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In addition to supporting school board members via fellowships, coaching, events, and more, School Board Partners conducts ground-breaking school board research and regularly features in the news.

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Report: Empty Seats at Powerful Tables

The State of School Boards in America

To help school boards evolve into institutions oriented toward justice, we must better understand who serves them, and get a grasp of their priorities, challenges, the support they require, and ideas about systemic racism in their district. To that end, we conducted a large-scale, first-of-its-kind survey of elected school board members from across the country. Our analysis focuses on education leaders of color.

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School Board Partners in the News

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Opinion: Earth Day is Over, But There's a Lot More Schools Can Do to Address Climate Change

May 9, 2022

Sara Ross , Jonathan Klein

Last month, schools across the country celebrated Earth Day, many bringing children and families together to clean parks and plant trees. That’s excellent, but it’s time to talk about the other 364 days of the year. We’re not minimizing what happened on that one day. Trees are desperately needed on our hot, blacktop-covered school playgrounds, and parks that welcome children and families matter deeply.

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