Here is a simple example of how the system works. Posturing from the board overstates what the district is doing for students. Trustees then spin what is going on for political advantage. Some trustees just repeat the party line that the top level bureaucracy ventriloquists into them. Taxpayers believe what they are being told. Parents who attend the school board meetings know that what is said there is not the reality in the schools. And so the system of governance by wink and nod exists.
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