Conservative Candidates Clean Up in Florida School Board Races

Several boards saw their political orientation flip entirely, to conservative from liberal-leaning majorities, including Miami-Dade County, the largest in the state and now the largest district in the country to be run by a right-leaning school board.

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Governor DeSantis at a rally Tuesday. AP/Gaston De Cardenas

Conservative voters in Florida sent the strongest signal yet of dissatisfaction with the role of progressive politics in public education, electing most of a slate of local school board candidates endorsed by the Republican governor, Ron DeSantis.

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