This Bucks County District serves as a warning to the nation about the consequences of far-right takeovers of school boards.
Members of the Pennridge community gained valuable insight into the methodology being used by extremist anti-government groups to destroy public education – and what can be done about it.
Democracy Forward’s Skye Perryman talks about the looming threats that the organized and well-funded right poses to public education and which tools are useful in fighting that threat.
“Censorship must be called out for what it is. Removing, restricting, or imposing policy and intimidation on school librarians that limits the selection of materials will harm our students,” said Pennsylvania School Librarians Association President-elect Sarah DeMaria.
Books can provide readers with places of connection, build empathy, and overcome division. Banning books accomplished the opposite.
Emails retrieved from RTK requests reveal the extent and scope of board members’ attempts to push more right-wing indoctrination into classrooms.
AFT Pennsylvania President Arthur Steinberg says voucher programs are “harmful,” “anti-public education,” and they “leave kids behind.”
Library books, a lawsuit, and Right-To-Know requests were blamed for the ever escalating legal bills, but the exact price tag remains a tightly guarded mystery.
Once again the Moms for Liberty school board majority continues to push its politically motivated agenda with its proposed athletics policy.
The goal of the proposed legislation is to protect women who receive abortions and the doctors and nurses who provide this reproductive health care.
Elon Musk has called on the FBI to investigate ActBlue and recently called Indivisible criminals.
“That’s my only means to commute,” said Antonio Deleon, a 38-year-old disabled Levittown resident who lives on a fixed income. He uses it to get to class and for volunteer work in Philadelphia.
About $1.6 billion in federal funding is at risk for Pennsylvania, with SNAP and Title I school free lunches among the hardest hit programs.
“For all intents and purposes, the funding for the rest of this fiscal year is unavailable,” said Maryam Phillips, executive director of Hosting Solutions and Library Consulting (HSLC).
