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Maddie Hanna

Reporter · US

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Sep 28, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Maddie Hanna

    The Pennsbury School District hid a student’s gender identity from parents, a Christian legal group alleges (opens the original)

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    A conservative Christian legal group is asking the U.S. Department of Education to investigate the Pennsbury School District, after a mother and father said the district violated their rights by hiding their child’s use of a different name and pronouns for nearly three school years. After parents confronted the Bucks County district last year, it agreed to use the student’s given name at graduation, but didn’t change its policy to require that parents be notified of a student’s name chan

  2. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Maddie Hanna

    Lower Merion picks a new school board member after 17 people applied for the vacant seat (opens the original)

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    The Lower Merion school board on Tuesday selected a Tredyffrin/Easttown teacher and former Narberth Borough Council member to fill a seat left vacant by a school board member who was arrested. The board picked Muna Elshakhs from a group of 17 applicants, after interviewing her and fellow applicant Andrea Gosfield during a special meeting Tuesday. The board had selected four candidates to be interviewed Tuesday, but two withdrew their names from consideration before the meeting. The board did not

  3. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Maddie Hanna

    Bensalem school district selects a longtime administrator as its next superintendent (opens the original)

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    The Bensalem Township School District has selected longtime district administrator Victoria Velasquez as its next superintendent, after its previous superintendent resigned this spring amid a budget shortfall. Velasquez, who has worked for the district for 12 years, is expected to be appointed superintendent at a school board meeting Sept. 23, the Bucks County Intermediate Unit said in a statement Friday. “I am deeply honored and grateful for the opportunity to continue serving the Bensalem To

  4. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Maddie Hanna

    Lower Merion asks court to deny parents’ ‘fearmongering’ request to opt out of computers (opens the original)

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    The Lower Merion School District has urged a federal judge to deny a request from parents to opt their children out of school-assigned computers, accusing them of “fearmongering” about technology in schools and abusing the legal process to get their way. In a filing in U.S. District Court, lawyers for the district and school board said seven families who sued the district last month were trying to force the district to align with their preferred approach to instruction. “There is no consti

  5. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Maddie Hanna

    Schools around Philly are no longer giving laptops to kindergartners and scaling back on screen time. It’s a tech backlash. (opens the original)

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    As her children start second and third grades in the Colonial School District, Elise LaChapelle expects they will spend no more than 20 to 30 minutes a day on their Chromebooks — limits the Montgomery County district has announced to parents. Colonial also no longer allows elementary school students to take their laptops home at night. “That seemed to be an acknowledgment on the district’s end that changes were needed,” LaChapelle said. Amid a spreading backlash to screens in classrooms,

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