A Texas town votes out its conservative school board amid book bans.

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Conservative Texas School Board Voted Out Amid Book Bans

One Republican said after the loss, "Mansfield has gone to Hell."

State Democrats argued that the results were a sharp rebuke of Republican Governor Greg Abbott's Texas school voucher policy.

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Texas school board has voted out three conservative members in Mansfield.

Why It Matters
Voters in Mansfield Independent School District (ISD) overhauled the school board in the May 3 election, with challengers unseating incumbents—including the board president and secretary—in all three contested races.

Texas is among the states that have seen a recent rise in book bans, with the Lone Star State issuing 625 bans during the 2022-23 academic year. The vote also followed a charged election season, fueled by heightened outside political involvement and growing debate over the influence of partisanship in local school governance.

What To Know
Ana-Alicia Horn, a data management professional in the event ticketing software industry, defeated incumbent Keziah Valdes Farrar in the race for the Mansfield ISD school board.

Horn secured 60.3 percent of the 12,356 votes cast, unseating Valdes Farrar, a Realtor and current board president who had served since 2021.

Jason Thomas, who manages road and bridge operations in Tarrant County's Precinct 2, unseated incumbent Craig Tipping in the Place 3 race. Tipping, a one-term board member with experience in physical therapy and roofing sales, secured 41.98 percent of the 12,269 total votes to Thomas' 58.02 percent.

Jesse Cannon II, the director of visual and performing arts for Fort Worth ISD, won the race against incumbent Bianca Benavides Anderson, a sales consultant completing her first term on the board. Cannon led with 58.6 percent of the 12,163 votes cast.

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-school-board-mansfield-election-day-2067789

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. It starts locally. And ends with holding the chief criminal responsible.

[newdeal2]

4. Nah the state will start restricting what cities can do

Red states especially hate their blue major cities like Austin and Nashville. So much for small government.

[Silent Type]

2. Good news.

[tanyev]

3. That happened in lots of places in Texas.

[Skittles]

5. yup, I made the effort to go vote

and I had researched everyone and nixed EVERY repuke - funny, they don't identify as such in their fliers but I found them anyways

[tanyev]

7. I signed up for emails from the local county GOP quite a while ago.

I’d rather know what they’re up to than be surprised. For this election they sent out a list of endorsements—in a nonpartisan election. I don’t recall seeing that from them before. But it was very helpful, because that told me who not to vote for and there were only a couple races where there were more than two candidates.

Imagine my surprise when the results came in and nearly everyone they endorsed lost their race! My city council races were a complete anti-GOP sweep. Two of my ISD races have to go to a runoff, but the GOP endorsed candidates were not the leaders in the final vote count. For this area, that’s amazing.

[BurnDoubt]

6. This is the bedrock of politics.