{"id":133425,"date":"2022-11-11T12:50:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T17:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=133425"},"modified":"2022-11-11T12:20:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T17:20:33","slug":"school-board-elections-became-a-red-undercurrent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=133425","title":{"rendered":"School board elections became a ‘red undercurrent’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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State and local elections, involving education, appeared to favor conservatives. Parent involvement with policies related to their children’s education motivated pro-parent\/pro-education candidates to run. Many of them won across the country, making pro-parent groups happy with many of the election results.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“Parents are fired up, and they’re winning, even in blue states,” Morabito added. “Conservatives flipped school boards in Michigan and Maryland, and more than 40 candidates backed by parental rights groups notched wins in Minnesota.”<\/p>\n

Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice told Fox News Digital that over 50% of the candidates they endorsed had won their election, most of whom were first-time candidates.<\/p>\n

Candidates backed by the Minnesota Parents Alliance won in 15 of the 19 districts where the organization devoted campaign resources, totaling 49 candidates.<\/p>\n

In Florida, all six school board members endorsed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, R., won their runoff elections, resulting in 24 of the 30 candidates backed by the governor being elected.<\/p>\n

“I think there actually are a lot of local races that were flipped,” Parents Defending Education President Nicole Neily told Fox News Digital. “A lot of people ran on these cultural issues, and they won.”<\/p>\n

Neily conceded that not every conservative or pro-parent candidate won, but she was still encouraged by the results.<\/p>\n

“Parents are kind of David versus Goliath in this,” she added. “With that in mind, I think the fact that this little upstart band of unhappy parents has made such significant inroads, particularly at the local level, I think is really astonishing.”<\/p>\n

The success of these pro-parents candidates should have a tangible benefit on schools, Justice said.<\/p>\n

“If you think about the policies that are going to be enacted by pro-parental rights candidates that have just won, their focus is going to be on recognizing and respecting fundamental parental rights and on student achievement,” she said.<\/p>\n

Justice predicted that in areas where there were “pro-parental rights” candidates being elected, parents would be more involved in their children\u2019s education.<\/p>\n

“The differences in these districts are only going to become more and more glaringly obvious,” she added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News has the rest of the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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