United States | School-board politics
Once mundane, school-board meetings have become battlegrounds
A new front line in America’s culture wars
|Scottsdale, Arizona
WHAT DO ICE-HOCKEY, reality-television shows and school-board meetings have in common? Lately people have been watching them for the fights. School-board meetings, once boring affairs, have turned into political cage-matches.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Going overboard”
United States February 19th 2022
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