Wyoming School Boards Lean Far Right After Election

School boards are supposed to be nonpartisan. However, if you take a look into their voting history, it's clear every board reflects deep-rooted political opinions.

This recent election brought more farther-right candidates to Wyoming's school boards.

Wyoming school board candidates ran campaigns with slogans like "Make Education Great Again."

A 2021 Wyoming bill offered in the state house would have required school board candidates to have a party affiliation on the ballot.

Just because they don't tell you what party they are affiliated with does not mean that the candidate does not have a left or right-leaning slant. So, the idea behind the bill was for candidates to just come out and admit what direction they lean.

The bill was never introduced.

The Wyoming Family Alliance was heavily involved in Wyoming's public school elections this year. Their stated goal is to bring education back to traditional reading, writing, and arithmetic, and away from what they see as "leftist social engineering."

Just as we saw a national trend toward the conservative right in the election, so went many of Wyoming's school board elections.

Alongside the school boards, the Wyoming House and Senate are more controlled by the Wyoming Freedom Caucus than ever.

The Wyoming Freedom Caucus will work hand-in-hand with these newly elected school board members on issues such as making students use the restroom that aligns with their biological sex.

Some of the changes new conservative board members want to make may have been a problem during a Biden/Harris administration since so much local school funding comes from the Federal government.

That is expected to change greatly under the Trump administration, which is also in line with those more conservative goals.