Owen J. Roberts, Perkiomen Valley, Boyertown, Spring-Ford, Pottstown, Pottsgrove, Phoenixville, Upper Perkiomen, Methacton and Daniel Boone school boards re-organize for 2024.
Few would question that this past year of the pandemic has been a difficult one for schools, and for the school boards that oversee them.
Through uncounted stormy meetings, difficult decisions, and always someone unhappy about them, each school board has tried to navigate its best course for both safety and optimizing education.
Perhaps that explains why incumbents comprise only a little more than 15 percent of the 64 candidates running in the May 18 primary for the 38 open seats on the nine school boards in The Mercury coverage area.
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May 3 is the last day to register to vote in this year s primary.
The eight other members of the Upper Perkiomen School Board joined the more than 4,600 people who have signed a petition calling for Raeann Hofkin to resign from the school board.
With the exception of board member Keith McCarrick, who said at the start of the meeting he would not take a position on Hofkin s retweeting of transphobic memes about Dr. Rachel Levine, all other board members condemned her actions during Thursday night s school board meeting.
Once every board member had spoken and asked Hofkin to resign, McCarrick said, he too, is calling on Hofkin to resign.
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School Board President Melanie Cunningham also announced that effective immediately Hofkin has been removed from all school board committees on which she sat.