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The push to maintain nonpartisan school board elections in Indiana, as outlined by Terry Spradlin, overlooks a critical issue: voters often do not know enough about the candidates to make an informed decision. Identifying party affiliation would provide voters with a clear indicator of where a candidate stands on key educational policies and values, ensuring transparency in school governance.
School boards make significant decisions that shape the educational environment for children, including curriculum choices, library content, and administrative policies. Recent controversies, such as the inclusion of explicit materials in school libraries and a focus on progressive social agendas over fundamental academic skills, highlight the necessity of understanding a candidate’s ideological stance. Parents deserve to know whether a candidate supports policies that align with their own views on education.
Opponents argue that school boards should be free from politics, yet the reality is that political ideologies already influence many educational policies. Whether it is decisions on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs or policies on parental rights, school boards are making inherently political choices. Transparency through party identification would help ensure voters can hold candidates accountable for their positions.
Furthermore, concerns about narrowing the candidate pool due to partisan elections are overstated. Many positions currently have limited candidates because the public is disengaged from the process. Providing clear political affiliation could encourage more engagement and interest from voters who would otherwise struggle to differentiate among candidates.
Education is one of the most vital issues facing our communities and ensuring that school board elections are transparent is essential to maintaining accountability. Hoosier voters deserve to make fully informed decisions, and identifying party affiliation is a practical step toward achieving that goal. Maybe Judges should also be included?
So what you are saying is you want schools to not focus on “progressive social agendas” but instead on conservative social agendas. Neither outcome focuses on academics.
The conservative agenda is academics.