA sheriff from his office on Nov. 4 to end his ICE 287(g) agreement once and for all, writes Editor Cyril Mychalejko.
‘Ban This! How One School Fought Two Book Bans and Won’ Authors Set to Speak in Newtown and Doylestown
October 11, 2025
“We are all looking for some kind of hope; for someone who has been successful in taking on the far right,” said Barbara Simmons, executive director of The Peace Center in Langhorne.
Pennsylvania Immigration Coalition Launches Solidarity Fund for Immigrant Communities Across Pennsylvania
October 9, 2025
PA FIRE’s goal is to create “a groundbreaking, statewide initiative to protect immigrant rights, expand vital services and drive long-term systems change across the commonwealth.”
With SNAP Cuts, Rising Hunger and Funding Reductions, Bucks County Food Banks Feeling Squeezed
October 9, 2025
“Families are feeling the pressure, and so are the systems meant to support them,” said Elizabeth Zbinden, Food Program Manager with Bucks County Opportunity Council.
Moms for Liberty CEO and Co-Founder Tina Descovich Verbally Attacks the Bucks County Beacon at Harrisburg-Area Event
October 8, 2025
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