William Broun, Author at Saucon Source

Business • Community • Family • Government • Opinion

Let’s Think Proactively About Pedestrian Safety in Hellertown: Op-Ed

3 weeks ago

5 min read

We need to think of it as our responsibility to look harder and faster and more attentively than the drunks and deer and dumb people who frequently don’t do what they’re supposed to do when crossing Main Street.

Community • Family • Opinion • Schools

Bill Broun’s SV School Board Dispatch: October 2024

4 weeks ago

by William Broun

5 min read

As a Saucon Valley School Board member, the work doesn’t stop. Ever. Citizens complain. Budgets creak. Lawsuits occur. A kid does something stupid to another kid at the middle school. But you just plough ahead, keeping your head...

Community • Family • Opinion • Schools

Op-Ed: Racist Behavior by Students Not a Hopeless Problem

1 month ago

by William Broun

6 min read

Schools can and should reinforce the values of tolerance and teach accurate history, but the real work of preventing racist beliefs from taking root in children's minds begins at home, writes Saucon Valley School Board member...

Community • Opinion • Schools

Op-Ed: SV Residents Deserve Good Faith Negotiations Over Vo-Tech Agreement

2 months ago

by William Broun

6 min read

The current agreement (between the Saucon Valley, Bethlehem Area and Northampton Area school districts) expires next year, and the Bethlehem Area School District-dominated Joint Committee that oversees BAVTS has set a proposed...

Community • Family • Opinion • Schools

A ‘Revealing’ Decision: SV School Board Dispatch, May 2024

6 months ago

by William Broun

5 min read

Saucon Valley School Board member Bill Broun writes about the board's decision this week to enter a five-year commitment with the top-grade McGraw Hill mathematics program 'Reveal' as part of its broader efforts to make...