It hasn’t received much attention since Election Day, but local school board races across the country continue to show welcome political ferment. More parents are refusing to let unions dominate education governance without a fight.
Exhibit A is Florida, where Gov.
Ron DeSantis
made a special cause of school board races. “We got involved to help candidates who were fighting the machine, fighting the lock-downers, fighting the forced-maskers, fighting the people that want to indoctrinate our kids,” he said in August.
Of the 34 candidates Mr. DeSantis endorsed in 2022, 29 have won. The parental-rights organization Moms for Liberty counts six Florida school boards that flipped to parental-rights majorities. That includes Miami-Dade County, where
Joe Biden
beat
53.4% to 46.1% in 2020, and where Mr. DeSantis made two successful endorsements.
On Nov. 8 all nine school board seats were up for election in Charleston County, S.C., which went for Mr. Biden 55.5% to 42.6% in 2020. Moms for Liberty endorsed candidates for eight of the seats, and five won. One seat is still up for grabs after a candidate who wasn’t endorsed by Moms for Liberty won but said she had withdrawn from the race and left the state.
Tara Wood,
the chair of Charleston County’s Moms for Liberty chapter, said parents wanted the schools to focus on essentials, but the old school board members were “all about social and racial justice” and championed “programs and curriculum that has nothing to do with reading, writing and doing math.”
Moms for Liberty says it also helped flip the school boards in South Carolina’s Berkeley County and the York County Rock Hill School District, New Jersey’s Cape May County and North Carolina’s New Hanover County. At least 114 of the 270 school board candidates Moms for Liberty endorsed won on…
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