
Meet The Parents Taking Over School Boards
The Assignment with Audie Cornish
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Introduction
Audie Cornish: School battles are proxy fights for what it means to be American. In 1974, a school board fight about so-called multicultural textbooks spiraled into a boycott. "We feel it's a God-given responsibility for me to educate my children," one parent says in the video.
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