Notable School Board Related Issues
Long-time Upper Dublin School Board member Art Levinowitz served as chair of the Pennsylvania School Boards Ass’n, 2021. Upper Dublin School Board Member reflects on six-term tenure, Reporter Online (Nov. 13, 2023) during his tenure, the impact of the COVID epidemic became his greatest challenge. Art Levinowitz, Ph. D., Testimony of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association Before the House Education Committee Regarding the Pandemic Impact on Education (needs date)
Politically heated school board elections, first in the early 1970s with the creation of the Upper Dublin Taxpayers Association (led by Roderick Fishbeck) that spearheaded defeat of a proposed 1% income tax, only to see it adopted in 1986.
Denise-Marie Santiago, Lighter Load Seen for Homeowner as Result of Wage Tax, Phila. Inquirer, p. H09 (Nov. 8, 1987).
Paul J. Lim, Teachers to Get Smaller Pay Raises; The Upper Dublin Pact was Modified and Extended, Phila. Inquirer, Feb. 11, 1993, at MC4.
The 1981 school board election was characterized as the “greatest political upheaval in Upper Dublin Township history.” Ed Rogan, Control of School Board At Stake, Phila. Inquirer (April 18, 1983)99
Kristin Vaughan, ‘Huckleberry Finn’ Rejected: The Upper Dublin Schools Superintendent Removed It From -----, Phila. Inquirer, July 16, 1996, at B3.
TO READ OR NOT TO READ BOOK BATTLES OCCUR MORE IN SCHOOLS THAN IN LIBRARIES, Morning Call, Sep 30, 1996 — Upper Dublin School District Superintendent Clair Brown said the objections began during the final weeks of the 1995-96 school year when a ...
Donna Shaw, Upper Dublin School Board Race Debates Unused Buildings, Phila. Inquirer, Nov. 3, 1983, at N. 14
Savannah Blackwell, Paul J. Lin, Money is Selling Point in School Board Races, Phila. Inquirer, May 20, 1993 at MC1
Monique El-Faizy, In Upper Dublin, School Board Race Has Been Heating Up Along Party Lines, Phila. Inquirer, May 7, 1995, at MC 12.
Jen Gomez, At Update, New School Supporters: Some At The Upper Dublin Meeting Were Opposed, Feb. 23, 1998, at B3.
Sonia Krishnan,Upper Dublin Budget Approved: Taxes Are Increased by 1.7 percent, Phila. Inquirer, June 17, 1998, at B.8.
Sonia Krishnan, Upper Dublin Gives OK to School: Tabled Last Month, Land Development Plans Got Postponed, Phila. Inquirer, Aug. 13,1998 at B.2
Sonia Krishnan, Plans for Edwards Farmhouse Due for Vote Tonight, Phila. Inquirer, Dec. 8, 1998, at B.2.
in the early 2000s and again during the imposition of remote learning during the first year of the COVID outbreak in 2020-21; emergence of UD United to oppose school closure and masking and more recent opposition to possible location of school bus terminal at “Field of Dreams” or near Fort Washington Elementary School. (Note receipt of $10,000 contribution to the 2021 school board campaign committee from Pennsylvania political action committee opposed to school closings appears to be the only significant outside political contribution to Upper Dublin school board campaigns)