Taking back the school boards

Those of us who pay (probably too much) attention to the political landscape understand that local elections are extremely important insofar as their results are the most likely to affect your day-to-day life directly.

But they’re also the elections with the lowest voter turnout rates and the least amount of media buzz, which suggests the public simply doesn’t care about them as much as they should.

There’s reason to believe, however, that this is changing. In Florida this week, voters flipped dozens of local school board seats, electing conservative candidates supported by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Normally, school board elections are boring afterthoughts.