Jeff Timmer, former chair of the Michigan GOP, who has soured on the party and backed President Joe Biden, said it's at the school level where he has grown increasingly concerned about radicalization.
"If these people get into positions of school boards, they will start to set curriculum. And that will have a long-term effect," Timmer said, adding that the push for activists to run for school board seats is "as or more alarming than anything I've seen so far."
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, one of the country's largest unions ... said the focus on schools is part of the right's broader search for wedge issues ahead of the midterm elections next year.
"It's about constant destabilization, creating anger, exploiting the anxiety that people have right now," she said. "it is also kind of rooted in the destabilization of the institutions in America that have, you know, long been used to unify the country. Like great neighborhood public schools."
> Jeff Timmer, former chair of the Michigan GOP, who has soured on the party and backed President Joe Biden, said it's at the school level where he has grown increasingly concerned about radicalization.
> "If these people get into positions of school boards, they will start to set curriculum. And that will have a long-term effect," Timmer said, adding that the push for activists to run for school board seats is "as or more alarming than anything I've seen so far."
> Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, one of the country's largest unions ... said the focus on schools is part of the right's broader search for wedge issues ahead of the midterm elections next year.
> "It's about constant destabilization, creating anger, exploiting the anxiety that people have right now," she said. "it is also kind of rooted in the destabilization of the institutions in America that have, you know, long been used to unify the country. Like great neighborhood public schools."
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