Republicans gain clout in state-sevel offices

11-03-2010

By Sean Cavanagh/Education Week

Republican candidates for governor raced to victory in a number of closely watched elections Tuesday, after campaigning on traditional conservative platforms that emphasized a return to local control over education and resistance to what they regarded as state and federal overreach in schools. In state school superintendents’ contests, GOP candidates also fared well, winning control of several offices that will allow them to play a major role in crafting education policy. Republicans also made big gains in their control of state legislative chambers, which has potentially big implications for the future of education policy and spending. As was the case in this year’s congressional races, Republicans had been expected to make major gains in state-level elections, and Tuesday’s results appeared to bear that prediction out. (more…)

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