We are seeing extremist candidates throughout the state who support vouchers, oppose teaching emotional skills and offering mental health services, oppose efforts to make all children feel welcome at their schools, use academic misinformation to criticize current board members and districts, want to impose their opinions on books over the judgment of qualified school staff and other patrons, support limiting district revenue, etc. Many of them are sharing information from or aligning with organizations and individuals who have worked against our community schools. Many of them are also being supported by a national PAC based in New York...
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Suburban Parents Fighting Back against extremist group, Moms For Liberty
“A lot of this will sound familiar to people in districts that were taken over by extremists in the last school board elections. Do you know what’s better than reclaiming your board? Not losing it to Moms for Liberty, Moms for America, the 1776 Project PAC, etc. in the first place.” Read full article here: https://www.salon.com/2023/10/10/moms-for-liberty-meets-its-match-parents-in-this-swing-suburban-district-are-fighting-back/?fbclid=IwAR2x0eF5STqqg-FTu3edkPgiqlsNlxT9l98eC_tMAhuHHZ4O_zHcOCBV1PA Originally posted on Facebook, Oct. 11, 2023....
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Leave a Comment State Board of Ed not the place for limiting education materials and literary content, despite one member’s failed attempt
At the September Kansas State Board of Education meeting, Danny Zeck went on a tirade seeking a new requirement that teachers alert parents when they will have “smut” in instructional materials. We’ll try to unpack how wrong this was from the impropriety of Zeck’s proposal to his telling either Chair Melanie Haas or counsel Mark Ferguson, “You’re full of shit” when they tried to move on after over 20 minutes of discussion. Here are some main points to take away. 1. School districts already have policies for parents to express concerns/exempt their children from reading materials they don’t...
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Leave a Comment Extremists Vie for Seats on Blue Valley School Board
Don’t hand your school board over to extremists. From Champions For Lansing Education: “Here’s the thing: the last election didn’t flip the board from liberal to conservative- it flipped from moderate to extreme. The problem is the extremists like 1776 Project PAC & their endorsed candidates are so “Conservative” they see moderate views as a threat. This election, we want to flip it back to moderate. Early voting starts in 1 week- let’s do this.” Originally posted on Facebook on Oct. 10, 2023....
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