How to Help School Boards Resist Pressure Groups
Anti-maskers and Proud Boys are disrupting meetings. Well-heeled reformers are undermining public education. Changing election calendars and lowering the voting age can help.
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School boards are in the news again as culture-war battlegrounds and forums for public-school bashing. That’s good reason to make them stronger, not weaker or more fearful.
Boards are ground zero for conflicts over mask and vaccine mandates and curricular battles over U.S. racial history.