Next, we asked a parallel question about the degree of conflict between school boards and community members. This gets at the central aim of our analysis of media reports in Chapter 1. These are questions about possible changes in the frequency and location of clashes between school boards and their communities. As we saw in Chapter 1, there was an increase in news coverage of contentious school board meetings during and after the pandemic. However, our findings in Chapter 1 also show that media reports of COVID-19 or culture-war conflicts were limited to only 10% of districts nationally (representing 30% of public school students). This finding is consistent with recent evidence suggesting that conflicts may have been concentrated in a small number of districts.