These groups are the creation of deep-pocketed, “dark money” conservative networks, not “grassroots” advocates.
The event, sponsored by The Braver Angels of Southeast Pennsylvania and League of Women Voters of Bucks County, is to promote dialogue and strengthen community relationships.
“The executive order is not law and cannot change existing law. The orders even say on them they do not have the force of law,” said Kristina Moon, a senior attorney at the Education Law Center.
The right-wing law firm Thomas More Society, along with their plaintiffs which include South Side Area School District and Knoch School District, and Republican State Representatives Barbara Gleim and Aaron Bernstine, want to make discrimination OK again in the commonwealth.
The once-powerful group’s internal turmoil and diminishing size and status may be signs that the school privatization movement is now a fully right-wing enterprise.
It’s just one of the ways lawmakers are trying to insert Judeo-Christian doctrine into public education.
Pennsylvania is currently the nation’s leading state for cyber charters, with 13 charters serving nearly 60,000 students.
Both sides are declaring victory.
Now that ICE agents have the green light to conduct operations at or near schools, school playgrounds, and bus stops, it is critical for districts to understand the law and have procedures in place to protect their students.
These groups are the creation of deep-pocketed, “dark money” conservative networks, not “grassroots” advocates.
Fitzpatrick has been avoiding town halls for years before it became so popular with the rest of the Republican Party.
At the very least, these Republicans ought to stop hiding and host public town halls to explain their positions.
“Weaponizing a 200-year-old law to facilitate mass deportations is pure xenophobia and would repeat one of the darkest episodes in United States history,” said Erol Kekic, senior vice president of programs at Church World Service.
Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick’s First Congressional District has an estimated 5,201 federal employees.
