PAC Donates $10K To Challengers In North Penn School Board Race

LANSDALE, PA — In the months leading up to the 2021 municipal election, a political action committee that advocates to keep schools open to in-person instruction has donated $10,000 to candidates in the North Penn School District.

The Back to School PA PAC, which has donated $300,000 to school board races statewide, gave the funds to the North Penn Views PAC. That PAC supports four challenging candidates in this November's election, running under a slated called "North Penn Stronger Together": Mike Kennedy, Jessie Bradica, Harry Snyder, and Fred Froehlich.

"PAC Chair Becker and Treasurer Wilson want to balance out the current board that kept schools closed for much of the last school year," Back to School PAC spokesperson Clarice Schillinger said.

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The North Penn Stronger Together slate is challenging several members of the currently Democrat-aligned nine member board. It's a board that voted unanimously in recent weeks to mandate masking at the elementary school level — a decision that sent a public school board meeting spiraling into chaos. That decision, of course, became a moot point when Gov. Tom Wolf's administration issued a mask mandate for all schools statewide weeks later.

One of the chief grievances of the PACs with the current school board dates back to July 2020, when they say that the board should have given more options to families, rather than starting the year fully virtual.

"As a result of these decisions, North Penn Views PAC recruited and vetted high quality school board candidates who would ensure that the schools were never closed again," Schillinger added.

The four challengers will run against sitting board members Tina Stoll, Christian Fusco, Jonathan Kassa, and Alfred Roesch in November.