Opinion
It’s Time to Talk About Educational Reparations
A review of “Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal,” by Dr. Bettina L. Love.
Ben Hodge
September 6, 2023
Opinion
Opinion
What’s In Hillsdale’s 1776 Curriculum?
History is a conversation, unending and always open to new discussion and insights. What Hillsdale is pushing is a completely other view of what history even is, a view that looks remarkably like indoctrination.
Peter Greene
September 5, 2023
Opinion
Solar for Schools: A Win for Kids, Taxpayers and Pennsylvania
Conservation Voters of PA Executive Director Molly Parzen explains why Rep. Elizabeth Fiedler’s House Bill 1032 has the potential to be transformative for the Commonwealth.
Molly Parzen
September 5, 2023
Opinion
Labor Day’s Forgotten Older Workers
Over the next decade, about 40 percent of middle-class older workers will be pushed into or near poverty when they reach retirement age.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
September 4, 2023
Opinion
Trans Students Benefit from Gender-Inclusive classrooms, and So Do the Other Students
Initiatives like Gender-Inclusive Biology, Project Biodiversity, and Welcoming Schools offer resources to help adapt curriculum to acknowledge and celebrate variation in the living world.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
August 31, 2023
Opinion
OPINION: Never a Good Time for Vermilion Education and Hillsdale 1776 Curriculum in Pennridge, or Any Bucks County School District
Pennridge’s new social studies curriculum will force teachers to indoctrinate students with a whitewashed, nationalistic revisionist history.
Kevin E. Leven
August 29, 2023
Opinion
The Value of a Good Public Education for All
Unfortunately, there is a national, well-funded right-wing movement underfoot that believes it can inflame people’s fears and prejudices to hijack and undermine public education in a desperate attempt to seize political power.
Steve Cickay
August 29, 2023
Opinion
Book Review – The Gun Dilemma: How History Is Against Expanded Gun Rights
This is a working handbook for thoughtful and concerned citizens and voters to use in our country’s ongoing and relentless battle for sane, meaningful, and effective gun safety policies.
Joe Sundeen
August 28, 2023
Opinion
We Still Have a Dream
Sixty years after Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, our racial economic divide is vast as ever. But it can still be closed — and quickly.
Dedrick Asante-Muhammad and Chuck Collins
August 28, 2023
5 Reasons Veterans Are Especially Hard-hit by Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Federal Cuts
March 10, 2025
The Trump administration has abandoned the U.S. government’s long-standing commitment to protect and serve its veterans — a promise that dates back to the country’s founding.
GOP Lawmakers Push to Charge Women with Homicide for Seeking Abortions
March 9, 2025
‘Fetal personhood’ bills would grant fetuses, embryos the same rights as newborns.
Bucks County Republican Jim Greenwood Joins Former Members of Congress Calling on Lawmakers to Rein in Trump and Musk’s Abuse of Power
March 7, 2025
The open letter organized by Issue One warns that “America is suddenly at a perilous crossroad” and urges Congress to start acting like a check and balance to the executive branch as the Constitution mandates.
Nearly 1 in 3 Families with Children in Bucks County Are Struggling Economically, Says New Report
March 7, 2025
This is why State Rep. Jim Prokopiak keeps his focus in Harrisburg squarely on “increased education funding, and [the need to] make sure that we have access to affordable healthcare and good paying jobs.”
Pennsylvania’s Century-old Election Code Needs Fixes, Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt Says
March 7, 2025
The state’s top election official calls on the Legislature to update rules, and to give local administrators a voice.
