The Politics of Education at School Boards

Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Education expert Alan Arkatov joins current and former school officials Lisa Korbatov, Nick Melvoin, Pedro Noguera, and Darline Robles to discuss the mixing of school boards, parental involvement, and appropriate content in today's often hyper-partisan school board environments.

Featuring:
Alan Arkatov - Katzman/Ernst Chair in Educational Entrepreneurship, Technology and Innovation; Center EDGE Founding Director, USC Rossier School of Education
Lisa Korbatov - Former President, Beverly Hills Unified School District Board of Education
Nick Melvoin - Vice President, Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education
Pedro Noguera - Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean of the Rossier School of Education
Darline Robles - Former Superintendent of LA County Office of Education

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0:00.0	Welcome to the bully pulpit from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future.
0:11.7	Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot button issues where we respect
0:22.0	each other and respected truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:29.2	I'm Bob Shrum, director of the USC Dornside Center for the Political Future. Welcome to the latest
0:35.8	episode of the bully pulpit, where today we're focusing
0:39.4	on the politics of education and the increasing controversies that are affecting school boards
0:45.2	around the country. Our moderator is an old friend, Alan Arkatoff. He is the Katzmann-Earns chair
0:51.6	in educational entrepreneurship, Technology, and Innovation,
0:55.7	with an interdisciplinary emphasis leveraging the work at USC Schools of Communication,
1:01.7	cinematic arts, medicine, public policy, and business.
1:05.2	He is also the founding director of the Edge Center, Engagement-driven Global Education at the USC Rossier School of Education.
1:14.6	Another very good friend, Lisa Corbatoff, she is the former president of the Beverly Hills Unified
1:19.9	School District, Board of Education. I'm proud to say she's a member of the Board of
1:25.0	Counselors at the Center for the Political Future, and her support has been invaluable.
1:30.4	Nick Melvoin, whom I've known for years and years, he is the vice president of Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education.
1:38.2	He chairs the district's committee of the whole, which is dedicated to bringing transparent conversations about L-A-USD's budgetary process
1:47.9	and priorities to the public. Pedro Negaro, whom I knew in an earlier incarnation, and for whom I have
1:54.1	immense respect, he is the Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean of the Roseir School of Education.
2:00.8	He is the author, co-author, an editor of 15 books,
2:05.2	has published over 250 research articles and academic journals,
2:10.8	book chapters and edited volumes,
2:13.2	research reports and editorials in major newspapers.
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