Community Members Warned Pennridge GOP's School Board Majority: We Will Vote You Out. And They Did

[RandySF]

“Public schools are public schools because they’re controlled by the constituents which the majority of the community voted us in,” said Jordan Blomgren at a school board meeting in May. “I don’t believe that we are abusing power. I believe that we are doing exactly what we promised the community that we would be doing.”

The ‘we’ Blomgren refers to is the board’s 8-1 GOP majority including the four directors elected in 2021: Christine Batycki, Ricki Chaikin, Bob Cormack, and of course Blomgren, herself. Their promise had been to eliminate political bias while bringing transparency and fiscal responsibility to the Pennridge School District. They failed miserably.

“I remember her saying that,” said Leah Foster-Rash, who ran for and won a seat on the board in Tuesday’s election. “To me, it was an alarming statement because you know she’s not wrong, we have an obligation to the community [but] I don’t know where it flipped to just the people who voted you in.”

Foster-Rash said that the newly elected school board majority, which in addition to her includes Chris Kaufman, Bradley Merkl-Gump, Carolyn Sciarrino, and incumbent Ron Wurz, have an obligation to work with integrity, honesty and transparency. “You don’t just represent the majority when you’re on the board. You represent everyone in every family.”


https://buckscountybeacon.com/2023/11/community-members-warned-pennridge-gops-school-board-majority-we-will-vote-you-out-and-they-did/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. This is community activism at its very best. They saw what the previous school board was doing, and how they ...

were behaving, and they didn't like it.

They worked supremely hard to dislodge "Moms for Liberty" and get more intelligent community members onto the school board.

This is how we tackle the right-wing crowd.

Kudos to the new school board!