Education Law

The diversity of school board members

A new report released by NSBA, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, and the Iowa School Boards Foundation is giving new insights into the workings of America?s nearly 14,000 school boards, including diversity of school board members.

The report, School Boards Circa 2010: Governance in the Accountability Era, finds that school board members, especially those in large districts, are more representative of the communities they serve than state legislatures and members of Congress. Boards now include women at more than twice the rate of the U.S. House Representatives and Senate. In large districts, 21.8 percent of school boards members surveyed were African-American and six percent were Latino.

BoardBuzz is proud to know that school boards are reflecting the diversity of their local communities.

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on February 04, 2011 (boomark / email).