It’s time to admit that the approach of giving government school a monopoly over publicly funded education has led to a marked decline in the quality of the American school system as well as the sexual, racial, and political grooming of our youngest citizens.

School board members make important decisions that impact their community in many significant ways. Vetting candidates running for this sought-after position is a crucial part of local civic engagement and ensuring that public education policies and decisions are held to the highest of standards.

The school board consists of citizens elected by their community to make decisions about the local public school system based on community expectations, goals, and needs. School board members are responsible to implement the needs of students into policies that will support student achievement.

North Dakota conservatives respect the fundamental right and responsibility of parents to be the primary directors of the upbringing, education, and care of their children without the unwelcome influence from activist educators and government overreach.

The prevailing narrative of racial grievance has been corrupting the education of American history and the humanities for many years, but has accelerated dangerously over the past few years.

Social Emotional Learning is being disguised as an integral and beneficial part of education and childhood development, but in truth, SEL is a vehicle for the poisonous and cult-like tenets of Critical Race Theory and Gender Theory. The primary goal of SEL is to turn students into activists by shaping their opinions and behaviors to align with leftist ideologies and policies.