April 18, 2023 | Book Bans, Pennsylvania, Ronna Dewey
About four hours before the Central Bucks School District passed a new library policy in July, local high school junior Lily Freeman warned a crowd of about 100 what would follow. The policy, passed by a 6-3 vote, targeted books with explicit or implied depictions of...
April 16, 2023 | Book Bans, Pennsylvania
If you ban it, they will come. For the better part of an hour Saturday, dozens of teenagers and their parents snaked around the towering stacks of tomes inside Kutztown’s Firefly Books and sometimes spilled onto the sidewalks of this quaint Berks County college town —...
April 01, 2023 | Education, Pennsylvania
Parents and teachers from Florida and Pennsylvania said they stand opposed to DeSantis’ politics, namely his tailoring of Florida’s school curriculum and book bans. “These children will be our future and if they don’t know the true history and they are...
January 08, 2023 | Elections, Pennsylvania, Reproductive Rights, Ronna Dewey
By Ronna Dewey Pennsylvania House Republicans are blatantly trying to hold on to their power and push their out-of-touch agenda. Pennsylvania voters overwhelmingly supported Democrats up and down the ballot, electing a 102-101 Democrat majority in the state House. But...
