Suburban school board races in Minnesota emerge as partisan battlegrounds

Campaign signs have popped up in clusters and candidates are offering more pointed messaging than voters typically hear in suburban school board races: Educate, not indoctrinate, they say. Academics, not activism.

These are conservative voices and they're rising - many as part of multicandidate slates - seeking to flip school board seats in elections next week and then set what they describe as a new common-sense direction.

Fervent challenges to racial equity policies have turned what are sometimes sleepy off-year elections into partisan battles across Twin Cities metro suburbs, from South Washington County to Wayzata to White Bear Lake. In Bloomington, candidate Natalie Marose, a teacher and school administrator, decries the distribution of Black Lives Matter T-shirts to staff members and an embrace by some of gender-inclusive restrooms.

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