Education
By ED DOYLE
March 27, 2023
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Does CB West High School need a full-time, in-house police officer? At a meeting last week with officials from the Central Bucks Regional Police Department’s Police Commission, officials from the Central Bucks School District floated the idea of putting an officer from the ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—At a committee meeting on Wednesday night, a Central Bucks School District official said that the district expects to pay around $1 million in legal fees to respond to a complaint filed by the ACLU that the district is creating a toxic environment for LGBTQ students. At the ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—A group of residents who live near Linden Elementary School asked Doylestown Borough Council for help in keeping the school open and safe from development. At the council’s Monday night meeting, about 15 residents spoke about the future of the school. Some want to see the school ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Earlier this year, 25 Central Bucks students who attend Middle Bucks Institute of Technology (MBIT) won medals in a regional competition for students of tech schools. A total of 56 MBIT students competed in the regional SkillsUSA competition. The students were competing in the ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—More than 800 Central Bucks alumni have signed a letter to the district’s school board protesting polices passed in the last year that it said are “discriminatory and dangerous.” The letter, which had been posted on Google Forms for signatures but has since been removed, says that ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Two MBIT students took first place in the Philadelphia Top Tech Challenge Competition, an annual event that focuses on the role of technology in auto repair. The team consisting of Conor McGlinchey from CB South and Patrick Gallelli from Council Rock South, both students at Middle ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—A webcam at Delaware Valley University is putting the spotlight on “foaling season,” which will let viewers watch expectant horses prepare for and give birth to future race horses. The “foal cam” will focus on the work that takes place in DelVal’s degree in equine science.
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The Central Bucks School District announced yesterday that 18 of its students have been named finalists in the 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program. The announcement means that all 18 Central Bucks students who were named semifinalists in the program have moved on to become ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The public relations firm the Central Bucks School District hired in July of last year is stepping down, with school officials blaming “harassment” of the firm’s staff and several clients as the main reason. Central Bucks brought in Devine+Partners from Philadelphia to manage the ...
DOYLESTOWN—The Central Bucks School District is reviewing a list of 60 books that community members have challenged under a controversial book review policy passed last July. The list, which was published by the local group Advocates for Inclusive Education, includes the titles of 60 books being ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—A group that includes school board directors from districts across Pennsylvania is calling on the Central Bucks school board to rescind a recently-passed policy that aims to make classrooms “neutral.” When the Central Bucks school board passed Policy 321 last month, supporters ...
DOYLESTOWN—Voting districts for school board elections for the Central Bucks School District will not change this year. Here’s what we know. How were voting districts going to be changed? The school board had proposed changing districts to reflect 2020 census data. Last month, the district ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—At this week’s school board meeting, the Central Bucks School District honored two of its high school seniors for their performance in a prestigious STEM research competition. CB East senior Mason C. Matich and CB West senior Lance Yunhao Xu each won $2,000 from the Society for ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—An online petition is asking the Central Bucks School District to join a handful of other districts in the area and let students get a little extra sleep the day after the Philadelphia Eagles play in the Super Bowl. The petition on change.org is asking for a two-hour delay on ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The Central Bucks School District has received considerable attention for a new book review policy—109.2—that lets any Central Bucks taxpayer challenge—and potentially remove—books from schools. But before that policy ever took effect, district officials began using another process ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Five Central Bucks students have been nominated to U.S. military service academies including West Point, the U.S. Air Force Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy. The five are among 30 Bucks and Montgomery county students nominated by U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick. Here are the five ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The Boomerang Award is back. After a brief hiatus last year, the organization that gives out the monthly awards to students who exhibit character traits like honesty and kindness is back in business. And while that organization, CB Cares, was originally created to focus ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Six Central Bucks elementary schools received top honors on a new list of the best elementary schools in Bucks County. The list is published by Niche, a website that offers information and reviews on elementary schools and colleges throughout the US. The website ranks school ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—A librarian at CB South High School this week said he was told to remove posters featuring a quote by award-winning author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel because it violated the school district’s new policy on “neutrality.” Here’s a summary of what happened. What happened: The ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The Central Bucks School District has been working with a “pro-religious” law firm as it rolls out its controversial book review policy. In an e-mail sent to staff on Friday afternoon, the district said that it had been working with the Independence Law Center to create guidelines ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—After a protest involving potato chips was shut down last week, Doylestown’s LGBTQ community held a successful rally on Friday afternoon outside CB West High School to protest the district’s new Policy 321, which they say is targeting them. The Friday afternoon protest was held on ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Two Central Bucks high school seniors are among an elite group of 300 winners in one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competitions. CB East senior Mason C. Matich and CB West senior Lance Yunhao Xu each won $2,000 from the Society for Science’s ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Central Bucks School District officials heard example after example of how students are violating policies prohibiting them from recording in the classroom and discussed strategies to make those policies stronger. At the Jan. 11 meeting of the district’s Policy Committee, Jason ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—At its January meeting, the Central Bucks school board approved the school calendar for 2023-24. Students that year will get three days off for Thanksgiving, six days off for Christmas/winter break and three days off for spring break. When the school year starts depends on what ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—Central Bucks schools Superintendent Abram Lucabaugh knows he has some explaining to do to staff about the district’s newly passed policy to make sure that teachers are being neutral in the classroom. Policy 321, which was passed at this week’s board meeting, wants to make sure ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The Central Bucks School District approved a controversial policy on Tuesday night that will require teachers to take a neutral approach when discussing “socio-political issues” in the classroom. Supporters of the policy say it will make sure teachers are taking a neutral approach ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The Central Bucks School Board will review and possibly approve a policy next month that aims to make sure classrooms are “neutral” when it comes to political and social issues. Critics, however, say the policy’s vague language will create a chilling effect among the district’s ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—For Central Bucks schools this school year, a snow day will really be a snow day. An e-mail sent Tuesday from Central Bucks School Board Superintendent Abram Lucabaugh said that if a snowstorm or any other weather-related events force district schools to close this school year, ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The girls’ volleyball teams from CB East and CB West gave more than $5,000 they raised during their annual “Pink Out” event to the cancer program at Doylestown Health. The Pink Out event is held every October during the East-West girls’ volleyball game. The teams raise funds in ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—The Central Bucks School Board last night voted to re-elect its president and vice president to the same leadership positions for another year. The board voted 6-3 to keep Dana Hunter as president and Leigh Vlasblom as vice president for 2023. The vote followed the pattern of many ...