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Seemingly overnight, a new battleground has emerged in American politics: school boards. In these meetings, parents increasingly engage in heated — sometimes violent — fights over hot-button issues such as mask mandates and critical race theory.

Suddenly, the question of who sits on a school board has become a question about which version of America will prevail. And as money and attention have flowed into local board races, the battle has been taken up on the national stage.

We visit the school board meeting in Central Bucks, Pa., an important county in national politics, where the meetings have been particularly wild.

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On today’s episode

• Campbell Robertson, a national correspondent for The New York Times.

Making signs outside the Loudoun County Public School Administration Offices prior to a meeting this month in Ashburn, Va.Jason Andrew for The New York Times

Background reading

• Since the spring, a steady tide of school board members across the country have nervously come forward with accounts of threats they have received from enraged local parents.

• Republicans are heading into the 2022 midterm elections with what they believe will be a highly effective political strategy capitalizing on the frustrations of suburban parents still reeling from the devastating fallout of pandemic-era schooling.

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Campbell Robertson contributed reporting.

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