12. BONUS: Trust, Legitimacy, and Local School Governance, with Kathleen Knight Abowitz

Kathleen Knight Abowitz joins us to talk about her recent research into school board members in her home state of Ohio, the squeezes that school leaders find themselves in between state pressures from above and constituent demands from below, and how easy it is to forfeit local trust and how hard it is to rebuild. LINKS: Kathleen's Publics for Public Schools (2014) Malin and Lubienski, "Information Pollution in an Age of Populist Politics" (2022) Jonathan Collins's website. Jonathan Collins's dissertation abstract (it's paywalled) Collins's article version of the same (also paywalled) Collins "The Politics of Re-Opening Schools"