Turnabout is fair play.
The Minnesota School Board Integrity Project has stepped into increasingly weaponized school board elections in Minnesota's culture wars,
Last week, I posted about the organized effort to get conservative extremists elected to school boards across Minnesota in Education MN teachers union, advocates caution about ‘extremist’ school board candidates.
Reporting for Minnesota Public Radio, Elizabeth Shockman has an update in New group with focus on Minnesota school board candidates launches:
Amid concerns that a rising number of candidates with extreme views are seeking school board seats in Minnesota, groups across the political spectrum continue to organize and promote candidates that back their views.
The latest: the Minnesota School Board Integrity Project, a non-profit that’s raising money and training candidates for board elections.
“We know that there is a concerted effort to take over our school boards. This is not Florida, this is not Texas, this is Minnesota,” Kyrstin Schuette, executive director of the School Board Integrity Project, told supporters Monday.
School supporters, she said, need to watch out for candidates who say they want parents to have a voice in schools but may be focused on eroding public education. . . .
Schuette says she sees her organization in opposition to the Minnesota Parents Alliance — a conservative group that launched in 2022 to recruit, train and endorse school board candidates.
“I think our values are in opposition to them. I don’t think it’s Democrats vs. Republicans, progressives vs. conservatives. I see this as right vs. wrong,” Schuette said. ...
The Minnesota Parents Alliance, a conservative group that launched in 2022 to recruit, train and endorse school board candidates last year, has endorsed more than 40 candidates in 20 different districts as well as invested time training candidates.
Education Minnesota has put together a list of dozens of school board candidates endorsed by local unions in 11 districts. And OutFront Minnesota, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group has made candidate endorsements in 17 districts. . . .
Read or listen to the deets at MPR. Learn more about the new organization at its website Minnesota School Board Integrity Project.
Image: Minnesota School Board Integrity Project's logo.
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