BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA — It will be a changing of the guard. And a changing of the board.
The 5-4 Republican majority on the Bensalem Township School Board will end with a Dec. 1 reorganization meeting of its school directors.
The meeting will the switch of the school board majority to an 8-1 Democratic majority as longtime School Director Marc Cohen, who lost his re-election bid in the November general election, exits.
Several Democratic school board members had told Patch they were furious that the Republican 5-4 school board majority voted against rehabilitating the current middle school and building a new one, basically wiping out any options before Election Day.
The school board unanimously approved moving all 6th-grade students to an expanded middle school. (The township currently operates the Robert K. Shafer and Cecelia Snyder middle schools.)
School Director Karen Winters believes that with the 8-1 Democratic majority, the school board can return to the middle school discussion.
“I do think we can pick it up again,” Winters said. “It may work out just fine anyway.”