Over the last three years, there has been a coordinated and intentional political strategy targeting public schools. Two-thirds of the 467 school superintendents in our national survey reported experiencing moderate to high levels of culturally divisive conflict. We found that the costs incurred by U.S. public schools’ responses to culturally divisive conflict totaled $3.2 billion during the 2023-24 school year alone. The money public schools are spending on these clashes could be better spent elsewhere. John Rogers is a professor of education and associate dean for research and public scholarship in the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 25, 2024 16:33 UTC