Pennsylvania Department of Education and CDC are holding public school students and parents hostage.

They’re using school boards as enforcers, coupled with threatened withholding of school funding, to force compliance with their demands.

Email sent to Rep. Kerry Benninghoff this evening after attending Bellefonte school board meeting.

I attended the Bellefonte Area School District board meeting this evening, with a group of other parents involved in the Pa. Coalition for Informed Consent.

I’m confused by some of the information presented by a board member, Mrs. Weaver possibly, or the district superintendent, on the topic of a new “health and safety plan.”

All the board members wore masks and I don’t live in that district so I’m not as familiar with the members as I am with the SCASD board.

I can write in more detail about what I heard, but here are the information pieces and the questions they raise.

1. The board member or superintendent said that the board is required by the Pa. Department of Education to submit a new “health and safety plan” to PDE by July 30 in order to obtain $3.1 million in funding over the next three years.

I couldn’t tell if that funding is special Covid-related funding or the ordinary state allocation, but the speaker said that the PDE rules allow for “local control” of the terms of the plans, but also require that the local board adopt CDC guidance, or else the district won’t get the $3.1 million.

Apparently the PDE instructions for the filing of the health and safety plan also requires the school board to collect data about the vaccination status of its employees, and report that data to PDE in the filing.

The board member seemed to think they could do that through an “anonymous” Google form, but did not mention HIPAA compliance/ medical privacy legal obligations, the security of data submitted through a Google form, etc.

Question 1:

Is the PDE legally empowered to withhold public funds from districts that handle their own community health and safety without reference to the CDC?

2. The board member or superintendent further said that the board believes that Gov. Wolf’s and [former] Health Secretary [Levine]’s most recent emergency declaration will expire on June 28, but made no reference to last week’s legislative votes which ended the emergency declaration immediately (at least that was my understanding).

Thus, the board members are still wearing masks, for example, even though they also believe that their own health and safety plan expired with the end of the school year, which they thought was when kids were done with school, but now they think it means end of the fiscal year, June 30.

The kicker piece is that the speaker (board member or superintendent) said that PDE has issued its own set of emergency orders, separate from the Governor’s orders and the Health Secretary’s orders, implying that the PDE orders are still in full force, and are not affected by any legislative action (such as the concurrent resolutions in House and Senate last week under the new constitutional amendments).

So the school board still believes it has to comply with whatever the orders are that PDE has been issuing all year, and whichever ones are still in force right now.

Question 2 - Does PDE have independent legal authority to impose emergency orders on school districts, school boards and public school students [and parents], separate from the statutory power cited by Wolf and Levine? (Which were the 1978 Emergency Management Services Code and the 1955 Disease Prevention and Control Law).

And separate from the constitutional authority now vested in the legislature to end “states of emergency” by concurrent resolution?

It appears that the PDE and CDC are conspiring to hold Pennsylvania public school students and their parents hostage, by conditioning the release of public school funding - presumably derived from individual and business tax revenue - on school board implementation of what I (and many others) believe are unconstitutional, immoral, dangerous and dehumanizing practices, including forced masking of children, teens and staff; forced mRNA injections; and forced disclosure of private medical information.

Any information you have about what’s going on would be very appreciated. There was some other weird information presented, but those are the two major issues I was able to identify.

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