Sentences with phrase «influence school board races»

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Now, local members of the Wisconsin Education Association Council are turning their efforts toward school board races and reaching out to parents in an effort to eventually regain some influence in Madison.

Outside Spending Pours Into L.A. School Board Race Outside groups are mounting campaigns to influence the outcome of three races for seats on the Los Angeles Board of Education.

Today, most school board elections get single - digit turnouts, even in multi-million dollar races, making them especially vulnerable to the wrong interests: tax hawks opposed to spending, unionists seeking influence on both sides of the bargaining table, extremists who want to pervert curriculum, racists bent on perpetuating segregation, or reform zealots who seek to disrupt the status quo regardless of results or consequences.

Also, the outsized influence of the teachers» union in many local school board races requires a candidate to be a known and acceptable quantity to a powerful and trusted voting block.