Kathleen Knight Abowitz in The Conversation: ‘School boards, long locally focused and nonpartisan, get dragged into the national political culture wars’
The former school board member and scholar of educational leadership sees this shift having the potential to disrupt the important work of nonpartisan school boards in communities across the nation
Kathleen Knight Abowitz in The Conversation: ‘School boards, long locally focused and nonpartisan, get dragged into the national political culture wars’
In more than 90% of U.S. public school districts, school board elections are nonpartisan and have been for centuries, Kathleen Knight Abowitz, professor of Educational Leadership, writes. “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,” she writes.
As a former school board member in Ohio and a scholar of educational leadership, Knight Abowitz sees this shift having the potential to disrupt the important work of nonpartisan school boards in communities across the nation.
Read her article “School boards, long locally focused and nonpartisan, get dragged into the national political culture wars” in The Conversation (June 3).
