Meghan Budden’s family was considering moving if their Pennsylvania school district didn’t change course. She normally isn’t politically active, she said, but felt compelled to volunteer when a slate of Democrats launched bids to take back their school board in Central Bucks School District, just north of Philadelphia.
Central Bucks is well known both statewide and nationally for heated board meetings over masks and Pride flags, policies banning certain books and directives to not use students’ preferred names and pronouns. Accusations of discrimination against LGBTQ students have also led to an ongoing investigation by the U.S. Department of Education.
“I couldn’t have my kids in a school district where these kinds of things were happening,” Budden said.
I thought Erie would have the 3rd biggest school district isn’t it the 3rd biggest city in PA?
CB is pretty big. Bucks’ population is like 650k compared to <100k for Erie. CB is the biggest district in Bucks. Although other counties, like Montco, have a larger population, they have smaller districts. CB has like 3 high schools with 2k kids each, I think.