The anti crt group crows about flipping the conservative school boards
A conservative group that opposes critical race theory has celebrated after its supported candidates won local elections that flipped the ideological makeup of several Florida school boards.
The Political Action Committee (PAC) of the 1776 Project, which describes itself as “dedicated to electing school board members to campaign for the elimination of CRT from the public school curriculum,” boasted in a series of tweets Tuesday that his candidates would have won at least conservative majorities four school boards as a result of the normally bipartisan elections.
The PAC said it flipped the political makeup of five Florida County school boards: Miami-Dade, Duval, Martin, Clay and Sarasota. 1776 Project member Aiden Buzzetti tweeted that PAC candidates won 71 percent of Tuesday’s elections whileHUGE WIN“Turning Miami-Dade, one of the largest school districts in the country, to conservatives.
Also, the group working to instill conservative ideologies in school boards nationwide celebrated a recent decision by a Texas school board to ban CRT and block so-called “gender ideology.” The decision would allow teachers to confuse transgender students and discourage students from using bathrooms that conform to their gender identity.
“Yesterday, a Texas school board that we flipped last May banned CRT and gender ideology,” 1776 Project PAC tweeted. “Today, our PAC helped move FIVE Florida school boards from majority Liberal to Conservative, including Miami Dade. We are removing leftist ideologies from our schools, one district at a time.”
Yesterday a Texas school board that we flipped last May banned CRT and gender ideology.
Today, our PAC helped turn FIVE Florida school boards from majority Liberal to Conservative, including Miami Dade.
We are removing leftist ideologies from our schools, county by county
— 1776 Project Pac (@1776ProjectPac) August 24, 2022
The notion that CRT is taught in public schools, an academic concept that argues that racism has been institutionalized throughout US history, has become an increasingly popular conservative wedge issue in recent years, despite little evidence that the Theory is taught regularly in schools outside of the college.
Although Florida school board elections have been officially nonpartisan since 1998 and ballots do not indicate party affiliation of candidates, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis supported many of the same candidates supported by the 1776 Project PAC. Several of the governor-backed candidates are also parents who have been “very vocal” about previous COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in schools, according to NBC affiliate WPTV.
University of Central Florida history professor Dr. James Clark told CBS affiliate WKMG that he’s never heard of a governor voting in school board elections before. He suggested that DeSantis, who has warned about what he calls “awakened indoctrination” in public schools, could use the endorsements to gauge his popularity ahead of November’s general election.
“We’ve never seen anything like it,” Clark said of DeSantis’ endorsements. “I think it will show his influence and following across the state. He’s jeopardizing his prestige in 30 elections… He’s identified races and people he wants the challenger incumbent defeated and he’s going after them.”
news week reached out to the DeSantis office for comment.
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