This Bucks County District serves as a warning to the nation about the consequences of far-right takeovers of school boards.
Buyer beware: Students are lab rats, teachers believed to be replaceable, and in the end the costs and risks of AI like Khanmigo may always outweigh its potential benefits for learning and teaching.
History is a conversation, unending and always open to new discussion and insights. What Hillsdale is pushing is a completely other view of what history even is, a view that looks remarkably like indoctrination.
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.
PA FIRE’s goal is to create “a groundbreaking, statewide initiative to protect immigrant rights, expand vital services and drive long-term systems change across the commonwealth.”
“Families are feeling the pressure, and so are the systems meant to support them,” said Elizabeth Zbinden, Food Program Manager with Bucks County Opportunity Council.
Our crime? Journalism.
As PA Senate Republicans hold the budget hostage, domestic violence shelters are forced to furlough staff and turn away victims putting Pennsylvanians at risk of injury or death.
With elections next month, Central Bucks School Board’s Karen Smith reminds community members of the chaos and divisiveness Republican book banners inflicted on the district just a few years ago.
