Maryland Students, Educators, and Schools Deserve Better
Don’t let these extremist school board candidates have a say over our schools.
Howard County
School Board
Ineffective legislator. Moms for Liberty cheerleader.
Anti-public school ideologue.
Trent Kittleman is no friend to public education.
In her eight years in the Maryland General Assembly, Kittleman passed just one bill.
Instead, she spent her time attempting to cut funding from public schools, divert taxpayer dollars to unaccountable private schools, and prevent the public from viewing campaign finance information.
She voted against bills to increase educator pay and staffing, expand career technical education and pre-kindergarten, and increase funding for Howard County schools.
At a time when we need to focus on keeping kids safe from gun violence, she:
voted against a bill to ban untraceable, unregulated ghost guns;
voted against a bill to increase security around the accessibility of guns, and;
voted against a bill to ban bump stocks, which allow rounds from the semi-automatic weapons so often used in mass shootings to be fired even faster.
She became an outspoken supporter of Donald Trump in 2016, expressing hope that the Trump administration would “[redirect] education dollars to give parents the right to send their kid to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice.”
Another alarming part of Kittleman’s record
is her zeal for Moms for Liberty, an extremist group known for promoting book bans, including books on Martin Luther King and Anne Frank, and accused of harassing educators and community leaders.
“I was going to start a chapter,” she recalled. “I fell in love with all the people. I thought they were reasonable and rational. But then I saw they were being called a terrorist group. You can’t get associated with that.”
—Kittleman on Moms for Liberty (2024)