Cecelia Lewis was asked to apply for a Georgia school district’s first-ever administrator job devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion. A group of parents-coached by local and national anti-CRT groups-had other plans.

In the first wide-ranging analysis of school board unrest, ProPublica found nearly 60 incidents that led to arrests or criminal charges Almost all were in suburban districts, and nearly every participant was white.

College students arrested. A parking lot altercation. A retired teacher waking up to a broken window Events at a school district in Conway, Arkansas, illustrate the alarming trend of unrest at school board meetings across the country.

Eric Jensen, a parent in North Carolina, had grievances to air about library books “trying to convert kids to gay” and about mask and vaccine mandates. So he joined an activist group and headed to a school board meeting.

An angry parent confronted a New Jersey school board president, accelerating a chain of events that pushed the board to the right.

Parents protestd a mask mandate at a Webster, New York, school board meeting. After Ken Macini tried to enforce the policy, a parent he ejected pressed charges for harassment.