The group, which claims to be about “parent rights,” has ties to the January 6 insurrection and Christian Nationalists. They also have a chapter in Bucks County.
We’re in the midst of an assault on public education that rivals the reactionary panics of the Red Scare and the McCarthy era.
The latest iteration of book bans target disfavored viewpoints by attempting to silence them in a manner that plainly violates the First Amendment rights of teachers, librarians, and students.
My school’s outlook on certain books is heartbreaking, and heavily influenced by outside politics that have no place in schools.
Teachers Ben Hodge and Patricia Jackson talk about organizing, challenging, and defeating right-wing book bans and other assaults on public education.
“The dark money infrastructure attacking public schools was built over decades,” the report argues, “before the current manufactured outrage was directed at centers of public learning.”
The other states with the most incidents of banning are Texas, Florida, and Tennessee.
When we decide to take books off the shelves because they don’t represent your family’s values, we are creating leaders who will be ill-informed, less compassionate, and less empathic.
PFLAG Bucks County takes on Banned Books Week in relation to Central Bucks School District’s recent library policy change.
He is also enlisting FBI, AFT, ICE, DEA, and U.S. Marshals Service agents to assist in his plans to purge the city of its homeless population and crack down on crime.
“When communities lose access to independent journalism, transparency erodes, civic engagement declines, and government becomes less accountable to the people it serves,” said Rabb.
Chester County state Rep. Paul Friel is the prime sponsor of the Pennsylvania’s Officer Visibility Act and the proposed bill has seven co-sponsors so far (though none from Bucks County).
“All of Christ for All of Life,” Hegseth wrote on X, reposting a CNN interview with Doug Wilson and other CREC pastors.
Much of the night in Richlandtown was spent talking about topics such as health care, jobs, housing, and public service.
