How the fight for an elected school board illuminates our history.
to the effort to block elected school boards, whereas supporters of the move say they don’t receive financial backing from the local Democratic Party .over book-banning decisions for school libraries — and then promptly started nixing books from circulation, including several with LGBTQ+ themes.against keeping the name John M.
“Appointed boards were part and parcel of the way the Jim Crow system operated in Virginia,” historian Peyton McCrary told me. In Hanover, liberals and even some conservatives are mindful of that dark past. This fall, if residents vote to give themselves the power to hold school board members accountable moving forward, it will be another step toward repudiating it.
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