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School boards, long locally focused and nonpartisan, get dragged into the national political culture wars

By Kathleen Knight Abowitz, Professor of Educational Leadership, Miami University

In more than 90% of U.S. public school districts, school board elections are nonpartisan and have been for centuries. But that long tradition may well be changing – and putting at risk the quality of the country’s education system by introducing divisive national political issues into the process by which a local community governs itself.

At present, nine states have passed legislation…

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