New School Order
The rapid expansion of a once sleepy community prompts a painful contest for control of the public schools.
The once-sleepy rural community of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, has rapidly expanded recently, prompting unforeseen struggles — old-timers against new-comers, religious leader against religious leader, and conservatives against liberals — in a painful contest for control of the public schools. Opening with a watershed school board election, the program follows the efforts of the new board as it reshapes the school district and impacts the community over a school year.