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Sunday, December 11th, 2022

The Right Has Expanded Its Dark Money Strategy for Dominating School Boards

Author:     Alyssa Bowen
Source:     truthout
Publication Date:     December 9, 2022
 Link: The Right Has Expanded Its Dark Money Strategy for Dominating School Boards
Stephan:   The Republican Party is doing everything it can to destroy public education, and turn it into public indoctrination, just as they do in North Korea. Why are they doing this? Because multiple studies have shown that children who are educated on a factual basis, particularly if they go to college, tend to vote Democratic. Only the poorly educated, or uneducated tend to vote Republican. The people who run the party know this, and want to stay in power, so the obvious strategy is what they are doing. Destroy fact-based public education.
Members of Moms For Liberty and other supporters attend a campaign event for Jacqueline Rosario in Vero Beach, Florida, on October 16, 2022.
Credit: Giorgio Viera / AFP / Getty

Following the November elections, staffers from several dark money anti-public school groups — Moms for Liberty (M4L), Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) and Parents Defending Education (PDE) — took to the media to tout the supposed success of far right school board candidates.

One IWF staffer described the results of local and state public education races as a bright spot for Republicans in an overall disappointing midterm, representing a “red undercurrent” where a “red wave” failed to appear.

In reality, right-wing school board candidates backed by such groups did not sweep their races, far from it. In particular, M4L, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that keeps its funders secret from the public, and its state PACs, which endorsed more than 500 school board candidates this year, lost the majority of the races the group endorsed in.

But the infrastructure that M4L and other dark money anti-public education groups have built up will likely […]

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