Pennsylvania is currently the nation’s leading state for cyber charters, with 13 charters serving nearly 60,000 students.
On March 6 at the Spring Mill Country Club in Ivyland, the Doylestown-based nonprofit will hold a dinner and awards presentation to celebrate young people, their achievements, and a decade of service programs.
This was part of a nationwide response in locales across the country to oppose Trump’s actions since taking office, which legal scholars say are putting the country in a “constitutional crisis.”
Both sides are declaring victory.
Downer, who recently stepped down as president of the local NAACP, reflects on her life in Bucks County, from when the Klu Klux Klan were burning crosses in Linconia where she grew up to when white conservative Pennridge parents objected to Black authors being included in curriculum.
Its “Essential Policy Solutions” paints a stark picture of the right-wing vision for each state, with proposed legislation to dismantle regulations, bolster the fossil fuel industry, gut funding for public education, curtail voting rights, and much more.
“I am an eternal optimist. I know change doesn’t come easily and setbacks come with the territory. I believe that the work I am doing is helping to move the ball toward social justice.”
From local school boards to Washington, the right is doubling down on its efforts to erase Black history. They’ll fail.
Learn about the role Christian nationalism and the Christian right play in this broader, and ascendent authoritarian and fascist movement that has democracy in its crosshairs – both in the U.S. and abroad.
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.”
