About Us
Vote For MI Kids is a project of the Michigan Education Justice Coalition-Action Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of Forward Michigan, a 501c4 non-profit organization.
We strongly believe the conservative rhetoric from the vocal minority has no place in our schools and public education must incorporate diversity, equity, inclusion and justice programs, comprehensive sex education, and social and emotional learning.
We support those candidates that share our values and want to help voters decipher the noise and misinformation being peddled by the radical right.
We relied on various sources for the information presented on this website and in particular encourage voters to check out school board candidate questionnaire responses that were provided to the Michigan Education Justice Coalition. We take into consideration endorsements from other organizations aligned and in opposition to MEJC-AF's values. Finally, each school board election has its own context and therefore we also work to consider the dynamics of the local school board race.
What disqualifies a candidate from being endorsed by Vote for Mi Kids?
At least one of the following:
- Being against diversity, equity, inclusion and justice programs (DEIJ)
- Being against social emotional learning (SEL)
- Being against comprehensive sex education (CSE)
- Refusing to provide your pronouns or providing inapprpriate responses when asked your pronouns
-Actively working to remove age appropriate books from the curriculum
-Attending the Stop the Steal rally on January 6, 2021
- Being asked by a political party to run without any appropriate experience
- Using the guise of "transparency" to undermine public education
- Previously working against public school levies
- Treating school board meetings like a set of the Jerry Springer Show
- Threatening school boards with silly lawsuits
If you would like to dispute a category that a candidate has been placed in, please send an email to organize@mejc-af.org.