In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards - POLITICO

The party recruited and invested in school board races to oust Republicans. It worked...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/21/culture-war-democrats-school-boards-00663699 

 

Michigan bill would make school board elections partisan, breaking 100-year tradition

Michigan lawmakers are debating a bill that would require school board candidates to run with party labels, ending the state's long nonpartisan tradition. Education groups warn the proposal could inject politics into local districts and limit who can serve…

https://www.michiganpublic.org/education/2025-11-18/michigan-bill-would-make-school-board-elections-partisan-breaking-100-year-tradition

Trolling a Moms for Liberty School Board in NYC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGEbhM8qVgI

"How much God do you need?" School board member slams invocation plan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJlxOCmnAGs

 

Mom's for Liberty is trying to take over this school in Arizona

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6r5T9c6J-0

She wanted to take America back to ‘biblical truth.’ Then she won a school board seat. - The Washington Post

Green relies heavily on the work of David Barton, an amateur historian and influential figure inside today's GOP. Barton offers a largely de-racialized history of American slavery, maintaining that it wasn't rooted in white supremacy. He supports his thesis by asserting that some free Black people and Native Americans enslaved people during Colonial times. He also argues that some Black patriots held positions of influence in early America. 

His narrative doesn't account for the fact that the vast majority of the half-million enslaved people at the time of the American Revolution were Black. Nor does it acknowledge that the country's slave market was created and sustained by Whites who "bought their independence with [African] slave labor," in the words of Edmund S. Morgan, a renowned professor of Colonial American history at Yale University who died in 2013. Morgan called this the "American paradox of slavery and freedom … the rights of Englishmen supported on the wrongs of Africans." 

Barton has also drawn harsh criticism for claiming that the Founding Fathers intended to create a Christian nation — a view he summed up in a book that was pulled from circulation in 2012 after its publisher, Thomas Nelson, said there were "historical details — matters of fact, not matters of opinion — that were not supported at all."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/17/patriot-academy-biblical-citizenship-school-board/

Two students may have stopped a school board from saying Christian prayers at meetings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gtFUZd9iAE

A Kentucky school board meeting shows the power of Christian nationalism

There's no proof that Kentucky Christians are being persecuted — and yet many seem determined to believe otherwise...

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kentucky-anderson-county-school-board-christian-nationalism-rcna127149

Ted Mische Is Recruiting And Training Right-Wing School Board Candidates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oZnrzY3Uy8

CA school board leader condemned over calls for "Christ centered" parents on committees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBNL9MXw1ag

A school board's focus on CRT stirs backlash in Temecula schools - POLITICO

"We don't want culture wars. We don't want Fox News appearances," Alex Douvas, a parent of two kids in the district who previously worked for two Republican congressmembers in Orange County, told the board recently. "Our schools are not ideological battlegrounds. They're not platforms for religious evangelism. These are institutions for learning and growth."…

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/09/culture-clash-religious-right-california-00105259

School Board President DESTROYS Homophobic Protestors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYvt8IIwC2s

Protesters brawl over Pride Month outside Glendale school board meeting - The Washington Post

Before the Glendale school board meeting Tuesday, the school district posted to Facebook on Monday warning that "intentional and harmful disinformation has been circulating about what is being taught in our district and the ways we serve our students." The district said the superintendent and members of the school board have been meeting with parents and teachers to try to correct a narrative that's been building online regarding its LGBTQ curriculum...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/06/07/california-glendale-school-board-brawl-lgbtq-pride/

An Arrest With Dropped Charges at Winston-Salem School Board Meeting — ProPublica

In the dozens of incidents ProPublica examined, some of which involved threats and violence, only one person who disrupted a meeting was given a jail sentence: a college student protesting in support of transgender rights. By contrast, almost all of the other individuals, including Jensen, railed against the adoption of mask mandates, the teaching of "divisive concepts" concerning racial inequality and the availability of books with LGBTQ+ themes in school libraries. Also like Jensen, the vast majority of people arrested or charged faced few consequences...

https://www.propublica.org/article/winston-salem-nc-school-board-arrests

Rightwing extremists defeated by Democrats in US school board elections

Republican-backed culture warrior candidates fare poorly in Illinois and Wisconsin, offering hope to the left…

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/apr/21/school-board-elections-illinois-wisconsin-republicans-lose

Jordan fires off first subpoenas against Biden admin - POLITICO

Garland and the FBI have strenuously rejected the GOP accusation — which fact checkers have also deemed false — saying their focus was on protecting school board members amid sharply escalating threats of violence, with no emphasis on parents or those raising policy concerns about Covid restrictions...

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/03/jim-jordan-subpoena-biden-administration-00081179

The Culture War Is Alive And Well In This Pennsylvania School District | HuffPost Latest News

"The board members are not interested in a democracy," Nazemi said. "What they want are either one of two things: public schools with Christian values, or public schools that fail so badly that we can then use our tax dollars to pay for private school."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pennsylvania-culture-wars-books_n_63612d97e4b039b01e1f8fc5

Colorado school board conservatives fire Douglas County Superintendent Corey Wise after ultimatum - The Washington Post

…Wise, voted in by the board last April, supported policies on in-school masking and equity that were overturned in the months since by four conservatives who campaigned against critical race theory and other diversity initiatives were elected to the board…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/05/colorado-conservative-school-board-fires-superintendent/

Proud Boys Regroup, Focusing on School Boards and Town Councils - The New York Times

Members of the Proud Boys, the far-right nationalist group, have increasingly appeared in recent months at town council gatherings, school board presentations and health department question-and-answer sessions across the country. Their presence at the events is part of a strategy shift by the militia organization toward a larger goal: to bring their brand of menacing politics to the local level.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/14/us/proud-boys-local-issues.html

Virginia school board meeting arrests: district divided over transgender policy - CNN

…Cross had argued that because of his Christian faith, it would be dishonest to call a child by a pronoun other than their biological sex at birth…

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/us/loudoun-county-school-board-meeting/index.html