Voters in some of the highest-profile school board elections across the U.S. rebuked conservative candidates who want to ban books and restrict classroom conversations on race and gender. In recent years, down-ballot elections became proxy votes for polarizing national issues. Liberal and moderate candidates took control in high-profile races Tuesday in conservative Iowa, as well as swing states Pennsylvania and Virginia. The American Federation of Teachers said candidates publicly endorsed by conservative groups such as Moms for Liberty and the 1776 Project lost about 70% of their races nationally in elections this week — a tally those groups dispute. Randi Weingarten, the teachers union president, characterized the candidates who won as "pro-public school." "They don t want to engage in this banning of books or censoring of honest history or undermining who kids are," he told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
School board races have increasingly become a priority for some voters in recent cycles with mounting pressures from education culture wars. While school board candidates are meant to be nonpartisan, nearly all the candidates on the ballot were endorsed by a local political party.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — On Tuesday, voters across the U.S. largely rebuked conservative candidates in local school board elections who want to ban books and restrict classroom conversations on race and