This is the real problem, these elections matter more than Presidential elections.
The Democrats lied
” the result of well-funded campaigns orchestrated by local leaders”
What ‘leaders’ and where did the money come from? What the hell is wrong with the loser Republicans? What are the Republicans doing to win the mid terms?
Politico, so adjust accordingly.
That said, school board elections historically have tended to be dominated by the teachers unions. It is extremely hard for groups of concerned parents to get traction.
If the story is anywhere close to accurate, the dems ran on ... TEST SCORES, among other things. The party that has been waging all out war on educational standards is getting traction on academic commitment? That is surrealistic if true. It would also demonstrate (again) that most parents don’t have a clue about what is going on in the schools. That’s why big lie campaigns work.
Conservatives continue to have a real problem staying on message. A consistent and unrelenting commitment to school choice is our throughline. Everything should link back to that, because what ails the schools is fundamentally a governance issue.
“In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards”
In culture war backlash, DEMONCRATS sweep school boards
There, fixed it
Not good, but not unexpected; entropy at work. Despite some positive advances, this old world is going south.
I saw that NC registration has turned more red. Now they must vote.
“In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards”
The headline is 100% backward. It was the conservatives who were the culture-war backlash.
These new democrats are just going to go back to the weirdness of the previous school board members, the ones who needed correcting. Politico wants to play around like it’s the conservatives who are bringing the weird.
The media are the real reason why the conservatives lost. I have little doubt that an analysis of the local Houston-based media would reveal an overwhelmingly slanted and propaganda-oriented news cycle that presented the Democrats as normal, natural, and healthy.
Meanwhile (local liberal media reporting about:) these FASCISTS who think “men” are “men”. “What’s wrong with these people?” “Can’t we get some good democrats in there?”
It’s a good thing Bari Weiss has a real chance of turning the tide at CBS. Those local CBS affiliates would do wonders for helping out getting real people into the school boards. The rare individuals willing to give it a shot anyways.
We live in the information age and we are starving for information.
Democrats will lie, cheat and steal to win elections any way they can. The parents of those democrat heavy school boards will soon be sorry that they fell for their BS lies.
That does not directly address the story, but it's very relevant.
In my state and I believe that its true in most states school board elections are always at a time when there’s no partisan election. Meaning not during the 2-year midterms and the 4-year full term. The theory behind this is to remove “partisanship” from school board elections. Doing this does such a good job of removing “partisanship” that “partisanship” sneaks through the back door! Educrats and their teacher union sycophants then hustle out their mindless marching mommies to get to the polls and get their candidate elected. This is completely our own fault for letting this happen!