Opinion
Letters: I Love the Idea of America; What Is Civility When Defending Democracy?
Bucks County Beacon readers sound off.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
July 5, 2025
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News
The GOP’s Budget Bill and Its Federal Funding Cuts Will Harm Bucks County Students
“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.
Melinda Rizzo
July 3, 2025
News
Supreme Court Provides Cover for Bigotry Draped in the Fig Leaf of Religion With LGBTQ School Books Decision
Education reporter Peter Greene breaks down Mahmoud v. Taylor.
Peter Greene
July 1, 2025
News
The Christian Nationalist Pulpit Is on the Precipice of the Schoolhouse Steps, and People Are Fighting Back
Local resistance is blocking state legislation to bring Christian nationalism into public schools.
Danny Cherry
June 28, 2025
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What is CREC? The Christian Nationalist Group Has a Vision for America − and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Support
The Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches is most easily understood through three main parts: churches, schools and media.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
June 20, 2025
Opinion
Who We Choose to See: A Call for Fairness, Understanding, and Support in Special Education
Special education deserves more than reactive conversations and temporary concern. It deserves sustained investment, public recognition, and structural support.
Olcay Ayata
June 17, 2025
Opinion
Why Taxes Were Raised in Central Bucks School District — And Why It Matters for the Community
Past is prologue in Central Bucks, where prior school boards kept kicking the fiscal can down the road until the bill finally came due, writes CBSD Board Vice President Heather Reynolds.
Heather Reynolds
June 14, 2025
News
Souderton Area School District Lifts Ban on Two Parents and Former Student; ACLU Lawsuit Seeking Damages for Alleged Free Speech and Due Process Violations Continues
“It was a strict draconian ban,” said ACLU PA legal director Sara Rose.
Melinda Rizzo
June 9, 2025
News
From Outlaw to Icon: Bambi on Trans Survival, Fame, JK Rowling, and the Fight That Isn’t Over
What Pruvot — who would soon become famous as Bambi — witnessed was more than mere performance: it was an act of resistance from the ashes of the Nazi persecution of the LGBTQ+ community.
AP
June 1, 2025
The GOP’s Budget Bill and Its Federal Funding Cuts Will Harm Bucks County Students
July 3, 2025
“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.
State Senator Steve Santarsiero: It’s Possible to Be an Advocate for the Homeless and Believe Encampments Are Not a Good Idea
July 2, 2025
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.
Supreme Court Provides Cover for Bigotry Draped in the Fig Leaf of Religion With LGBTQ School Books Decision
July 1, 2025
Education reporter Peter Greene breaks down Mahmoud v. Taylor.
Head Start in Bucks County Saved, Federal Funding Extended for Next 5 Years
June 30, 2025
“Head Start has been called one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in American history and continuing this comprehensive program is a reason for hope,” said Adam Clark, region advocacy coordinator for Pennsylvania State Education Association.
Regulatory Sandbox Proposed by Republican Pennsylvania Lawmaker Would Allow Businesses to Sidestep State Environmental Regulations
June 30, 2025
“This bill would allow you to set aside any state law, you could pollute the air as much as you want, you could pollute the water as much as you want, you could do anything essentially that you wanted that would ordinarily violate the law,” said former Secretary for PA’s Department of Environmental Protection David Hess.
