[Gabz]

No longer. This was "once" true, when local school boards were controlled directly by local voters, and had complete say over hiring and firing and budgetary concerns. That power has moved from complete local control, to "county-wide" control, to state control, and is not-so-slowly moving to federal control.

Maybe where you live, but from where I come from the local school board elections are sometimes more highly charged and competitive than those for legislative offices. they also tend to attrack more candidates than legislative offices.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Maybe where you live, but from where I come from the local school board elections are sometimes more highly charged and competitive than those for legislative offices. they also tend to attrack more candidates than legislative offices."

And where might THAT be?? That situation is certainly as rare as hen's teeth in today's "ed biz".