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What the record shows.

Findings about America's school boards, drawn from public records and published with the data and method behind them. Each piece says what it covers, what it does not, and how to reproduce it.

New work is posted here first, and on X and Bluesky the same day.

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No. 01 · 2026-10-08

Two Americas, Two School Boards.

One is rural, small, and most of the country's boardrooms. The other is urban, large, and most of the country's students. Serving school boards means serving both.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

How these are made

  • Every figure is computed from the School Boar database. The queries and counts behind any post are available on request.
  • A national claim is made only when the underlying file covers every district. Otherwise the post names the states and the share it covers.
  • We do not infer anything about a person from their name, and we do not rate, rank, or score any board or candidate.
  • Corrections are made in place and noted on the page.