How a rising conservative movement in Delaware is targeting school board elections [View all]

On the steps of Legislative Hall on a March afternoon, five school board candidates stood before a crowd calling for a complete reopening of Delaware public schools.

“We have a lot of radicals that are controlling our school boards,” said Lisa McCulley, a lead organizer of Stand Up Delaware. Since the start of the pandemic, the grassroots group had held rally after rally calling Gov. John Carney’s COVID-19 restrictions an infringement on individual liberties.

She pointed to Appoquinimink School District as an example, a school board with “one awesome conservative” overruled by “three women who control the whole board.”

“We have to stop that, guys,” she told the crowd. “It may take us a few years. But we can change things. Within three years, we can change things completely. But we have to stop being complacent.”

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