{"id":316,"date":"2002-12-20T12:59:38","date_gmt":"2002-12-20T17:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bettypeters.com\/bettypeters\/?p=316"},"modified":"2019-09-05T13:06:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T17:06:31","slug":"peters-elected-to-state-school-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bettypeters.com\/bettypeters\/2002\/12\/20\/peters-elected-to-state-school-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Peters Elected to State School Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This excerpt is from an article that was originally posted at the Eagle Forum upon Betty&#8217;s initial election to the Alabama School Board in 2002.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Election Update &#8211; Good news for grassroots!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grassroots activists in many states have much to celebrate following last month&#8217;s mid-term elections. Pro-family candidates prevailed in a number of important races at the federal, state, and local levels, some despite tremendous odds. One David vs. Goliath effort occurred in Alabama, where Eagle Forum leader <strong>Betty Peters was elected to the State Board of Education by 1,700 votes out of more than 150,000 cast<\/strong>. Her opponent, Democrat Charlotte Kirkland Williams, was supported by the Alabama Education Association (AEA), the state affiliate of the NEA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Betty knew her real opponent was the AEA,&#8221; Alabama Republican Assembly President Frank Myers stated in an editorial on Nov. 6. &#8220;The Birmingham News actually called the race one between the Eagle Forum and the AEA. The AEA-supported PACs and other liberal PACs heavily financed the Democrat candidates, while Betty had only a few thousand dollars in contributions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Myers noted that &#8220;many friends and supporters&#8221; helped Mrs. Peters win, adding that &#8220;she had the right message&#8221; in promoting education based on proven methods and common sense.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Peters is a self-made education expert. As conservative political pundit Diane Alden noted, &#8220;Betty is not an educational hack but an accountant who has become one of the South&#8217;s most knowledgeable experts on the failures of public education and alternative plans to counter those failures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Peters will represent both city and county public school systems in 14 counties as a member of the state board. &#8220;She will bring a breath of fresh air to the board,&#8221; Myers asserted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This excerpt is from an article that was originally posted at the Eagle Forum upon Betty&#8217;s initial election to the Alabama School Board in 2002. Election Update &#8211; Good news for grassroots! Grassroots activists in many states have much to celebrate following last month&#8217;s mid-term elections. Pro-family candidates prevailed in a number of important races [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bettypeters.com\/bettypeters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bettypeters.com\/bettypeters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bettypeters.com\/bettypeters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettypeters.com\/bettypeters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettypeters.com\/bettypeters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettypeters.com\/bettypeters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettypeters.com\/bettypeters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bettypeters.com\/bettypeters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettypeters.com\/bettypeters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bettypeters.com\/bettypeters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}