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Fulfilling Promises: Strengthening School Boards for a Stronger Future
As our education system is increasingly destabilized, it is more important than ever that our local elected leaders have the knowledge, skills, resources, and capacity to fill in the gap should federal structures, guidelines and oversight go away. Across the country, there are nearly 90,000 school board members who are preparing to make decisions that will impact their communities for years to come. While national discourse is capturing so much of our attention, now more than ever, it is actually at the local level where policies are shaped in ways that directly affect our daily lives.
