February 5, 2025

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The Cost of Disruption: How Culture Wars Cost Taxpayers

7:00 PM THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6

Join us for a timely conversation with scholars Dr. Rebecca Jacobsen and
Dr. Rachel White. We will review the research of Dr. White, co-author of a
new study, “The Cost of Conflict,” and Dr. Jacobsen, co-author of the
forthcoming “The Politics of Disruption.” Their work details how much the
politics of disruption are costing public schools and how the disruption is
negatively impacting school boards and eroding community trust.

The consequences of our school/education wars are real and finding ways to
resolve conflicts and work together to protect and strengthen our public
schools are still worthy goals if we want to provide all children a
high-quality, free and inclusive public education.

There will be time allotted for questions and answers. To prepare for the
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Dr. Rebecca Jacobsen is a professor of education politics and policy in the
College of Education at Michigan State University. Prior to graduate
school, Rebecca taught elementary and middle school in the New York City
public schools. Jacobsen’s work focuses on ways to strengthen public
commitment to public education. She has written extensively about
accountability policies, local school politics, and school board elections.
Her book, Outside Money in Local School Board Elections: The
Nationalization of Local Education Politics, (co-authored with Jeff Henig
and Sarah Reckhow) won the Denis Judd Best Book Award for 2020.

Dr. Rachel White is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership &
Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the founder and
principal investigator of The Superintendent Lab--a central hub for
research and data on the superintendency and home to the National
Longitudinal Superintendent Database. Dr. White is also a Faculty in
Residence with AASA, The School Superintendents Association. Dr. White's
research centers around 1) issues of power, voice, diversity, and inclusion
in education policy making and implementation processes, and 2) examining
structures and policies that contribute to or counteract equitable K-12
education systems.

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