New political action committees targeting North Texas school board seats are spending big money on conservative rallying cries ahead of Saturday’s elections. It’s yet another sign of how local school board races are now the front lines of Republican culture war issues, such as those on race, gender, library books and parental choice. Some are tapping the same consulting groups, including GOP…

In Tarrant County, conservative PACs animated about the teaching of race and sexuality are flooding school board races with hundreds of thousands of dollars. Largely driven by Christian cellphone company Patriot Mobile, which has put $500,000 into a political action committee supporting conservative candidates in the Carroll, Grapevine-Colleyville, Keller, and Mansfield school districts. What’s more,…