The Way Texans Elect School Board Members Plays a Key Role in What Students in Diverse Districts Learn.

• Elections: The way Texas school districts elect their board members plays a key, if often overlooked, role in whether ideologically driven conservatives win majorities.
• Diverse Districts: In some of Texas’ most diverse school districts, board members elected via at-large voting have worked to limit instructional materials related to race.
• Divergent Paths: After abandoning its at-large voting system in 2019, the Richardson school board became more diverse and refused to ban library books, unlike its neighbor in Keller.