Plenty!
You can revisit our post on gerrymandering of the CBSD voting districts and consider these headlines:
Central Bucks school board has ties to a Christian nationalist group, and is considering removing 4 LGBTQ books from its libraries
January 25, 2023, WHYY
Recent updates to the policy were reviewed by a conservative Christian law firm, Independence Law Center, as first reported by the Bucks County Courier Times. The Independence Law Center is the legal arm of the Pennsylvania Family Institute, which is a statewide branch of the national organization Family Research Council, an anti-LGBTQ Christian nationalist group designated as an extremist hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The move calls into question the separation of church and state within a public school district.
Central Bucks School District paying McSwain $940 an hour to investigate alleged anti-LGBTQ bias
Updated Dec 10, 2022, The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Central Bucks School District is paying former U.S. Attorney Bill McSwain $940 an hour to address allegations it has created a hostile environment for LGBTQ students.
According to the district’s agreement with the Duane Morris law firm — hired by the district to respond to a complaint filed in October by the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania with the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education and conduct an internal investigation — Central Bucks will pay a second attorney, Michael Rinaldi, also a former federal prosecutor, $640 an hour.
Court Permits Unequal Pay Collective Action to Proceed: What Schools Can Do to Proactively Avoid Wage Bias Litigation
Sept. 6, 2022
A group of female teachers in Pennsylvania were recently given the green light by a federal court judge to proceed with their wage bias lawsuit as a collective action, which should provide schools across the country incentive to make sure their own pay equity houses are in order. On August 24, U.S. District Judge Michael M. Baylson granted Dawn Marinello’s motion for final certification in her case pending in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania filed against her employer, Central Bucks School District. Marinello filed her lawsuit against the school district in June 2021, alleging that it violated the Equal Pay Act by paying its female teachers less than their male counterparts.
CB School Board partners with PR firm to improve community relations
August 4, 2022, The Bucks County Herald
The Central Bucks School Board voted at its July 26 meeting to hire the firm Devine + Partners in an attempt to repair strained public relations and improve the school district’s image.
Doing so will cost the district approximately $15,000 per month, or $180,000 per year, plus any out-of-pocket costs that will be billed separately.
[ Just a thought: perhaps they wouldn’t have to waste tax payer dollars if they didn’t make terrible decisions to satisfy a radical minority. ]
