School Board Battles: The Christian Right in Local Politics

by Melissa M. Deckman

Book Overview

If there is a "culture war" taking place in the United States, one of the most interesting, if under-the-radar, battlegrounds is in local school board elections. Rarely does the pitch of this battle reach national attention, as it did in Kansas when the state school board-led by several outspoken conservative Christians-voted to delete evolution from the state's science curriculum and its standardized tests in August 1999. That action rattled not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589010019
• ISBN13: 9781589010017
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher