The blue wave that swept across the U.S. on Election Day was a boon for Colorado’s teacher unions, which saw their candidates sweep school board elections across the state.

The unions not only foiled the plans of so-called reformers to flip control of the Denver school board, but they also saw their candidates clinch seats — and, in some cases, win board majorities — in conservative districts, such as in Douglas County and Grand Junction.

The unions’ wins were partly due to low turnout during an off-year election, but the results also offer a rebuke to the Republican Party’s culture wars that have played out in schools in recent years, according to political observers, who said families may be tiring of book bans and fights over curriculum and gender-neutral bathrooms.

Tuesday’s re

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