• Adams is being paid $125 per hour for this work, with no limit on the number of hours, no specific deliverables, and no termination date.
• Notably, Adams, who is 31, does not have any experience developing curricula for public schools.
• Adams is being paid $125 per hour for this work, with no limit on the number of hours, no specific deliverables, and no termination date.

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• The agreement in hiring Vermilion — at a cost of $125 per hour — is open ended, meaning there could be no limit to what the plan could cost the district, and ultimately, taxpayers.
• During a six-hour long meeting on Tuesday (June 20, 2023), Adams had a chance to defend his company’s intentions and present his plan for overhauling the district’s curriculum.
  It did not go well.
• Board member Joan Cullen questioned Adams motives, saying it should have been a Social Studies consulting contract, not an effort focused on retooling English and reading initiatives.
  “I’m a bit confused,” she said. “This is wildly off the path of what it was intended to do.”

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• “It is my sincere belief that approving the curriculum in its current form would be a mistake that undermines the quality of education we should strive to provide our students,” Jim Kearney, a parent of two Pennridge students who is assistant director of teaching and learning for the Radnor School District, told the board…

  Kearney, a former social studies teacher who serves on the National Constitution Center’s Teacher Advisory Board, and has developed social studies curricula in Pennsylvania and nationally, said the new curriculum “exhibits significant pedagogical and content-related shortcomings.” He also said that Hillsdale’s curriculum — promoted by the college amid a broader conservative backlash to the New York Times’ 1619 Project — hadn’t garnered endorsements from nonpartisan historian associations.

• At a meeting last week, Pennridge teachers spoke out against the curriculum changes, including the push to adopt revamped social studies courses for first through fifth graders on the first day of school — before they’d had time to prepare lesson plans.

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