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What happened when I ran for school board in Virginia
Education What happened when I ran for school board in Virginia By Ilya Shapiro December 02, 2021 11:00 PM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print Education What happened when I ran for school board in Virginia By Ilya Shapiro December 02, 2021 11:00 PM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print About a year ago, when schools were still closed in northern Virginia and parents were fretting about learning loss, the school board in my small town of Falls Church voted to change the names of Thomas Jefferson Elementary and George Mason High. That decision, and the board’s abdication of responsibility over pandemic policy — deferring repeatedly to the superintendent, who kept moving the goal posts on reopening — eventually led to my running for a seat this fall. I lost, but the experience taught me about the...
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