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policies, transgender sport policies, the crux of the debate is who is best positioned to make decisions for a child? a parent or the government? reporter: roach is pushing a constitution alg amendment in florida that would force school board candidates to run under partisan affiliation. board members like vaughn don t represent the ideology of conservative lee county. vaughn say registered democrat but says critics are misrepresenting what her school board s agenda is on masks and critical race theory. it s not a theory that we would be teaching, you know, maybe in some advanced class, perhaps but it s not the kind of thing that we would normally teach in school. reporter: florida republicans, including governor ron desantis, say school boards have a dangerous influence. they tie masking to debates over things like race. we re also not going to support any republican candidate for school board who supports critical race theory and all 67 counties or who supports
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personal opinion bringing in more people for their agenda. reporter: vaughn is right. yeah, my constituents are pissed. we re seeing 500 to 1,000 people attending school board meetings now that couldn t draw a crowd of 20 to 30 people prior to covid. reporter: republican state representative spencer roach is thrilled that mask mandates are bringing new people in to the crusade against public education. i never used the word public school. i use the term government school because that s what they are. and should be looked at in the same context as government housing or government health care. so i think this anger really you mean like there shouldn t be government schools or what are you saying? i think as a parent, you should do everything possible to avoid having your child in a government school. reporter: roach doesn t support mask mandates but he s really over control over classrooms. whether critical race theory or sex education, whether you re talking about sc