The board majority puts their political agenda ahead of our community and we are suffering as a district because of it. We need to elect moderate candidates to keep extremism out of our school board.
“Our end goal is that every single kid who leaves Pennridge loves this country and understands our constitution,” said board member Ricki Chaikin. “Right now, that’s not happening.”
Steve Nolan, a 30-year military veteran and published poet, recently served as a peacekeeper at the inauguration of Bucks County’s new Rainbow Room, where dozens of Moms for Liberty and Christian fundamentalists showed up to protest. In response, he wrote this poem about protecting LGBTQ kids.
The last minute addition to tonight’s meeting agenda includes a potential contract with the right-wing Vermilion Education, a business with very little experience that was recently rejected by a school district in Florida.
Both the Respect Life Committee of Saint Peter Catholic Church in Coatesville and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia have endorsed and promoted the event.
Rather than using TANF funds for families in crisis – the actual intent of the program – Pennsylvania has been siphoning off these federal dollars and is one of the nation’s most egregious offenders.
Last week’s million dollar presentation absolving the district of all accusations of LGBTQ discrimination put forth in an ACLU complaint flies in the face of my family’s experiences.
The suit is being litigated by The Thomas More Society, a conservative Christian law firm which has worked cases challenging both abortion and birth control, LGBTQ rights, and virtually all pandemic mitigation strategies.
The “sham investigation” commissioned by the right-wing school board majority was never about uncovering the truth, it was about creating a political prop for upcoming elections.
The current anti-LGBTQI+ rhetoric and legislation sends a chilling message to LGBTQI+ people that they do not matter, they are not equal, and that they should go back to being invisible.
Sunday’s event will feature local bands, student speakers, school board candidates, and organizing efforts to support LGBTQ youth and oppose books bans.
The MAGA millionaire whose PAC bankrolled right-wing school board candidates in 55 school districts across Pennsylvania last election cycle thinks people need to “protect” Central Bucks School District from outsiders’ influence. Maybe it’s his money and politics we need protecting from?
It’s no coincidence that advocates for loosening child labor restrictions also push for expanding charter schools and voucher programs.
A review of Matthew Dallek’s “Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right.”
