Leslie K. Finger (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7843-5256) is an assistant professor of political science at the University of North Texas. Her research focuses on education politics, interest groups, and state and local politics. Her work has appeared in Governance, Perspectives on Politics, Policy Studies Journal, State Politics & Policy Quarterly, and Interest Groups & Advocacy. Finger is the cofounder of the American Political Science Association’s Education Politics and Policy Section, serving as president from 2021 to 2022. She received the Charles Sumner Dissertation Prize from the Harvard University’s Department of Government in 2018 for her dissertation “Group Power and Policy Change in Education.”

David M. Houston (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1927-252X) is an assistant professor of education policy at George Mason University. His research interests include public opinion on education issues, measuring school quality, school segregation, and school board elections. His scholarship has appeared in such journals as the American Journal of Education, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and Educational Researcher. Before pursuing his doctorate, Houston taught first and second grades in New York City.