First, local control is a myth. Education is legislated at the state level.

Second, that legislation is NOT for the students, parents, or society. It is for teachers, administrators, and employees. The goal is to eat taxes, not educate citizens.

Third, school boards are and artifice. They are designed to create the illusion of “local control” so they can tap the mother lode of property taxes to fund the insatiable greed of the education establishment.

This is why ANY AND ALL “take over” of school boards” is a waste of time. Any district where conservatives win will be isolated, and they will lose in the next election.

If you want to change education policy, you need to work at the state level. To do so, you have to make the current system unpopular.

STOP being afraid of teacher’s unions, administrative liars, and their pay and pension piggery. Relentlessly attack them, connecting the waste and greed to property taxes.

Drive “public education” down under 50% support in the suburbs, and then gut them like the pigs they are.

Ban strikes, fire 90% of administration, and pass school choice.

Here’s the thing about school boards. I know because I was on one. Keep in mind, school board candidates are usually parents who have a specific issue with the district. Maybe some of them don’t like a particular administrator, maybe they’re upset that a particular program or activity might be in jeopardy. Running for school board is no different than running for any other political office; it cost money and manpower. Guess who’s usually the first in line to assist with those. It’s usually the teachers union. Unlike most other political offices, school board members are not paid and there’s not much they can do to personally profit from being on the board. Once a candidate gets in a race and sees how much money and manpower it would take to run competitively, they are willing to accept help from wherever it comes from, and the most willing is the teachers union. If businesses or other taxpayer groups put up the same levels of support that teachers unions come up with, there would be better representation. Most voters know very little about school board candidates; the press gives them very little unpaid publicity. Those with the most resources are usually the ones who win.

If businesses or other taxpayer groups put up the same levels of support that teachers unions come up with, there would be better representation.

I’ve helped school board campaigns, I’ve sued school boards. I’ve testified at boards re: policy.

Your sentence above is not false in theory, but in practice reformers, even if they win, are stifled, outvoted, and undermined.

If a board is “taken over,” it become one or two out of 14,000 targeted with resources, and take back in the next election.

Personally, get your kid out of far left schools (nearly all), and home school.

As a matter of policy, destroy the current system, and have money follow the child to a vast new array of private, charter, and independent schools.

And yes, the most “systemically racist” structure in America is the “school district.” Destroy it.

The best way to defeat corrupt educational system is with School Choice. By taking away funding is the only way. If we just remove our children, the school districts still receive our tax dollars. Not a real deterrent.