Voters in some of the highest-profile school board elections across the U.S. rebuked conservative candidates in local school board elections who want to ban boo
In recent years, down-ballot elections have become proxy votes for polarizing national issues. Liberal and moderate candidates took control in high-profile races Tuesday in conservative Iowa, as well as swing states Pennsylvania and Virginia.and the 1776 Project lost about 70% of their races nationally in elections this week — a tally those groups dispute.
In Pennsylvania’s York County, for instance, the 1776 Project’s political action committee said on social media that 36 of the 37 candidates they endorsed had won. Conservatives took control of the board in Texas’ third-largest district, Cypress-Fairbanks, in the Houston suburbs, and made gains in Minnesota’s largest district, Anoka-Hennepin.
School boards, usually nonpartisan, deal with the nitty-gritty of running a key community institution that decides curriculum standards and discipline policies for students, negotiates contracts with teachers unions and sets property tax rates for homeowners.
At contentious school board meetings in Central Bucks in the past year, students who spoke out at meetings said they’d hear slurs and hate speech and seen violence at school — a problem they called on the board to address.after the board barred school staff from using students’ chosen names and pronouns without parental permission. The board also enforced policies of so-called “neutrality,” which prohibited classroom discussions that opponents say targeted LGBTQ+ students.
A conservative board in that county was one of the first to enact Youngkin’s reforms, and the superintendent hired by that districtfrom library shelves, including “Beloved” by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison and “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky. Two board members went as far as to suggest that the books should be burned. One of those two, Kirk Twigg, lost his reelection race by almost 25 points.
, particularly over its policies on transgender students, Democratic-endorsed candidates won or were leading in six of the nine school board races, although two Democratic incumbents lost or were trailing.
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