Michigan Democrats Sweep Races for Statewide Education Posts

From Michigan’s publicly elected State Board of Education to the boards of trustees of three universities, the Nov. 8 election put Democrats even more firmly in charge of education policy in the state.
Voters filled every one of the statewide elective education positions on the ballot with a Democrat, despite a robust conservative parental rights movement at the grassroots level that carried 48 of its candidates to victory in local school board races, according to Chalkbeat Detroit, a nonprofit education journal.
Two Democrats captured the two seats that the eight-member State Board of Education had on the ballot this year.
And when newly reelected Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer fills a vacancy created by a Democrat member who resigned during the summer, the makeup of the board will be six Democrats and two Republicans….}

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