Still, teachers, families and advocates remain concerned about the stability of Head Start. The Trump administration is closing several regional offices and laying off the staff who support the program, which has led to funding delays that threatened to close individual preschools.
“We should be expanding access, not taking it away. Every child deserves a fair and equitable start, and I’ll fight in Congress to protect programs like Head Start that make that possible,” said Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie, a Democratic candidate for Congress in PA-01.
An independent abuse report found non-verbal Jamison Elementary School students were subjected to physical punishment and neglect. Whether people will be fired or criminally charged is up in the air.
I was shocked that anyone would consider him a good choice, writes Centennial parent Nancy Pontius.
Appropriating at least $100 million in the state budget would pay for evidenced-based literacy curricula in every district and structured literacy training for teachers.
The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the National Education Association and the ACLU, which accused the Republican administration of violating teachers’ due process and First Amendment rights.
Princeton president Christopher Eisgruber has called Trump’s latest moves “the greatest threat to American universities since the Red Scare of the 1950s”.
And here’s how you can be part of the solution.
Pen America, which reported more than 10,000 books banned in the last school year, said in a court filing that what the parents from the Maryland school district want is “a constitutionally suspect book ban by another name.”
Raymond Chang, president of the Asian American Christian Collaborative, warned that a repeal of the Johnson Amendment could help tether some congregations to certain parties or candidates.
Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates the West Chester-born civil rights activist, a mentor to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and key architect of the March on Washington.
The uncertainty around the Trump administration’s tariff strategy “is creating havoc” for Warminster-based Gamry Instruments.
“It is heartbreaking to see Congress embrace a budget bill that strips meals and health care away from children and families to fund massive tax breaks for the super wealthy and an unaccountable private school voucher program,” said PSEA President Aaron Chapin.
The Bucks County Beacons’s reporting on Senate Bill 780 was incomplete and inaccurate, argues the head of the Bucks County Democratic Committee in an OpEd.
