School Board Elections in the era of nationalization

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Brief Overview

We have created a data set of individual school board members across 13 states from 2019 to 2023 to understand how the pandemic as well as the nationalization of school boards has impacted who is serving on school boards.

Authors

• Karin Kitchens, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

• Megan Goldberg, Cornell College