{"id":1171743,"date":"2021-12-30T07:19:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T12:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1171743"},"modified":"2021-12-30T07:19:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T12:19:17","slug":"2022-battleground-conservatives-push-for-partisan-political-school-board-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2022-battleground-conservatives-push-for-partisan-political-school-board-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Battleground: Conservatives Push for Partisan, Political School Board Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F2022-battleground-conservatives-push-for-partisan-political-school-board-elections%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1171743&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Conservatives are targeting untapped potential in school board races as 2021 saw districts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/10\/27\/loudoun-county-parents-rally-at-nsba-hq-they-want-to-keep-the-educational-system-their-own-indoctrination-mill\/\">exposed<\/a> across the country as left-wing \u201cindoctrination mills,\u201d setting up ripe political battlegrounds in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to take back control of school boards in America, Republicans are pushing changes that would turn the typically nonpartisan races in to partisan, political ones with contested primaries.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In October, lawmakers in Tennessee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/12\/29\/republicans-education-wars-school-board-races-526053\">voted<\/a> to allow listing party affiliation on the ballot for school board candidates, according to <em>Politico<\/em>, and Arizona and Missouri are looking at similar proposals.<\/p>\n<p>Florida\u2019s proposal, to be considered in their upcoming legislative session, would set up partisan school board elections and create primary elections for candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Florida\u2019s school boards were one of the major entities attempting to thwart Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019s (R) coronavirus protocols by charging forward with mask mandates or virtual learning. Every school district that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/12\/all-florida-school-districts-defying-desantis-drop-school-mask-mandates\/\">tried<\/a> to defy DeSantis\u2019s ban on mask mandates has since capitulated after the Sunshine State\u2019s Department of Education voted to withhold funding from districts defying the policy. If Republicans can find a niche in school board elections, <em>Politico<\/em>&nbsp;warns, \u201cthey could break the last holdouts who regularly defy the governor.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19301450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1234246897.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19301450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1234246897.jpg\" alt=\"TAMPA, FL - JULY 27: Supporters of a mask mandate and anti-mask mandate speak during public comments at the Hillsborough County Schools Board meeting held at the district office on July 27, 2021 in Tampa, Florida. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended those who are vaccinated should wear masks indoors including students returning to school. (Photo by Octavio Jones\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters of mask mandates and anti-mask mandates speak during public comments at the Hillsborough County School Board meeting on July 27, 2021, in Tampa, Florida. (Octavio Jones\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Florida state Sen. Joe Gruters (R) said of the push, \u201cWe\u2019re out there trying to elect good conservatives that will follow essentially the governor\u2019s mission as it relates to education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gruters, who chairs the state Senate\u2019s education committee and also leads the state\u2019s GOP, reasoned that \u201cwhen you have a leader like DeSantis come out and say that there should be no lockdowns, if you have a Republican elected official, you would think they would probably give him the consideration and probably go along with what he asked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the Republican Party of Texas has <a href=\"https:\/\/texasgop.org\/rpt-local-government-committee\/\">vowed<\/a> to \u201cadvance conservative principles on a local level\u201d by \u201cplay[ing] a greater role in non-partisan races\u201d like school boards.<\/p>\n<p>Texas GOP vice chair Cat Parks called the initiative \u201cone of the most consequential initiatives our party can undertake,\u201d while the party\u2019s chairman, Matt Rinaldi, said, \u201cIt is no coincidence that this initiative comes at the same time President Biden\u2019s Department of Justice is attempting to suppress parental involvement in local elections by threatening to treat parents as terrorists for becoming involved in their children\u2019s education.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>While <em>Politico<\/em> is apparently worried about Republicans \u201cstrip[ping]&nbsp;school board elections of their nonpartisan status and gain[ing] more representation on school boards,\u201d 2021 revealed that school boards have been doing the left\u2019s political footwork for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, communist writer Howard Zinn\u2019s 1980 pseudo-history, <em>A People\u2019s History of the United States<\/em>, has been implemented in school districts across the country for source material. When <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010525003828\/http:\/\/www.flagpole.com\/Issues\/02.18.98\/lit.html\">asked<\/a> in a 1998 interview if, with that book, he was calling for a \u201cquiet revolution,\u201d Zinn responded, \u201cA quiet revolution is a good way of putting it. From the bottom up. Not a revolution in the classical sense of a seizure of power, but rather from people beginning to take power from within the institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Zinn Education Project also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/07\/06\/zinn-teachers-critical-race-theory\/\">called<\/a> for teachers to defy laws banning the teaching of the indoctrination scheme critical race theory \u2014 the latest tool in the \u201cdecades-old leftist campaign to indoctrinate America\u2019s students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While <em>Politico<\/em> appears to regard critical race theory as \u201ca subject that has emerged as a boogeyman for GOP policymakers in numerous states who are condemning efforts to teach young people about the nation\u2019s history of discrimination,\u201d numerous historians have debunked its chief premise that America was founded to perpetuate racism and a white-dominant society. The common leftist trope that it is about teaching \u201cthe nation\u2019s history of discrimination\u201d because it is not otherwise taught is also false.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/19\/federal-civil-rights-complaint-filed-against-illinois-school-over-racial-segregation\/\">reported<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/17\/federal-civil-rights-complaint-filed-against-denver-schools-over-racial-segregation\/\">countless<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/15\/montana-school-district-removes-term-equity-from-policy-but-officials-say-we-will-continue-to-do-equity-work\/\">examples<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/27\/critical-race-theory-whistleblower-curriculum-pits-our-students-against-each-other-based-on-color\/\">critical<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/26\/manhattan-school-racially-segregate-children-social-justice-talks\/\">race<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/29\/segregation-for-racial-justice-massachusetts-principal-promises-racially-divided-spaces-over-rittenhouse-verdict\/\">theory<\/a> in schools \u2014 other tenets of which are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/20\/exclusive-gov-pete-ricketts-critical-race-theory-is-about-resegregation-a-betrayal-of-the-civil-rights-movement\/\">resegregation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/24\/virginia-parents-sue-school-board-for-teaching-children-to-affirmatively-discriminate-based-on-race\/\">race essentialism<\/a>, and the idea that non-white people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/04\/15\/california-weighs-equitable-math-goal-obtaining-correct-answer-racist\/\">are<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/education\/2021\/05\/28\/exclusive-critical-race-theory-inside-virginia-countys-curriculum-racial-indoctrination\/\">somehow<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/education\/2021\/02\/16\/oregon-educators-making-math-students-show-their-work-is-white-supremacy\/\">generally<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/07\/15\/smithsonian-african-american-history-museum-defines-whiteness-individualism-science-hard-work\/\">incapable<\/a> members of society \u2014 that have sparked local controversy, leading to skyrocketing parental involvement in school boards across the country.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>School boards have also been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/21\/exclusive-historian-dr-mary-grabar-the-left-needs-fake-history-to-achieve-marxist-socialist-revolution\/\">implementing<\/a> the use of the widely debunked <em>New York Times<\/em> \u201c1619 Project\u201d \u2014 the brainchild of non-historian Nikole Hannah-Jones. Indeed, Dr. Mary Grabar, an actual historian, told Breitbart News that the goal of the \u201c1619 Project\u201d is to achieve \u201cMarxist socialist revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u20181619 Project\u2019 presents all white people as evil. There\u2019s no mention of civil rights workers or activists,\u201d Grabar explained. \u201cSo, it presents this false narrative of American history where all white people oppressed all black people \u2014 and that is being taught to second graders. And, rightfully, parents who, especially during the pandemic, were seeing what their kids were learning, you know, were shocked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peter Kirsanow, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/09\/16\/u-s-civil-rights-commissioner-peter-kirsanow-1619-project-sheer-propaganda\/\">said<\/a>&nbsp;in September the \u201c1619 Project\u201d is \u201cone of the most significant attempts to propagandize history\u201d he has seen in his lifetime.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19301290\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1233450118.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19301290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1233450118.jpg\" alt=\"People hold up signs during a rally against &quot;critical race theory&quot; (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government center in Leesburg, Virginia on June 12, 2021. - &quot;Are you ready to take back our schools?&quot; Republican activist Patti Menders shouted at a rally opposing anti-racism teaching that critics like her say trains white children to see themselves as &quot;oppressors.&quot; &quot;Yes!&quot;, answered in unison the hundreds of demonstrators gathered this weekend near Washington to fight against &quot;critical race theory,&quot; the latest battleground of America&#039;s ongoing culture wars. The term &quot;critical race theory&quot; defines a strand of thought that appeared in American law schools in the late 1970s and which looks at racism as a system, enabled by laws and institutions, rather than at the level of individual prejudices. But critics use it as a catch-all phrase that attacks teachers&#039; efforts to confront dark episodes in American history, including slavery and segregation, as well as to tackle racist stereotypes. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS \/ AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">People hold up signs during a rally against critical race theory being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government Center in Leesburg, Virginia, on June 12, 2021. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Some school officials, like Jim Welch of Tennessee\u2019s Kingsport Board of Education, are wary of the partisan changes in school board elections because they might \u201ccreate division among the board and shift the focus away from the needs of the students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But&nbsp;many parents have lost confidence that schools have students\u2019 best interests in mind, particularly when it comes to sexual health and education.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new Rasmussen survey, Americans overwhelmingly (68 percent) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/27\/survey-americans-overwhelmingly-distrust-teachers-schools-with-childrens-sexual-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">distrust<\/a> teachers and schools with issues regarding student sexual health and identity \u2014 and it appears for good reason.<\/p>\n<p>The Loudoun County, Virginia, school board has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/14\/loudoun-county-school-board\/\">accused<\/a> of \u201cbury[ing] a rape\u201d of a student after the board there appears to have covered up the fact that a boy dressed in a skirt raped a girl in the girls\u2019 bathroom \u2014 seemingly in an attempt to pass a controversial transgender policy that would allow boys to use girls\u2019 bathrooms and play against girls in sports.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/18\/wisconsin-parents-sue-school-district-for-allowing-daughter-to-socially-transition-without-their-consent\/\">reported<\/a>, Wisconsin parents sued their school district on behalf of their daughter after the \u201cschool began a \u2018social transition\u2019 so she could \u2018present[] to others as the opposite sex\u2019\u201d because district policy&nbsp;\u201callows minor students to change their name and gender pronouns at school without parental consent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Similarly,&nbsp;Florida parents are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/16\/florida-parents-sue-school-for-secretly-transitioning-13-year-old-daughter\/\">suing<\/a> their school district for \u201csecretly transitioning\u201d their daughter into a \u201ctransgender male,\u201d and in California,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/education\/2021\/12\/17\/parents-outraged-claim-teacher-coached-daughter-into-identifying-as-trans-fluid\/\">parents<\/a> \u201cclaimed&nbsp;school staff indoctrinated their daughter into identifying as \u2018trans fluid.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>School districts are also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/education\/2021\/11\/18\/transgender-connecticut-parents-report-kindergartners-taught-gender-ideology-without-opt-out\/\">teaching<\/a>&nbsp;transgender ideology without the knowledge of parents. In Connecticut, a school district is teaching \u201ctransgender ideology without an opt-out.\u201d Parents there said their kindergartner was being taught \u201cthat the sex you\u2019re assigned at birth is \u2018wrong; and you\u2019re actually a boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, school districts are stocking their libraries with pornographic and pedophilic materials, exposing students to explicit sexual material. Indeed, Virginia\u2019s largest school district, Fairfax County, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/29\/fairfax-county-public-schools-reintroduces-pornographic-pedophilic-material\/\">reintroduced<\/a> such material after a committee found neither pornographic nor pedophilic material in the contested books, despite clear evidence of drawings and literature to the contrary.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the Biden administration in November <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/23\/biden-education-department-to-curtail-trump-era-effort-to-track-teacher-sex-crimes-teacher-unions-to-continue-passing-the-trash\/\">decided<\/a> to stop tracking alleged teacher sex crimes and allow school districts to continue to \u201cpass the trash,\u201d before&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/16\/biden-admin-planned-to-halt-trump-era-tracking-of-teacher-sex-offenses-but-public-backlash-forces-retreat\/\">reversing<\/a>&nbsp;its decision after public backlash.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/20\/republicans-promise-national-education-fight-midterms\/\">reported<\/a>, \u201cRepublicans across the country gearing up for the midterms are promising a major education reform push focused on parental rights and educational standards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Breccan F. Thies<\/em>&nbsp;<em>is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreccanFThies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BreccanFThies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives are targeting untapped potential in school board races as 2021 saw districts exposed across the country as left-wing \u201cindoctrination mills,\u201d setting up ripe political battlegrounds in 2022. In an &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}