COVID, CRT, and Wisconsin School Board Elections

• In Event: The Politics of Local Educational Institutions

Brief Overview

We examine the campaigns of 525 candidates in 100 school board elections in WI, asking: what characteristics define districts that had contentious elections? And how likely was the “anti-establishment” candidate to win?

Authors

• Paru Shah, Rutgers University

• Aaron Weinschenk, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay