Indiana’s DEI fight moves from Statehouse to classrooms as school board elections turn partisan

By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen September 21, 2026 As Indiana prepares for its first school board elections in which candidates can identify their political party affiliation on the ballot, conservative elected officials and activists are increasingly focusing on individual schools and the boards that oversee them, arguing that efforts to eliminate what they call “DEI” or “woke ideology” have not gone far enough. The Indiana Family I ...