{"id":40312,"date":"2025-11-21T04:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40312\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T04:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:30:08","slug":"bensalem-township-school-board-changing-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40312\/","title":{"rendered":"Bensalem Township School Board Changing Majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 It will be a changing of the guard. And a changing of the board.<\/p>\n<p>The 5-4 Republican majority on the Bensalem Township School Board will end with a Dec. 1 reorganization meeting of its school directors.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.)<\/p>\n<p>School Director Karen Winters believes that with the 8-1 Democratic majority, the school board can return to the middle school discussion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do think we can pick it up again,&#8221; Winters said. &#8220;It may work out just fine anyway.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 It will be a changing of the guard. And a changing of the board.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-40312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}