The School Board Wars, Part 1

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🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This episode contains strong language. A new battleground has emerged in American politics: school boards. In these meetings, parents increasingly engage in heated — sometimes violent — fights over hot-button issues such as mask mandates and critical race theory. Suddenly, the question of who sits on a school board has become a question about which version of America will prevail. We visit the school board meeting in Central Bucks, Pa., an important county in national politics, where the meetings have been particularly wild. Guest: Campbell Robertson, a national correspondent for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Babbaro.
0:04.5	This is a daily.
0:08.6	Seemingly overnight, a new battleground has emerged in American politics.
0:13.3	They have been getting national attention, a record amount of money has been spent on
0:17.9	school board races this year at school board.
0:20.5	School boards, school boards.
0:25.1	Police were called to a school board meeting.
0:30.0	Over the past year, school board meetings have become the site of heated at times violent
0:35.6	fights between parents.
0:37.1	Parents were called on tapes saying, quote, we know who you are and other saying, quote,
0:40.6	we will find you.
0:41.6	Find you and we know you will never be allowed to come again.
0:44.7	No more left.
0:46.7	All over the country's most polarizing issues.
0:49.4	The truth is that CRT is utterly disgusting and racist.
0:54.0	It's a critical race theory.
0:55.9	This is diversity inclusion.
0:58.2	As money and attention have flowed into local board races.
1:02.3	And this is something we're seeing across Northeast Ohio and across the state.
1:06.8	Central Iowa school board elections were more expensive, divisive and controversial than
1:11.1	ever before.
1:12.1	The battle has been taken up on the national stage.
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