School boards are under attack from far-right extremists across the United
States.

In my own Pennsylvania town, right-wing candidates tried to take over our
local school board as part of a $500,000 statewide effort funded by a
venture capitalist. It’s happening everywhere:

* ASSOCIATED PRESS: Conservative PACs Inject Millions into Local School
Races
* CHICAGO TRIBUNE: Conservatives Targeting School Board Races in Chicago
Suburbs
* LANSING PULSE: Five Local School Boards Targeted By Right-Wing Group

Together, we must fight back. We are launching a new SAVE OUR SCHOOL
BOARDS campaign to support over 200 progressive school board candidates
across the country with campaign resources and training to help them win.

We’ve helped hundreds of local candidates in recent years -- including
school board wins like Missy Zombor in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Katrina
Doughty in Multnomah County, Oregon. Now, we are going deeper with a
dedicated school board program.

[ [link removed] ]Will you be a founding supporter of SAVE OUR SCHOOL BOARDS? Donate what
you can toward our candidate training, resources, and support for 200
school board candidates fighting extremism in 2024.

(If you are a teacher or parent who has felt the impact of book banning or
a right-wing school board firsthand, [ [link removed] ]please take our survey here.)

The far-right sees school board races as a way to make gains with suburban
voters and take back swing districts by driving hysteria around "Critical
Race Theory" and other issues. It is part of their war on democracy --
banning books and writing things like the civil rights movement and
Trump's insurrection out of history.

We anticipate our program will cost $450,000. Our resources will guide
first-time school board candidates through gathering petition signatures,
creating a campaign plan, budgeting, and building a grassroots army.

Candidates we help will have the opportunity to meet with expert coaches
and get trained on talking to the media. We’ll even be able to buy data
and other resources at scale that most individual candidates could never
afford. [ [link removed] ]To do this, we need your support today.

Karl Frisch, who sits today on a Virginia school board that used to be
entirely Republican, says: "When running for office, I attended a PCCC
candidate training...The Progressive Change Campaign Committee knows
electing progressives on the local level is critically important --
especially to the school board where decisions impacting families are made
every day. I have been honored to have their support in my campaigns to
make sure every student has access to great schools with amazing
teachers."

[ [link removed] ]In local school board races -- many of which are won with budgets of
just a few thousand dollars -- our support can make the winning
difference. Will you be a founding supporter of SAVE OUR SCHOOL BOARDS?

Thanks for being a bold progressive.

-- Stephanie Taylor, PCCC co-founder ([ [link removed] ]@StephanieTaylor)

 

 

 

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