Election of Mike Allman to San Dieuito Union High School Board Achieves MAGA Majority
By Thomas Ultican / Tultican / March 15, 2021
One of America’s wealthiest public school districts typifies the damage MAGA Republicans are doing to public schools.
San Diego County’s San Dieguito Union High School District (SDUHSD) serves just over 13,000 students in five middle schools and five high schools. With former Republican congressional candidate Mike Allman’s narrow school board victory, a MAGA coalition has achieved a 3 to 2 majority.
This election result advances using school reopening as a political wedge issue. Normally nonpartisan school board elections have been turned into partisan political battle grounds.
May 25, 2020, the former President Tweeted,
“Schools in our country should be opened ASAP. Much very good information now available. @SteveHiltonx @FoxNews
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 25, 2020”
In July, the former Secretary of Education declared,
“School leaders across the country need to be making plans’ to have students in the classroom. There will be exceptions to the rule, but the rule should be kids go back to school this fall. And where there are little flare-ups or hot spots, that can be dealt with school by school or a case-by-case basis. There’s ample opportunity to have kids in school.”
Carl Hulse’s Feb. 12, 2021 New York Times article ran under the banner, “Republicans Seize on Shuttered Schools as a Political Rallying Cry” with a subtitle stating, “As President Biden struggles to keep his CONTINUE READING: MAGA Politics Have Arrived at a San Diego School District