“The Gross PAC” and its allied board candidates and members actively advocate and accomplish harm towards our students in districts across York County. They normalize bad policies with impacts throughout Pennsylvania. PAEGP’s meddling leads to book bans, anti-LGBT policies, racially biased actions, abandoned norms and violations of transparency laws.
View our case studies of how “The Gross PAC” makes everything worse.
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2025 Election Results – Important Victories against the Gross PAC and More Work to Do
With the 2025 Municipal Election results now available for York County, we can announce the following regarding candidates endorsed by the Gross PAC (PAEGP): LOST (7 Candidates): Steve Kopelic – Dallastown Area SD Don Yoder – Dallastown Area SD Kelly Brent – West Shore SD Michael Park – York Suburban SD Andrew P. Ruth –…
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Shadows and Solicitors: West Shore’s Legal Coup
In 2024, the conservative majority on the West Shore School Board set out to do what many other far-right school boards in Pennsylvania have done. They wanted to quietly install legal counsel who would back their extremist agenda. But this time, they didn’t just catch public attention—they got sued for it. At the center of…
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Peeping in the Bathroom Window: South Western’s Attacks on LGBT Students
In August 2024, South Western School District’s school board spent $8,700 on bathroom windows. Yet these weren’t normal bathroom windows to the outside. They placed these windows into the walls of only the gender-inclusive restrooms at Emory H. Markle Middle School. Board President Matt Gelazela authorized this action. Gelazela is a conservative and registered Libertarian…
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“This Isn’t a Ban,” But It Was: How PAEGP Extremism Sparked Book Bans and Resistance in Central York
In 2021, the Central York School District made national headlines for all the wrong reasons. Its board was led by a faction that included PA Economic Growth PAC’s current education director and then-Vice President of the board, Veronica Gemma. The district enacted a sweeping ban on a list of over 400 diversity-related educational materials. Many of these resources were books written by or about Black and Brown people. Teachers and staff in Central York compiled the list in the wake of George Floyd’s murder in 2020. They intended it to be a resource for classrooms and students. The list included books, articles, and documentaries that addressed racism, civil rights, and equity. It included episodes of Sesame Street as well as biographies of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks.
