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I taught students English at Cheltenham High School from 1966 to 2001. My former students agree that they received an excellent education in our school district. There was proper oversight and …

Over the last couple of weeks, you may have heard news about the Pennsylvania Award for Student Success program, or PASS. You may have also heard that this program, aimed at giving children in …

Pennridge School Board member Christine Batycki says she learned “by happenstance” Friday morning that curriculum consultant Jordan Adams would be meeting later that day with two other school directors.

The Quakertown Community School District is joining more than 300 districts across the country in a lawsuit against social media companies. School board members approved the move at their final meeting of the school year.

Palisades School Board Thursday picked Michael Hsu, the current president of the Palisades Community Foundation, and Amanda Benoikan, the director of education for the New Hope-Solebury School …

The Pennsbury School District is calling on community members to join a design committee to guide the future of Pennsbury High School.

A failed attempt to fill the new position of district engineer led to tension among some Neshaminy School Board members on June 27.A motion to appoint Robert Maloney, currently the district's …

Souderton Area School District (SASD) unanimously approved the proposed 2023–24 budget on June 22. The $147,595,007-budget reflects the Act 1 index increase of 4.1%. The current tax rate is 31.440 …

The Council Rock School Board approved a final 2023-24 budget with a 2 percent property tax hike at its June 22 meeting while also taking steps to start the search to replace Human Resources Director …

Embattled Vermilion Education chief Jordan Adams says he has no regrets about a curriculum review he provided last week to the Pennridge School Board that was panned for being unoriginal, …

Tuesday’s back-to-back-to-back Pennridge School Board committee meetings took nearly six and a half hours to complete and featured discussion of five hot-button issues, dozens of public comments, …

For the third consecutive year, the Central Bucks School District is raising taxes. In a unanimous vote, the school board recently approved a 2.75 percent millage rate hike, meaning those with an …

The New Hope-Solebury School District hosted its first STEAM Expo event in May to show off the components of its brand-new, state-of-the-art STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) …

A deeply divided Pennridge School Board last night narrowly approved a contract with a curriculum consultant that one director called "unqualified" with "political motivations.”

It was a busy facilities night for the Council Rock School Board as it awarded a total of $6.12 million in contracts for summer projects and other improvements on April 20. On the summer projects, the …

The Palisades School District’s Fiscal Committee is recommending a no-tax increase budget for 2023-24. The announcement was made during the committee report at the March 15 school board meeting.

800+ alumni condemn “dangerous” Central Bucks policies

Editor’s Note: The authors of this open letter to the Central Bucks School Board collected more than 800 signatures of support for its contents from other alumni, as well as about two dozen current students.

The complexity of gender identity

I taught English and retired from CB South in 2016. When I began at Unami in the ‘90s, I thought Central Bucks the most enlightened district ever. In every decade in the second half of the 20th …

The Council Rock School District has a new man to head up its financial matters after the school board approved the appointment of Anthony Rapp to the position of director of business administration …

The Central Bucks School District has chosen a law firm that specializes in religious freedom and transgender rights cases to review its new library policy. As it moves forward to implement its …

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