Pennsylvania’s Central Bucks School District was one of the places where Moms for Liberty lost big in the 2023 elections, with a right-wing school board majority swept out and replaced with Democrats. On Monday night, Karen Smith—who had been serving on the board in the Democratic minority prior to this election—was sworn in as the school board president, part of the wave of change from the anti-LGBTQ+, pro-book-banning board voted out in November. She made a powerful symbolic choice when it came to what book she’d be sworn in on: not the Bible or another religious book, but a stack of frequently banned books.
I hope between this at Central Bucks and Pennridge also getting rid of the MAGA members and canceling the Vermillion “education” contract that all my local school districts will finally be out of the national news for being off the rails.
I don’t have kids, but I do care about kids and education, so I was so relieved to see these people get kicked to the curb where they belong.
Central Bucks just needs to fix that crooked $500,000 severance package and “legal immunity” pushed through last minute for the nutty superintendent that only worked there 2 years and supported this stuff.