OPINION: Will Former WWE Executive Linda McMahon Pile Drive the Department of Education?
Congress created the agency, and Congress is the final referee on the match.
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.
For me, like so many others, public school provided me access to a better future, writes Tabitha Dell’Angelo.
From the early colonial era “Body of Liberties” to today’s “Moms for Liberty,” theocrats for centuries have proclaimed their “freedom” in the name of God to punish and oppress persons whom they dislike.
If SCOTUS takes this case and finds in favor of St. Isidore, all taxpayers will foot the bill for indoctrination, whether they or their elected representatives like it or not.
“It is heartbreaking to see Congress embrace a budget bill that strips meals and health care away from children and families to fund massive tax breaks for the super wealthy and an unaccountable private school voucher program,” said PSEA President Aaron Chapin.
The Bucks County Beacons’s reporting on Senate Bill 780 was incomplete and inaccurate, argues the head of the Bucks County Democratic Committee in an OpEd.
Education reporter Peter Greene breaks down Mahmoud v. Taylor.
“Head Start has been called one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in American history and continuing this comprehensive program is a reason for hope,” said Adam Clark, region advocacy coordinator for Pennsylvania State Education Association.
“This bill would allow you to set aside any state law, you could pollute the air as much as you want, you could pollute the water as much as you want, you could do anything essentially that you wanted that would ordinarily violate the law,” said former Secretary for PA’s Department of Environmental Protection David Hess.