California Family Council, or CFC, describes it as an "overwhelming series of victories for families.”
CFC said in a press release that a coalition of parental rights groups are grateful that voters saw what is at stake.
Greg Burt is vice president of California Family Council. He said in an interview with AFN that in California, the teachers union pretty much controls who is elected to school boards.
“And they're the ones that have been pushing these policies that say that kids can transition to a new gender, and the school employees and teachers are obligated to keep those transitioning, to keep that information from their parents. So, this has been a real big issue this past year."
He said CFC and many other family organizations have been pushing back and asking school districts to pass policies that require schools to simply notify parents if a child is starting to use a different name or pronoun at school.
There’s been pushback to CFC’s efforts.
"Secrets are bad. Teachers should not be keeping secrets from parents. That's been our message, and this last election cycle we had lots of folks run for school board against the union-backed candidates, and we are noticing a lot of them are winning."
30-plus wins and counting
Burt said his team has not been tracking them all, but they have a list of at least 32 school board election victories.
Some of these school districts include Chino Valley Unified, Temecula Valley Unified, and Capistrano Unified.
“Democrats in Sacramento have made it their priority to keep secrets from parents and control their kids in school, but we fought back at the local level, and we’re winning,” said state Assemblyman Bill Essayli, a Republican who coordinated with a broad coalition of parental rights groups to push for notification policies that were passed in 10 school districts.
The candidates “ran on the rights of parents to be the ultimate factor in their children's lives. Parents are rising up and saying we're no longer going to put up with a school district that tells its teachers to do things in secret,” Burt said.
