Pennsylvania school board directors condemn Central Bucks

Scott Overland, vice chairman of the Phoenixville Space Faculty Board in Chester County and one of many signers of the letter, mentioned he believes Central Bucks passing such “aggressive, hateful” insurance policies is opening the door for different districts to comply with its lead.

“It’s not a Central Bucks downside. It is a downside for all of us on this state and on this nation,” Deardorff mentioned. “We as public faculty board administrators should be selling public faculty. These teams are attacking public training.”

Deardorff mentioned she’s additionally involved about how the college board is spending taxpayer cash. The district has lately employed a public relations agency, Devine and Companions, for an estimated $15,000 a month, and the Duane Morris legislation agency, of which lawyer Invoice McSwain is paid $940 an hour, to evaluate the ACLU’s criticism.

Now that the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court docket dominated that the state’s funding system is unconstitutional, Overland mentioned, districts ought to use their power to seek out fairness in the best way colleges are funded, and work on making colleges safer.

“So each time [Central Bucks sends] out an e mail, they put up a coverage, they spend an agenda merchandise on one in all these divisive cultural points that serves no different goal however to tear aside the district, to create divides, to exclude college students who’re simply making an attempt to determine who they’re, they’re actively hurting not solely public training, however their complete communities and our complete commonwealth.”

The varsity administrators are from the college districts of Allentown Metropolis, Bethel Park, Bethlehem Space, Central Bucks, Downingtown Space, East Stroudsburg Space, Methacton, Norristown Space, Octorara Space, Owen J Roberts, Perkiomen Valley, Philadelphia, Phoenixville Space, Pittsburgh Public Faculties, Pottstown, South Fayette Township, Spring-Ford Space, Stroudsburg Space, Higher Darby, Higher Dublin, Higher Moreland Township, West Chester Space, William Penn, Deanne Moyer Morris, and Wissahickon.