PCCC's Save Our School Boards campaign is already making big national news!

ABC NEWS: The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) on Friday launched the "Save Our School Boards" campaign to boost more than 200 aligned school board candidates in the upcoming cycle. The group hopes to raise $450,000 to assist with collecting signatures to get on ballots, budgeting, sustaining grassroots support and so on.

POLITICO: The new initiative from the PCCC is the latest national effort to influence hyperlocal, low-turnout elections that catapulted to new prominence during the 2022 midterms and this spring’s initial off-year elections.

AMERICAN PROSPECT: Book bans, anti-trans policies, and critical race theory backlash all trace their origins to a rise in the right targeting education as a whole...The PCCC's "Save Our School Boards" campaign is focused on how school boards can prevent this.

Will you be a founding supporter of our SAVE OUR SCHOOL BOARDS campaign? Donate $3 or whatever you can toward our candidate training, resources, and support for 200 school board candidates fighting right-wing 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, 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.

Our resources will guide first-time school board candidates through gathering petition signatures, creating a campaign plan, budgeting, talking with voters and the media, and building a grassroots army of volunteers.

Candidates we help will have the opportunity to meet with expert coaches who will help refine their plans. We’ll even be able to buy data and other resources at scale that most individual candidates could never afford. To do this, we need your support today.

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.

Karl Frisch is a Fairfax, Virginia school board member who is running for re-election in November with PCCC’s support. Frisch told The American Prospect, "[PCCC’s] candidate training really helped flesh out what to do, and [how] to run an effective campaign that gets my message in front of the voters I need to win."

Now, we are taking this work deeper with a dedicated school board program.

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.

-- Hannah Riddle, PCCC Director of Candidate Services

We're also working to endorse and support 800 progressive candidates this cycle. It's is a huge effort.
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