Compared to other local school districts, Palisades teachers receive among the lowest professional salaries in Bucks County.
“The message that is really being said to our young people is that, ‘You are controversial. We think you’re dangerous, we think you’re a threat, and we can’t talk about you.’”
The ACLU filed a complaint last week that lays bare the toxic, discriminatory environment for LGBTQ+ students in the district, thanks in part to Superintendent Lucabaugh and extremists on the school board.
The group, which claims to be about “parent rights,” has ties to the January 6 insurrection and Christian Nationalists. They also have a chapter in Bucks County.
We’re in the midst of an assault on public education that rivals the reactionary panics of the Red Scare and the McCarthy era.
The latest iteration of book bans target disfavored viewpoints by attempting to silence them in a manner that plainly violates the First Amendment rights of teachers, librarians, and students.
My school’s outlook on certain books is heartbreaking, and heavily influenced by outside politics that have no place in schools.
Teachers Ben Hodge and Patricia Jackson talk about organizing, challenging, and defeating right-wing book bans and other assaults on public education.
“The dark money infrastructure attacking public schools was built over decades,” the report argues, “before the current manufactured outrage was directed at centers of public learning.”
There were hundreds of rallies and protests against the Trump Administration across the country Saturday.
The goal of the proposed legislation is to protect women who receive abortions and the doctors and nurses who provide this reproductive health care.
Elon Musk has called on the FBI to investigate ActBlue and recently called Indivisible criminals.
“That’s my only means to commute,” said Antonio Deleon, a 38-year-old disabled Levittown resident who lives on a fixed income. He uses it to get to class and for volunteer work in Philadelphia.
About $1.6 billion in federal funding is at risk for Pennsylvania, with SNAP and Title I school free lunches among the hardest hit programs.
