Tense Pa. school board fights center on COVID and race

Tense Pa. school board fights center on COVID and race - WHYY

In the wake of widespread virtual classes, candidates for school board are in the last days of the most intense, divisive races they've ever seen.

A Bucks County dad angered by COVID-19 closures gave $500,000 ...

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The School Culture Wars: 'You Have Brought Division to Us'

From mask mandates to critical race theory and gender identity, educators are besieged. “You are just trying to keep everything from ...

Liberal and moderate candidates take control of school boards in ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Voters in some of the highest-profile school board elections across the U.S. rebuked conservative candidates in local ...

Masks off: how US school boards became 'perfect battlegrounds' for ...

The anti-mask school board protests in August follow a wave of protests and heated debates about “critical race theory” (CRT) that consumed ...

School Board Recalls Force Contentious Fights About Race, Virus ...

Confrontations over masks, vaccinations and race are playing out in school districts across the country, where conservative activists are seeking to oust local ...

Voters in tense York Suburban race reject conservative candidates

The voters chose four members of the board, rejecting candidates who were vocal in their opposition to mask mandates and critical race ...

The GOP Pulled Out the Stops to Flip School Boards. It Didn't Work.

“That was idyllic compared to this.” As Kassa sought reelection this fall, a local venture capitalist flooded 60 Pennsylvania school board races ...

A voter's guide to the tense Central York school board race

As the Nov. 2 Central York School Board election approaches, tensions are running high for a race that many of the candidates are calling highly politicized.

'High stakes' school board elections are already influencing 2024 ...

Conservative board members won a 6-3 majority in the Central Bucks School District outside Philadelphia in 2021. Passionate fights over library ...

Here's what we know about Paul Martino's involvement in this year's ...

Two years ago, Paul Martino poured $500,000 into Pennsylvania school board races in what the Bucks County venture capitalist and GOP donor ...

Tears, politics and money: School boards become battle zones

In Rapid City, South Dakota, and Kalispell, Montana, nonpartisan school board races devolved into political warfare as conservative candidates, ...

The legal requirement in public high schools to include ethnic studies, such as African ... Board of the Boston University Medical Center (H-39154) ...

National school board group regrets taking sides in debate ... - KPIC

WASHINGTON (TND) — A national school board association said it should not have taken sides in a political debate last year as arguments ...

Why schools are taking center stage in the culture wars | CNN Politics

The recall, which has split local Democrats, has combined genuine grassroots discontent over extended school closings during the coronavirus ...

October 28th Playbook - PoliticsPA

Melania Trump campaigned in PA on Tuesday, while a Trafalgar Group poll shows Trump leading Biden by less than 1 point in PA. Here is the Playbook.

Florida May Provide a Window Into How Pennsylvania's New Right ...

Meanwhile, Pennsylvania School Directors Coalition founder Christina Brussalis is tight-lipped about who's funding the organization, ...

'A Terrible Price': The Deadly Racial Disparities of Covid-19 in America

21, this year. Some 20,000 people, floor-length ball gowns and tuxedos required, packed into the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center ...

Critical race theory uproar sparks a new wave of school board recalls

Four of the seven members of the Mequon-Thiensville School District Board of Education in Wisconsin are being targeted over the district's ...

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