The new comment changes come after years of groups or individuals from outside the district disrupting meetings and targeting or harassing specific board members.
Reason and common sense are guiding decisions again as the school board turns to teachers and administrators – not right-wing Christian groups or Moms for Liberty – to regulate classrooms and school policy.
Student mental health has been a priority for state lawmakers and the Shapiro administration in the first half of his term.
Congress created the agency, and Congress is the final referee on the match.
Lower Salford Township’s Maureen Kratz’s announcement that she created a “Right to Know Souderton” website to help empower frustrated parents was the highlight of Thursday’s school board meeting.
The district “has engaged in a pattern of conduct designed to silence its critics,” said ACLU of Pennsylvania Deputy Legal Director Sara Rose.
Anti-public education activists and their billionaire backers saw many of their efforts to privatize education and prop up extremist candidates across the country rebuffed – even in deep red states.
The 2023 school board election that swept Moms for Liberty-backed MAGA candidates at the polls illustrates the power of community organizing in defense of public education.
“The new curriculum combines what Philadelphia School District calls ‘word knowledge’ and ‘world knowledge,'” says Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo, a clinical professor of literacy studies at Drexel University.
Proposed funding cuts in the draft budget “would impact our ability to do similar investigations and ensure student safety in the future,” said Jennifer Garman, CEO of Philadelphia-based Disability Rights Pennsylvania.
Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate me, what did I ever do” and slamming his hands on a desk, according to one person who was briefed on what occurred.
Critics of the potential local 287(g) partnership raised concerns over racial profiling, wrongful arrests, lack of due process, and community safety. However, supporters also turned out raising the issues of human trafficking, crime, and alleged treason.
At the first two hearings, some folks brought receipts, and some brought excuses, while the cyber charters themselves declined to appear at all.
Gallego travels to Pennsylvania’s First Congressional District and will be joined by Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie, who is running against Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, “to engage the constituents Fitzpatrick is ignoring as he backs his party’s reckless budget resolution.”
