From Education Voters of Pennsylvania (http://www.educationvoterspa.org/):
Pennsylvanians who care about public education have a lot at stake in 2023. Voters will elect school board members in every school district except Philadelphia, which has a board that is appointed by the mayor.
School board members have enormous power to shape the culture and priorities of the districts they are elected to represent.
Any school district with a board that is taken over by extremists in 2023 could find their board spending their time and wasting the community’s property tax dollars defending book bans, anti-LGBTQ policies and teacher censorship instead of working to ensure that students have access to a high-quality education in a safe and welcoming environment.
Due to very high demand, we have scheduled additional information sessions to help people learn about the roles and responsibilities of school boards in Pennsylvania, what it takes to run, the requirements for being a candidate, and important dates in the election season.
Even if you don’t want to run for the school board, at this session you will learn more about how to be engaged locally to ask questions about key policy positions so you can understand how candidates would approach the job and help ensure that candidates pay attention to your priorities.
Go to https://www.mobilize.us/democracypa/event/546130/ to sign up for one of our school board information sessions and share the link with your networks.
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