The former and short-lived Moms for Liberty PA state director is still an anti-woke culture warrior on a crusade against public education.
These are taxpayer dollars taken with the understanding that they would be spent on educating students, but instead, well, they’re not.
They are not just MAGA culture warriors banning books and fomenting anti-LGBTQ hysteria and hate. They are part of a national network of right-wing activists on a crusade to dismantle public education.
SPLC frames the rise of these groups as a “reemergence of the attack on inclusive schools” and position the current culture war panic in the long history of such panics.
This group’s money is building a far-right infrastructure state by state that is undermining electoral democracy, dismantling the separation of church and state, attacking public education, and eroding workers’ rights.
“Our end goal is that every single kid who leaves Pennridge loves this country and understands our constitution,” said board member Ricki Chaikin. “Right now, that’s not happening.”
The suit is being litigated by The Thomas More Society, a conservative Christian law firm which has worked cases challenging both abortion and birth control, LGBTQ rights, and virtually all pandemic mitigation strategies.
Pennsylvania taxpayers are overpaying for a form of schooling that simply does not deliver the results that even approach what we get from our (underfunded) public school system.
David Valesky, who thinks Black Lives Matter is a “hate group” and LGBTQ books are “evil,” believes he has God on his side in his book banning crusade and that trumps law.
There are 480 higher education leaders from across the country who have signed a letter opposing “undue government intrusion in the lives of those who learn, live and work” on their campuses.
“We should be expanding access, not taking it away. Every child deserves a fair and equitable start, and I’ll fight in Congress to protect programs like Head Start that make that possible,” said Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie, a Democratic candidate for Congress in PA-01.
The Bucks County Sheriff’s office has an application pending to participate in ICE’s 287(g) “task force model”, which essentially makes local law enforcement officers de facto ICE agents.
There were hundreds of rallies and protests against the Trump Administration across the country Saturday.
The goal of the proposed legislation is to protect women who receive abortions and the doctors and nurses who provide this reproductive health care.
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