William's Latest Articles
Let’s Think Proactively About Pedestrian Safety in Hellertown: Op-Ed
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.
Bill Broun’s SV School Board Dispatch: October 2024
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 down and being polite even when you don’t feel like it, working with these once-strangers-now-neighbors across from you and try to work through the problems.
Op-Ed: Racist Behavior by Students Not a Hopeless Problem
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 Bill Broun.
Op-Ed: SV Residents Deserve Good Faith Negotiations Over Vo-Tech Agreement
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 new agreement to run for another 30 years. But Saucon Valley School Board members have deep reservations about the proposed agreement and are asking for good faith negotiations with the BAVTS board.
A ‘Revealing’ Decision: SV School Board Dispatch, May 2024
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 scholastic excellence a renewed focus.