From book bans to gender-neutral bathrooms, culture wars have found a battlefield in Western Pennsylvania schools. National politics increasingly are influencing school boards, as party lines are splitting members over hot button issues such as sex education, trans rights and the appropriateness of classroom materials. School boards’ once-marginally attended monthly
Area schools are raising money and collecting donated musical instruments for Elizabeth Forward School District after a fire over the weekend destroyed the high school auditorium, choir and band rooms,