Replacing Social Studies With STEM Is a Terrible Idea
Humanities in public schools help students understand, and engage with, the world.
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.
If the right-wing Supreme Court majority gives Oklahoma the green light to open the nation’s first religious public charter school, the already crumbling wall separating Church and State will have a gaping hole in it.
From financials to contracts and even policies, the SASD Board Directors eschew transparency and accountability by failing to provide documents and not archiving meeting videos.
After voters gave the Central Bucks school board a mandate for change, the new Democratic majority is “not rushing things” in order to ensure community input.
Coupled with laws that limit rights, collective biases serve to stigmatize transgender people, hurting their overall health and well-being.
A Crawford County resident sought school board members’ posts about an LGBTQ+ book display, one that includes calling the library exhibit “totally evil.”
A new report by Education Voters of Pennsylvania found a pattern of discrimination based on LGBTQ+ status, disability, religion, and more – discrimination that would never be allowed in public schools.
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.
Doylestown’s Olcay Ayata, a Turkish-American Muslim, feels unwelcome and unsafe — even as a citizen.
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.
Thankfully, there are brave faith leaders standing firmly in the breach, refusing to let the Bible and the church be hijacked by Christian Nationalists.
Environmentalists say that allowing the industry to drill in Pennsylvania’s part of the watershed would risk contaminating drinking water for some 15 million people with toxic chemicals.