About
A research team for school boards.
School Boar researches who sits on America's school boards, who is running for them, and how districts are run. We were started by former teachers and school administrators, data engineers, and people who had worked inside government.
Why we exist
A simple question with no straight answer
The decisions that shape a school are made by a handful of people most voters cannot name, elected in races almost nobody covers. We had seen it from the classroom, from the data side, and from inside government, and none of those vantage points could answer a simple question: who is on my school board, and who is running against them?
So we built the place that answers it, and kept going.
Where we stand
What holds the team together is not a politics, we genuinely do not share one, but a conviction that public education works better when the public can see who is steering it.
- We are nonpartisan. We do not endorse, rate, rank, or score anyone.
- We take no position on any question a school board decides.
- Every candidate in a race appears the same way, in the same order.
- Nothing about a listing can be bought, improved or removed by paying us.
- We publish names, districts, seats, incumbency, and race status. We do not publish the email addresses or phone numbers we hold: those are for contacting people, not for handing out.
Corrections
Tell us when we're wrong
Districts change boards mid-term, people resign, and pages go stale. Corrections from districts, board members, and candidates go to the front of the queue.
Reach a person
A small team of former educators, engineers, and public-sector people, and a website designer who would like it noted. More on that above.
About the boar
A boar roots, it digs through the ground until it turns something up. That is the job: going through district websites, filing lists, and meeting records until the record is complete. It describes us, not anyone who serves on a school board.