Watch: Key Midterm Takeaways About America’s Schools & the State of Ed Politics

Voters delivered powerful messages on Election Day, not all of them consistent: They want schools to focus on education, not culture wars. Vouchers got a boost in Oklahoma but were rejected in Wisconsin. The red wave never materialized, but neither did a blue one.

These post-election crosscurrents were the topic of a webinar sponsored by The 74 and the Progressive Policy Institute’s Reinventing America’s Schools project, featuring Andy Rotherham, a member of the Virginia State School Board and The 74’s Board of Directors; journalist and author Anya Kamenetz; Michael Hartney of the Hoover Institute; George Parker, former educator, teachers union president and adviser to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools; and 74 Senior Writer Kevin Mahnken. The event was moderated by PPI’s Tressa Pankovits.

Read The 74’s election coverage:

• Second-Highest Youth Midterm Voter Turnout in 3 Decades, Early Estimates Show
  

• DeSantis Solidifies Control of Florida Ed Policy With Pickup of 6 School Board Seats
  

• Wisconsin Re-Elects Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, Derails Push for School Vouchers
  

• Easily Winning 2nd Term, Oklahoma Gov. Stitt Plans to Move Forward on School Vouchers
  

• Read all of The 74’s 2022 election coverage here.