The district’s Republican-majority school board keeps looking for, and finding, a new low.
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.
Funding is running out for a federal rental assistance program, putting families across the commonwealth at risk of eviction.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates this budget will cut $698 billion in Medicaid spending, causing approximately 8.6 million people to lose their health care coverage. It will also result in 3 million less people a month receiving SNAP food stamps benefits.
“I commend the commissioners for standing up for the rule of law, and calling [Sheriff] Fred Harran out on his half-baked scheme to use county resources to do ICE’s deportation work,” said Democratic Sheriff candidate Danny Ceisler.
A mere 25.8% of registered voters in the county voted yesterday.
To some extent, President Donald Trump looms over the races, as progressive incumbents — Philly DA Larry Krasner and Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey — have vowed to resist his conservative agenda.
