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.
Initiatives like Gender-Inclusive Biology, Project Biodiversity, and Welcoming Schools offer resources to help adapt curriculum to acknowledge and celebrate variation in the living world.
In the face of increasing attacks, some librarians have chosen to leave the profession altogether, while others continue to go to work in fear.
Despite public outcry, the board approved the immediate use of Vermilion’s ninth grade social studies course, but pushed the balance of revised curricula to the 2024-25 school year.
Central Bucks is under fire for allegedly creating a toxic environment for LGBTQ+ students, vindictively targeting a teacher, and spending more than $1 million for reputation laundering.
Pennridge’s new social studies curriculum will force teachers to indoctrinate students with a whitewashed, nationalistic revisionist history.
Unfortunately, there is a national, well-funded right-wing movement underfoot that believes it can inflame people’s fears and prejudices to hijack and undermine public education in a desperate attempt to seize political power.
“Jenna did not tell us to go up to the board and speak about this. That is absolutely a false statement,” said Pennridge Social Studies teacher Kevin Wills in response to Hogan’s wild accusations.
As students head back to campus this month, one in four undergraduates suffer from food insecurity.
“It’s easy to mock this legislation because it’s so inane and embarrassing — and we have,” said Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA).
If ICE approves the 287(g) “task force model” application and the sheriff moves forward without the commissioners’ green light, legal action will be imminent and “Bucks County taxpayers will be on the hook.”
The Michigan state lawmaker with a rising national profile is running for U.S. Senate. She also has ties to Bucks County.
The Arizona senator also discussed how Democrats need to stop being “too effing safe all the time” and do a better job of reaching out to voters and expanding the party’s base.
“But without federal funding, the road ahead becomes more challenging — not just in sustaining what we do now, but in continuing to grow and innovate,” said Bill Marrazzo, President & CEO for WHYY.
