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Party politics spark interest in school board elections

10/22/2022 9:15:00 PM

People are already voting with the general election almost two weeks away @MargaritoGPerez tells us how political extremism is now affecting down-ballot races

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People are already voting, with the general election almost two weeks away. MargaritoGPerez tells us how political extremism is now affecting down-ballot races. School board elections are supposed to be non-partisan, but party politics have sparked much more interest in who's running school districts and spending taxpayer money. 10:18COVID-19 created universal chaos in education, reflected in noisy, emotional school board meetings. Parents, teachers, and community members showed up to those meetings like never before, to blame and berate school board members about everything from mask mandates and vaccine requirements to critical race theory and LGBTQ representation. Those issues have stirred high interest in this November’s school board elections.“Strong Republican or Democrats who have these passionate partisan feelings now see the school board as a partisan body that might be attractive to them,” said Evan Crawford, a political scientist at the University of San Diego. He studies trends in school boards across the country. Read more:
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