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May 19, 2026 46 min

37. Why Involve Your Community At All?

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Jack Schneider joins us from UMass-Amherst to talk about what community members have to offer local schools beyond tax dollars, and what schools have to offer community members beyond test scores (to coin a phrase). You can email him with follow-ups, as he offers in the episode. We talked about an article ("In Praise of Ordinary Measures") on the show, so here is that resource, and here are a few other pieces we've collaborated on over the past several years. "Democracy in Action" (2023) American School Board Journal Educational Accountability 3.0: Beyond ESSA (2023). National Education Policy Center "Are Locally Elected School Boards Really Failing? (2022). Education Next

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