A usually banal school board election is at the center of a culture war. Author: Maggie Vespa Updated: 12:16 AM PDT May 1, 2021
BEAVERTON, Ore. School board elections, which usually remain free of politics, have become controversial in the Portland metro area this year.
A race making headlines in the past week involves candidates for Beaverton School District s Zone #1: incumbent Susan Greenberg versus Conservative newcomer Jeanette Schade.
Both women declined KGW s requests for an interview this week. Schade has hitched her platform on a culture war being fought on the local and national scale right now. Her slogan? Kids Over Politics.
At an online candidates forum hosted by the district Wednesday, Schade said Beaverton schools should get rid of lesson plans on sexual orientation and gender identity. She also said she wanted to do away with the critical race theory, (CRT) a controversial teaching method that some believe local schools ar