{"id":1695684,"date":"2022-10-14T06:05:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T10:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1695684"},"modified":"2022-10-16T12:56:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T16:56:58","slug":"local-school-board-races-garner-interest-and-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/local-school-board-races-garner-interest-and-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Local School Board Races Garner Interest and Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Flocal-school-board-races-garner-interest-and-funding%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=1695684&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>PUNTA GORDA, Fla.\u2013 Local school board races have never been more prominent than in this election cycle because parents are \u201creacting strongly to what is being taught in classrooms,\u201d according to a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.heritage.org\/ODI0LU1IVC0zMDQAAAGHauDHxZPwu50D7mlxRu-Xf5-oPftx2-82mnGdtSCXFILaQ0liBRCamhzUlGhUZvKEEGVFskY=\">Jonathan Butcher,<\/a>\u00a0the Will Skillman Fellow in Education at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/\">The Heritage Foundation<\/a> says there is \u201crenewed interest\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-school-board-elections\">school board elections<\/a> because parents are having \u201cstrong reactions\u201d to what is being taught in the classrooms and believe that the schools should be \u201crepresentative of their values \u2026 and of their community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When they see something that runs afoul of their beliefs, \u201cthey\u2019ll speak up and say, \u2018hey this doesn\u2019t represent me, this is not what I want for my kids\u2019,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that parents have always been interested in what\u2019s going on in K12 schools,\u201d Butcher told The Epoch Times. \u201cThere\u2019s always been something in which parents have wanted to voice their opinions on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/butcherj.png\"><\/a> Jonathan Butcher is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation. (Courtesy, The Heritage Foundation) <\/p>\n<p>Bridget Ziegler was recently reelected to her Sarasota County school board seat and agrees that since she initially \u201cgot into politics\u201d in 2014, she has seen the interest in school board races increase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my race in 2014, we had 50,001 total voters in the August election,\u201d Ziegler told The Epoch Times. \u201cI went to a runoff and then it went up to 137,369 [voters].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She went on to say that the 2020 turnout was even better as a record 230,000 turned out to vote in local elections. She said she believes it is because people are tired of schools interfering with moral issues that should be taught in the home that has driven the rise in voter turnout and the results of the elections leaning more to the conservative side.<\/p>\n<p>Ziegler said that along with historic record voter turnouts, political action committees have pumped a lot of money into local elections because local elections affect \u201cpeople\u2019s everyday lives,\u201d coupled with conservative candidates having to \u201cfight a media machine and a liberal teachers union.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my race, I was just combating a media machine and the [teachers] union so I had to raise more money, but I never saw any kind of national interest,\u201d she explained. \u201cThis is the first time in the election cycle I have seen that now. Unions in the past would take national money and bring it to their local state or local chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reality, she said, is that conservatives are \u201ctaking the gloves off and we\u2019re gonna play ball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ziegler said that sticking to policy issues will win conservative seats on school boards and will catapult conservative candidates to state and federal posts because people are now motivated to stop a WOKE agenda, especially in schools.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Bridget-Ziegler.jpeg\"><\/a> Bridget Ziegler is a Sarasota County School Board member. (Courtesy, Bridget Ziegler) <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s how they saw what was happening,\u201d she said. \u201cThey were activated because when you mess with someone\u2019s kids, you\u2019re dealing with a whole different level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUNTA GORDA, Fla.\u2013 Local school board races have never been more prominent than in this election cycle because parents are \u201creacting strongly to what is being taught in classrooms,\u201d according to a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Jonathan Butcher,\u00a0the Will Skillman Fellow in Education at\u00a0The Heritage Foundation says there is \u201crenewed interest\u201d in school &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1695691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695684","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1695691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}