Voters across the country handed wins on Election Day to local school board candidates who built their campaigns on opposing critical race theory and mask mandates.
Jason Anderson, who has an 11-year-old son in the Blue Valley School District, said he voted for candidates who were supportive of mask mandates and upholding public school initiatives.
"Some of us are busy local parents who may not have the disposable income to donate to campaigns," he said."It makes us wonder: What do we really have at a local level to push back at this national funding?"John Rogers, a professor of education at the School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, said the combination of money, messaging and malcontents likely helped the successful candidates cruise to victories.
"Clearly there's a strategic effort to push actions at the school board level," Rogers added,"and it does seem to have had some success."In Guilford, Connecticut, a mostly white New Haven suburb of 22,000, voters rejected a Republican school board slate organized to combat critical race theory.
"If all you bring to your school board is conflict and anger," Rogers said,"it's going to be difficult to get the day-to-day done."
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