{"id":962384,"date":"2021-11-03T12:58:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T16:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=962384"},"modified":"2021-11-03T12:58:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T16:58:43","slug":"crt-opponents-win-big-in-school-board-elections-across-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crt-opponents-win-big-in-school-board-elections-across-america\/","title":{"rendered":"CRT Opponents Win Big In School Board Elections Across America"},"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\">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%2Fcrt-opponents-win-big-in-school-board-elections-across-america%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=962384&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>Candidates opposed to the teaching of critical race theory in public schools won school board elections across the United States on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The victories ranged from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, where the conservative education advocacy group 1776 Project PAC claimed victory in three races in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1776ProjectPac\/status\/1455759556974415873\">a Twitter post<\/a>, to the Spokane-area Central Valley School District, where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2021\/nov\/02\/write-in-candidates-lose-races-for-central-valley-\/\">Spokane Spokesman-Review<\/a> reported that Pam Orebaugh, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/electpam4kids.com\/services\">campaign site<\/a> expressed opposition to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/22\/merrick-garland-son-in-law-xan-tanner-panorama-critical-race-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CRT<\/a>, turned back a write-in challenger.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"12.041474654378\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Congrats to Greg Young, Jessica Bradbury, and Marissa Ruggiero Rocco.<\/p>\n<p>Three Candidates we backed for school board in Montgomery County, PA.<\/p>\n<p>They all won tonight!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 1776 Project Pac (@1776ProjectPac) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1776ProjectPac\/status\/1455759556974415873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>CRT holds that America is fundamentally racist, yet teaches people to view every social interaction and person in terms of race, and whose adherents pursue \u201cantiracism\u201d through the end of merit, objective truth and the adoption of race-based policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday\u2019s election demonstrates that parents are willing and able to cut through school officials\u2019 jargon and gaslighting \u2014 and that they will absolutely exercise control over their children\u2019s education, whether politicians want them involved or not,\u201d Parents Defending Education President and Founder Nicole Neily said in statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation. \u201cThe vast majority of American families oppose students being taught to view themselves and others through the lens of identity politics \u2014 and this trend is not going away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The anti-CRT candidates swept to victory even in counties that went decisively for Joe Biden in the 2020 election, like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1776ProjectPac\/status\/1455743648868483072\">Hennepin County, Minnesota<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of this morning our candidates lead in 44 of the 58 races we competed in,\u201d the 1776 Project said in a Twitter post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParents have come together to build a united coalition that elevated K-12 education to center stage \u2014 placing value in academics over activism and safety over politics. That powerful coalition\u2019s message should be heard loud and clear by groups like the National School Boards Association and other special interest leaders that all tried to discount the merit of parents\u2019 frustration,\u201d Alleigh Marr\u0117, President of Free to Learn, told the DCNF in a statement. \u201cParents deserve a seat at the table, because there\u2019s nothing more important than our kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.1160220994475\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">As of this morning our candidates lead in 44 of the 58 races we competed in.<\/p>\n<p>We may have won 75% of the races we competed in!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 1776 Project Pac (@1776ProjectPac) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1776ProjectPac\/status\/1455874602807271428?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In Virginia, Governor-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/02\/glenn-youngkin-terry-mcauliffe-virginia-governor-election-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glenn Youngkin<\/a> campaigned on banning CRT in classrooms and defeated Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe, who conceded Wednesday morning. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/02\/virginia-governor-race-education-crt-teachers-explain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018If These Issues Can Arise Here, They Can Occur Anywhere\u2019: Teachers Break Down How Virginia Became The Ground Zero In The Education Culture War)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen parents see how woke policies hurt their children and their communities, they spring into action, and we saw this first hand in Virginia. Elected officials across the country should take note: Americans of all political persuasions are fed up with the Left\u2019s social and cultural extremism, and they\u2019re voting like it,\u201d Jessica Anderson, executive director of the Heritage Action For America, told the DCNF.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candidates opposed to the teaching of critical race theory in public schools won school board elections across the United States on Tuesday.The victories ranged from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, where the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-962384","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\/962384","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962384\/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=962384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}