The firm, Vermilion Education LLC, was founded four months ago by Jordan Adams. Adams, a Michigan resident, is a graduate and former employee of Hillsdale College, a private conservative Christian college that has drawn criticism for whitewashing American history.
At a recent Pennsbury School Board meeting, parents and taxpayers spent 90 minutes arguing that a new racial equity policy and plan should never have been approved.
The 20 who spoke out against the plan, unanimously adopted by the board on May 20, described it as part of an insidious and subversive implementation of critical race theory.
“You may not be calling it ‘critical race theory,’ and are disguising it as social and emotional learning, but we are not fooled,” said school board candidate Jen Spillane, of Yardley.
Debate over critical race theory has been a divisive, and misunderstood, topic at school board meetings throughout Bucks County and nationwide as calls continue for reforms nationwide, pushed to the forefront by the Black Lives Matter movement. Part of those changes have been a demand for better student equity and inclusion in public school policy and curriculum.
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Unofficial counts on the Bucks County website mid-day on May 19 showed the top four vote getters in the Democratic primary were Dawn Curran, Adrienne King, Carolyn Sciarrino and David O Donnell, moving them forward to be on the Democratic ticket in the fall.Â
On the Republican side, the top four vote-getters were Robert F. Cormack, Christine Batycki, Jordan Blomgren and Ricki Norley Chaikin, moving them forward to be on the Republican ticket in the fall. The four were the Pennridge Republican Committee s endorsed candidates in the primary.
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Candidates for school board can cross-file in the primaries on both party ballots, which several, but not all of the candidates, did. None won on both tickets.