When Losing is Winning: The Long-Term Impact of the Ban CRT Narrative on Local School Boards

This talk discusses how national actors, like Moms for Liberty (M4L), used the politics of disruption to challenge existing school leaders and reshape local education politics. Using a comparative case study approach, we examined school board meetings in fifteen districts (156 meetings) to understand how the presence/absence of nationalized issues and/or national groups shape local education politics.