When the Cypress-Fairbanks ISD board started removing chapters related to vaccines and climate change from state-approved textbooks, a group of parents and community leaders slowly mobilized, espousing the mantra, “Don’t get mad. Get elected.”

A trio of school board seats are up for grabs in a November 4 election and while it’s not clear yet whether all three incumbents Natalie Blasingame , Scott Henry, and Lucas Scanlon will seek re-election, a slate of progressive “pro-public education” candidates has already filed to “take back” the district from trustees they refer to as Christian nationalists.

The current school board, which has a 6-1 conservative majority , has been criticized not just for altering district curricula but for wasting time talking about pronouns and book bans

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