“There’s a really important role that these ‘fringe’ groups play in pushing the envelope, in keeping things moving ever-rightward. And then these things, by and by, show up in much more mainstream parts of the right,” said Joyce.
These are taxpayer dollars taken with the understanding that they would be spent on educating students, but instead, well, they’re not.
This classic work holds its relevance 60 years later.
“What I’m bringing to the table here is the inside information…the fox is in the henhouse,” said the education consultant with no education degrees who was recently hired by Pennridge School District.
Ridge Network organizers Laura Foster and Adrienne King discussed the right-wing school board’s journey into dangerous territories that place children’s education and mental health at risk.
Sheila Armstrong tells the Bucks County Beacon why she joined, and why she is not concerned with criticisms that the group champions reactionary, bigoted, and conspiratorial positions.
Campaign for Our Shared Future and Education Law Center-PA distributed forbidden fiction, as well as information about fighting book bans and pushing back against classroom and curriculum censorship.
Extreme, pro-censorship authoritarians like Moms for Liberty are ringing in July 4 by calling for book bans. That’s un-American and wrong.
A school board run by Moms for Liberty members, who secretly seek advice from a right-wing Christian law firm, has subverted the First Amendment and effectively banned books under the pretense of weeding out old, obsolete titles.
“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.
