Readings:
- Kogan, Vladimir. 2022. “Locally Elected School Boards are Failing? Pandemic Stress-Tested School Governance, Revealing Many Flaws.” Education Next, 22(3).
- Fraga, L.R.; Rodriguez, N.; Erlichson, B.A. 2005. “Desegregation and School Board Politics: The Limits of Court-Imposed Policy Change.” In William G. Howell, ed. BESIEGED. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
- Hochschild J.L. 2005. “What School Boards Can and Cannot (or Will Not) Accomplish.” In William G. Howell (ed.) BESIEGED. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
- Morel, D. and Nuamah, S.A. 2020. “Who Governs? How Shifts in Political Power Shape Perceptions of Local Government Services.” Urban Affairs Review 56(5): 1503-1528.
Prompts:
- What are the arguments for school boards?
- What is the ideal of democracy that is rooted in school board governance?
- Why might school boards be thought of differently in different areas along the lines of…
- Demographics of students?
- Geography?
- What are the things that school boards can reasonably accomplish? What is beyond their scope?