Masks off: how US school boards became 'perfect battlegrounds' for vicious culture wars

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : When the board reconvened for a special meeting on 16 August, law enforcement used handheld metal detectors to scan the audience, a first for a school board meeting in the district.
57% : Those anti-CRT protests are largely a continuation of previous disputes about how America's history should be taught in public schools, from concerted efforts by the Ku Klux Klan to take over school boards in the 1920s to a 2018 decision by a Wisconsin school board to ban discussions of "white privilege" after parents complained about a Martin Luther King Day assembly, according to Laats.
47% : National political leaders and conservative institutions have played an active role in stoking the surge in school board activism, with groups such as the Heritage Foundation and Manhattan Institute promoting the false idea that CRT is taught in public schools, and former Trump administration officials establishing new organizations to fund school board campaigns.

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