Voters across Wisconsin will head to the polls April 7 to choose their local school board representatives.
Records show some of those candidates were hand-picked by a national conservative political group that spent more than $160,000 this spring on local public school board races.
Spending by the New York-based 1776 Project PAC is up 240 percent on Wisconsin races this year compared to 2025, according to records from the Wisconsin Ethics Commission.
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