{"id":5430,"date":"2025-10-17T07:49:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/5430\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T07:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:49:15","slug":"2025-voting-guide-bcsd-budget-board-of-education-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/5430\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Voting Guide &#8211; BCSD Budget &#038; Board of Education Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Budget-website-photo-2025-3-300x187.png\" alt=\"student in cap and gown holding up fingers as peace signs\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-65400 size-medium\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The annual budget\u00a0vote\u00a0and board\u00a0election\u00a0will be held at Bethlehem Central High School on Tuesday, May 20 from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. in Gym A. To\u00a0vote, you must be at least 18 years old, a U.S. citizen and a resident of the Bethlehem Central School District for at least 30 days prior to the\u00a0vote. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bethlehemschools.org\/voting-information-2026-26-budget-vote-and-board-election\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Information about absentee\/early voting can be found here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What will I be voting on?<\/p>\n<p>What does the ballot look like?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bethlehemschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2025-Bethlehem-CSD-Sample-Ballot_Annual-Budget-Vote-and-Election-1.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A sample ballot for the May 20 vote can be viewed here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please note: The school district shares its ballot and voting location with the Bethlehem Public Library. The library budget is Proposition 2 on the ballot. There is also a library Board of Trustees election.<\/p>\n<p>Kids Vote Too, Art Show and Music Ensembles<\/p>\n<p>If you plan to vote in the evening, stay for a few minutes to enjoy artwork and music from our students. Elementary students in grades K-5 can participate in Kids Vote Too, from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bethlehemschools.org\/kids-vote-too-senior-art-show-and-music-ensembles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More information about Kids Vote Too, Art Show and Music Ensembles can be found here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The annual budget\u00a0vote\u00a0and board\u00a0election\u00a0will be held at Bethlehem Central High School on Tuesday, May 20 from 7 a.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-5430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430","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=5430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}