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- The Colorado School Board nominees, backed by a new PAC, swept their races this week.
- The 1776 Project PAC says it is actively trying to prevent critical racial theory from being taught in classrooms.
- It supported 55 candidates across the country, most of whom won their local elections on Tuesday.
The Colorado School Board candidates, supported by a new PAC campaigning nationwide against critical racial theory, swept their races in the local elections on Tuesday.
The 11 candidates were supported by the Conservatives 1776 PAC Project, a national group that was launched in May and says it is actively trying to prevent critical racial theory from being taught in classrooms.
In Douglas County, south of Denver, four of the PAC-backed candidates raised over $ 300,000 ahead of their hotly contested election – nearly $ 200,000 more than their opposition Campaign Funding Reports.
And in El Paso County’s Falcon District 49 election, the two PAC-backed winning candidates raised almost as much as the other five candidates combined, according to funding reports.
All three Colorado counties that hosted school councils voted for former President Donald Trump over President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, despite Biden winning the entire state.
In other states that Biden won in 2020, such as New Jersey and Pennsylvania, local school board candidates, supported by the 1776 Project PAC, also claimed victory.
Across the country, by 1,776, Project PAC had supported 55 candidates in seven states, many of whom had won their local elections this week.
The proposed teaching of Critical Racial Theory in class, which the group is actively trying to stop, is one of many culture war issues that have become hot topics at school council meetings across the country in recent months.
School board meetings have become battlefields where social and cultural wars are waged over issues such as race, masking and vaccine requirements.
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