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Teen Activist Battles Climate Change In Astounding School Board Triumph
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October 9, 2022
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9:18Now PlayingTeen Activist, Shiva Rajbhandari, wins the election to serve on the Boise School Board of Trustees to voice needs for climate action, gun violence prevention and student rights. John Iadarola and Shiva Rajbhandari break it down on The Damage Report.
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Shiva Rajbhandari, Idaho Teen Activist, Won Election to the Boise School Board
"Shiva Rajbhandari is straddling two worlds: one in which he’s a high school senior balancing college applications and classes, and another in which he’s an elected official serving on the school board that makes decisions affecting his own high school.
Rajbhandari, 18, won a seat on the school board by defeating the incumbent candidate, who had been endorsed by the Idaho Liberty Dogs. The Liberty Dogs, who say they were founded because of a “spread of Marxism,” have accused librarians of providing students with pornographic books and promoted book bannings.
Although Rajbhandari’s opponent, Steve Schmidt, never publicly embraced the Liberty Dogs, he also didn’t disavow them, according to reporting from The Intercept. Rajbhandari tells Teen Vogue this shows a “lack of understanding of the threat of extremism to our schools and a sympathy to the hateful and violent intimidation tactics.”"
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