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As election day approaches on November 2nd, many localities are preparing for local and regional races to vote in new governors, state representatives, township officials, and school board members. Across the country, local elections have turned into contentious political battlegrounds to advance the agendas of national leadership as much as those of community members. In an era of hyper polarization, local elections have become high stakes flashpoints that reflect broader controversies.<\/p>\n
\u5728\u8d39\u57ce\u897f\u5317\u90e8\u5207\u65af\u7279\u90e1\uff08Chester County\uff09\u7684Tredyffrin\/Easttown (T\/E)\u5b66\u533a\uff0c\u4e00\u4e9b\u793e\u533a\u6210\u5458\u6b63\u8d70\u51fa\u4ed6\u4eec\u7684\u8212\u9002\u533a\uff0c\u8fdb\u5165\u5f53\u5730\u653f\u754c\u3002\u5176\u4e2d\u5305\u62ec\u7b2c\u4e00\u6b21\u53c2\u52a0\u653f\u6cbb\u7ade\u9009\u7684Deana Wang\u738b\u5cf0\uff0c\u5979\u6b63\u5728\u7ade\u9009\u6821\u8463\u4e8b\u4f1a\u6210\u5458\u3002<\/p>\n
In the Tredyffrin\/Easttown (T\/E) School District, just Northwest of Philadelphia in Chester County, some community members are stepping out of their comfort zones to enter local politics. This includes Deana Wang, a first-time political candidate who is running for school board.<\/p>\n
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Deana Wang is a first-generation immigrant from China who moved to the United States in young adulthood. She settled in the T\/E School district in 2009 with her husband Eric and two children, Aaron and Shania, to benefit from one of the best school districts in the region. As a long-time and engaged member of the community, Wang decided to transform her dedication to service into running in the local school board election.<\/p>\n
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During the May 18 Primary Election, Wang, who is running as a GOP candidate, won the Republican vote in a landslide in Region 2 with an 87% vote over candidate Robert Singh. She was also on the Democratic ballot as T\/E allows for cross-party filing. On the Democratic ballot, Wang won 21% of the Democratic vote. Now she is on the ballot for the single Region 2 seat for the Board of Education.<\/p>\n
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Like many first-generation immigrants, Wang aspired to the \u201cAmerican dream\u201d and long ago decided to engage in her community and explore service and leadership opportunities. Wang has experience serving the Asian and Asian American communities in the US going back 20 years to her graduate school days as a student leader. More recently, she held roles as the Parent Teacher Organization Chair at a local Chinese school and co-founder of the Chinese American Parent Association at T\/E School District. As a regular attendee at school board meetings and her children\u2019s school events, Wang knew she could take on the challenge of having a bigger role in the community, and a role that would represent both Asian American residents and T\/E residents as a whole. \u201cThat is what is beautiful about the American Dream: to be educated and to work hard. So I wanted to bring that value and provide that influence to the entire T\/E community.\u201d Her dedication to service is partly inspired by her son, Aaron, who is currently serving our nation as a West Point University cadet. \u201cThis is probably running in our veins to be community servers,\u201d Wang says.<\/p>\n
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Although a registered Republican candidate, Wang doesn\u2019t see education as political. As an immigrant who moved to the US at 23 for grad school, Wang does not have \u201cstrong political sides to take on\u201d as she came from China, where there were no opportunities to engage in politics at all. Coming to the United States, Wang realized governing was something that was a team effort, especially when it comes to children\u2019s education.<\/p>\n
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Those who were raised in the political battlegrounds of the United States have seen education and local matters elevated to new fronts of division. One of the most prominent issues in local education lately has been the discourse over whether Critical Race Theory (CRT) should be taught in schools. One fundamental disagreement over the issue is what exactly CRT is and whether it is truly being taught in schools.<\/p>\n
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An academic theory founded in the 1970s by legal scholars such as Derrick Bell and Richard Delgado, CRT analyzed race as a social construct, and that racially oppressive barriers have led to various obstacles to equity. While in contrast to most Democratic leaders and voters, right-leaning officials and individuals ascribe sinister motives behind CRT and allege that CRT has inappropriately expanded beyond academic circles into grade school curriculums. The issue has surfaced in local and state levels across the country. In our region, it has led to acrimonious debate, including screaming matches at board meetings in towns like Phoenixville, not far from T\/E.<\/p>\n
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In Pennsylvania, CRT as originally defined is not included in the public school curriculum. Individual districts can implement aspects or related topics as part of curriculum development. While the T\/E district has not implemented CRT into its schools, they do have a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) program taught to teachers and staff through a third-party vendor called Pacific Education Group. With the plan to eventually extend the workshops to students, the DEI program was hired in 2018 by the district with the goal to \u201cengage in sustained partnerships with educational organizations to transform beliefs, behaviors, and results so people of all races can achieve at their highest levels and live their most empowered and powerful lives\u201d (tesd.net). The common complaint with the program is that the teachings of it are vague in description, leaving parents to wonder what is going on behind school walls. And there are questions as to whether aspects of DEI training are grounded in CRT.<\/p>\n
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In Pennsylvania, the Sunshine Act states that any public agency, including school boards, must have public meetings where information is transparent and shared with the communities, and it is to be the \u201cright of the public to be present at all meetings of agencies and to witness the deliberation, policy formulation and decision making of agencies\u201d (Pennsylvania Sunshine Act). According to the district, parents can find out about the curriculum by contacting the students\u2019 teacher or school principal directly. However, when the public of the T\/E district, including Deana Wang, inquired about what was taught in the DEI program, Wang said the school board conveyed to her via email that they could not share the information since they had signed a nondisclosure agreement with Pacific Education Group. Angered by perceived lack of transparency over what was being taught to teachers and\/or students in schools and how residents’ tax dollars are spent, parents of the T\/E district are left inquiring about the pedagogical framework of this program.<\/p>\n
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This lack of transparency is a leading factor that led Wang to enter the election for school board. With T\/E as a top district in education, Wang and other parents saw the silence as unacceptable, especially during the tumultuous climate of a global pandemic, fractious political discourse, and the unfamiliarity of virtual and hybrid learning. The lack of communication between the school district and families manifested in many ways, one in the form of fiscal opaqueness. For the past 17 years, the T\/E school district has seen rising property taxes, with no explanation on where the additional funds have gone.<\/p>\n
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In 2019, the T\/E School District was investigated for an accounting error of $1.2 million from Special Education invoices. Despite the million-dollar difference in budget, which was brought to attention in multiple school board meetings, parents of the district received no explanation as to where the money went and how the error would impact the budget for the upcoming school year. Serious miscommunications such as these inspired Wang\u2019s promise to be \u201ctransparent in operation and accountable to [T\/E] residents\u201d in her election campaign.<\/p>\n
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Located on the outskirts of Philadelphia, the T\/E district has a very diverse student population. At 23.3%, almost a quarter of the student population of the T\/E school district is of Asian descent.\u00a0 Deana Wang feels that she has a responsibility and an opportunity to be a role model for civic engagement to these students and their families. First generation immigrants of Asian descent rarely run for political office, and doing so can be a positive change for communities like T\/E. If elected, Wang wants to introduce more aspects that Asian families value into the community through education, such as putting education first and becoming active engagers in community happenings. \u201cAsian people are known to cherish education for their children\u2019s future.\u201d Her election would also hopefully inspire more Asian American families to involve themselves in school and community events.<\/p>\n
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Of course, Wang also aims to represent the community as a whole regardless of ethnic background. As an involved community member who is dedicated to service, she tries to lead by her campaign motto: \u201cThe better unified the community can be [means] greater children we can raise for the world.\u201d At the end of the day, the T\/E district cannot thrive if it does not include families of all backgrounds in their process.<\/p>\n
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The backdrop of local politics has become ruthless, with individuals sharing their uncensored opinions to get what they want. In Philadelphia, Jewish immigrant Diana Leygerman received a plethora of anti-semetic comments and even saw a hate website against her campaign for local school board. Those who opposed her campaign were tying their dislike of her political opinions to her identity and religion, resulting in a hurtful narrative for immigrants running for local offices.<\/p>\n
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Asian immigrant communities are no exception to the hurtful narratives and stereotypes that continue to escalate in politics. Wang emphasizes her desire for the Asian community to understand that if they wish to change that stereotype, they should consider stepping out of their comfort zones to speak publicly in order to provide an authentic counter-narrative and create a more welcoming community for all children. \u201cIf society does not see us as our true character, then our children will be the ones who will be misjudged.\u201d Wang encourages Asian American parents to take small steps by participating more in local school board meetings, leaving the comfort zones of their homes to voice their opinions publicly, and volunteering in their local schools.<\/p>\n