100+ School Boards Flip Red Nationwide, Conservatives Pleased with Progress

While no overwhelming red wave emerged from the midterm national races, conservative groups involved in local school board races saw encouraging results.

Education certainly mattered to voters on the local level and that resulted in school boards in several states winning conservative majorities.  

Supporters see those wins as part of a larger trend giving Republicans the upper hand in this issue.    

The 2022 midterms follow two years of post-pandemic backlash.   

"Last year, almost everything we got on our tip line was about race. This year, probably about 75% is related to gender. A lot of the questions now are about social-emotional learning, data mining, and surveys were given without parental consent," said Nicole Neily of Parents Defending Education.   

Traditionally nonpartisan bodies, local school boards have turned fiercely political.