Interest in running for school board is up nationwide. Only 25% of school board races are unopposed this year, down from 35% last year and 40% in 2018, according to Ballotpedia. | via NPR
Anger over issues such as the mask mandate galvanized families — like these seen at the Hillsborough County School Board in Tampa, Fla., last year — into running for school board. Progressive groups are taking a leaf out of their playbook.
"I am really privileged to have gone here; it gave me a lot of opportunities, but it wasn't always a healthy or safe space for me and my friends, especially in regards to sexual harassment and assault," she said in the courtyard of Round Rock High School on a recent spring afternoon, as students left school for the day."I was in ROTC, which was the Air Force program in my high school.
Because school board elections are overwhelmingly nonpartisan, it's hard to quantify who or what is behind all that energy. And she says she fears that that kind of polarization at the local level could have worrying long-term effects for the public school system.
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