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Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick (PA) has implied that he grew up on a farm, claimed in 2022 that he had “started with nothing,” and described his parents as schoolteachers.

In reality, McCormick is the son of a college president who later became chancellor of higher

UNC Chapel Hill was literally built by enslaved people and would not admit their descendants until forced to do so by the courts a century after the Civil War, and still does not enroll Black people proportionate to their state population. Republicans want to kill diversity

As Peter Greene covers how PA's new 'Right-Wing School Board Org might operate' it draws some huge similarities what Heidi Beedle reported in Nov 2023 in Colorado
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It should be a bigger national story that the state senator forcing these schemes on NE voters—to avoid a ballot drive result this fall—is the mother of Betsy DeVos’s national comms director.

Or at least these details should enter into coverage of the voucher “movement.”

It's bad enough that Republican state legislators are rolling back child labor protections, now they want to end lunch breaks for kids. I'm fighting for the Child Labor Protection Act to make sure we crack down on employers who violate child labor laws. msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-…

Jesse Watters, the bland, store-brand version of fascist TV hosts, is trying very hard to intimidate the Trump jury.

That is a crime.

Last I checked, Jesse Watters works in Alvin Bragg's jurisdiction. Maybe the DA should look into this.

A holy war is breaking out over the future of Speaker Mike Johnson, with Charlie Kirk using his show to accuse Johnson of being a phony Christian while pastor Jack Hibbs says Johnson is under attack from phony Christians. bit.ly/3JnUfZ4

Check it out! The Education Wars got a starred review in Publishers Weekly! *It’s an invaluable primer on what’s motivating the public education culture wars* publishersweekly.com/9781620978542

Police departments in Arizona have received 1000s of calls from schools of student threats to bring a gun to school, harm a teacher or target a classmate

L. M. Boyd and I took a deep dive into the difficult questions around gun threats in schools:

tinyurl.com/bddmp6wu

what’s happening, besides this very good reporting, is a power play in which a network of local operatives is collaborating with a network of billionaires replace public stuff with private stuff they control. Forget race, party, school. Think donors, politicians, money

Florida May Provide a Window Into How Pennsylvania’s New Right-Wing School Board Org Might Operate | The Pennsylvania School Directors Coalition is tight-lipped about its funding, its board, and whether they are working with the Independence Law Center. buckscountybeacon.com/2024/04/florid…

This is about picking off Republicans in the primaries and replacing them with MAGA voucher supporters.

Same strategy the DeVos people used in Iowa and Texas etc

“The easiest way to make the US into a Christian theocracy is to just re-write American history so that Americans grow up believing that the founders intended the US to be a Christian theocracy.”

Bruce Wilson for Talk2Action
1/5/2008

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Meanwhile, here in Lancaster PA:

Here’s Dayspring Christian Academy’s Fall of 2016 Appeal to Heaven cover art and a reference to Lance Wallnau and those Seven Mountains within Head of School Dr Mike Myers opening essay.

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CURMUDGUCATION: PA: Far Right Law Group Comes To Meadville curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2024/04/pa-far…

#BucksCounty MAGA Millionaire Paul Martino is hosting an event in Florida April 19 featuring Peter Thiel, James Lindsay, Oklahoma Education Head Ryan Walters, & others. The event is officially endorsed by former retired Lt. General Michael Flynn's organization America's Future.

From MeredithWillse: An attorney for the Independence Law Center emailed a nearly 500-word speech to Red Lion Area School Board President Stephen Simpson praising anti-LGBTQ+ policies.

Simpson read it nearly verbatim before a vote at the next meeting. yorkdispatch.com/story/news/edu…