BREAKING NEWS: President Trump just put millions of students at risk by signing an executive order that will decimate the Department of Education.

The New York Times reports, "Caught in the middle are the nation’s 50 million public school pupils, 15 percent of whom have disabilities...and undergraduate students who receive Pell Grants because they qualify as low-income (nearly one-third of all college students) and those who receive federal student loans (about 28 percent)."

The PCCC's Save Our School Boards program is now more critical than ever.

School board candidates supported by our Save Our School Boards program have fended off right-wing extremists, defeated entrenched ultraconservative incumbents, and flipped purple seats. After hard-fought victories last cycle, Save Our School Boards candidates represent over 1,863,000 students in 40 school districts.

We're working to rapidly expand our Save Our School Boards program that helps elect pro-public-education school board members in critical races across the country. Can you chip in? Please donate here.

School boards across the country have blocked right-wing extremists book-banning attempts, fended off attacks on public education, protected the rights of trans students, and even developed response plans to protect students from ICE raids on school property.

BUT when right-wing extremists are elected, school boards often abandon the needs of students and focus instead on banning books, attacking LGBTQ+ communities, forcing religious instruction, and mandating the teaching of inaccurate and incomplete history.

In the last election cycle, our Save Our School Boards program supported over 100 school board members in 29 states. With Trump shuttering the Department of Education, we are working to support many more pro-public-education candidates this cycle.

With your help, the Save Our School Boards program provides pro-public-education candidates with campaign plans, budgets, messaging, and fundraising strategies to help combat right-wing extremism on school boards. This cycle we will also provide rapid-response materials to help them fight back against Trump’s authoritarian overreach.

Can you chip in to help expand our Save Our School Boards program to serve many more pro-public-education candidates this year and next? Together, lets commit to protecting the education and rights of tens of thousands more children.

Thanks for being in this fight.

-- The PCCC Elections Team (Follow us on BlueSky: @BoldProgressives.org)

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