Texas’ traditionally sleepy school board races are suddenly attracting attention — and money. | via TexasTribune
Parents demonstrate in front of the Frisco Independent School District building demanding a mask mandate for the district and improved sanitation and air conditions for students in Frisco on Sept. 10, 2021. The demonstration was organized by Unified Parents of Frisco, formed in response to the pandemic and its consequences on their children’s lives and education.
But now, two years later, there’s a laser focus on school board races as angry debates over masks, race and sex have unfolded between parents and school boards on weekday nights all over the state. Although school board races are nonpartisan, it’s never been hard to determine what political stripe a candidate bears depending on which school issues a candidate holds dear. But those subtle differences have become more pronounced and voters can now easily identify who is a Republican and who is a Democrat.
Christian Alvarado, a Lake Travis ISD parent and one of the PAC’s founders, said in a Facebook post on Feb. 3 that parents should be making choices for their kids and that he does not believe in the “modern progressivism that claims my kids are oppressed because they are Hispanic.”
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