AMERICANALMANAC (Charles McAdams) - Philadelphia schools brought a convicted felon and prison abolition group into classrooms for mandatory student workshops
Pennsylvania's largest school district partnered with a self-described "revolutionary" organization to run mandatory "liberation" workshops for students, led in part by a convicted felon with a record of antisemitic statements. The School District of Philadelphia hosted a series of symposia between 2025 and 2026 organized through a partnership between a 10th-grade history teacher and the […] The post Philadelphia schools brought a convicted felon and prison abolition group into classrooms for mandatory student workshops appeared first on American Almanac .
Pennsylvania's largest school district partnered with a self-described "revolutionary" organization to run mandatory "liberation" workshops for students, led in part by a convicted felon with a record of antisemitic statements. The School District of Philadelphia hosted a series of symposia between 2025 and 2026 organized through a partnership between a 10th-grade history teacher and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction, an outfit that openly describes itself as a "political education program for aspiring revolutionaries." Among the facilitators who led sessions for children as young as seventh grade: Anthony Smith, who pleaded guilty to a felony for his role in torching a police car during the riots…Open