Culture Wars And New York’s School Boards

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Fallout from the new culture wars was most disruptive in white, suburban, and low-poverty districts. More than half of all district leaders surveyed—51 percent—said that battles over either

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When it comes to culture wars in the schools, New York is in a different place than many. Since 2020, new laws or directives in at least 17 states have limited what schools can

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New York’s school board elections are on Tuesday, and culture war issues have cropped up in school board races across the state.

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The Republican plan to take over school boards may be backfiring. New election results suggest voters are mixed at best on the GOP’s educational culture wars.

Collins: The biggest thing that we learned is that your typical parent does not care about culture war related issues as the primary driver of why they’re showing up to vote in

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So I’m biased towards culture wars. I’d much rather write about a school board under attack for teaching CRT than I would about the many districts where this isn’t an issue.

And the first results from 2022 have been strikingly good for progressives, especially in battleground states like New Hampshire, where dozens of hotly contested races

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This isn’t the first time that national politics and the culture wars have infiltrated school board politics. These clashes have been popping up for decades, starting almost 100

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Historians for Peace & Democracy released online a comprehensive digital resource, the Culture Wars Against Education Archive, that contains over 130 documents

Increased attention and interest in school boards is a pattern seen across the country, where school board meetings have become a place for skirmishes in the culture wars.

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Andrea Gabor is the Bloomberg Professor of business journalism at Baruch College/CUNY. She is the author of four books, most recently After the Education Wars: How

Fallout from the new culture wars was most disruptive in white, suburban, and low-poverty districts. More than half of all district leaders surveyed—51 percent—said that battles over either

For some parents, the anger grew to encompass how schools teach subjects related to race, sex and other culture war issues. Capitalizing on some of the dissatisfaction,

Professor James Davison Hunter’s Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America, shows that these issues are not isolated from one another but are, in fact, part of a fabric of conflict which constitutes nothing short of a struggle over the

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