{"id":29417,"date":"2022-10-23T17:24:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T17:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=29417"},"modified":"2022-10-23T17:24:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T17:24:52","slug":"these-pacs-are-funding-parents-rights-advocates-running-for-local-school-board-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2022\/10\/23\/these-pacs-are-funding-parents-rights-advocates-running-for-local-school-board-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"These PACS are funding &#8216;parents&#8217; rights advocates&#8217; running for local school board positions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>usa desk news: Across the country, new right-leaning political action committees are pouring money into school board races, aiming to flip control of who governs schools in favor of self-proclaimed parents rights advocates in a way that rivals the role that teachers unions have historically had in these contests.<br \/>\nFor much less than what it would cost them to influence a seat in the House or Senate, these PACs are putting thousands of dollars at a time \u2013 sometimes just hundreds \u2013 into races for local school boards and as a result, changing education on a national scale.<br \/>\nA super PAC called the 1776 Project PAC is leading the way, emphasizing opposition to lessons related to racial and social justice. With a war chest smaller than what some congressional candidates in competitive districts are raising, the group has supported and opposed school board candidates in a dozen states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>usa desk news: Across the country, new right-leaning political action committees are pouring money into school board races, aiming to flip control of who governs schools in favor of self-proclaimed parents rights advocates in a way that rivals the role that teachers unions have historically had in these contests. For much less than what it would cost them to influence a seat in the House or Senate, these PACs are putting thousands of dollars at a time &ndash; sometimes just hundreds &ndash; into races for local school boards and as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29419,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29417\/revisions\/29419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}