GOP School Board Candidate Accused of Creating Bogus Academic ‘Network’

A Republican school board candidate in Pennsylvania is accused of inventing a bogus academic “network” to attack books promoting diversity.

Christopher Bressi, backed by the conservative group Moms for Liberty, is seeking to flip the Downingtown Area School District to the GOP. And according to The Philadelphia Inquirer, he’s relied heavily on something called the “Society of College Medicine” to do that.

Members of the school board began receiving emails from the “society” back in the summer of 2021, warning of books that had supposedly been “red flagged” by academic experts. Signed by the “Violations Department,” one such email warned school district administrators to remove White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo from the reading list. Subsequent emails flagged other supposed violations for “extremely divisive” reading material, with the “society” writing that the school district had been ranked “in the bottom tier of all schools we assess globally.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.