The local school board said it would take " the necessary steps to restore public confidence" in the school system.

当地学校董事会表示，其将采取“必要措施恢复公众对学校系统的信心”。

And so the tricky thing is, right now in the US, most schools are run by a local school board.

所以棘手的是， 现在在美国，大多数学校都由当地的学校董事会管理。

She said the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1982 that " local school boards may not remove books from school library shelves simply because they dislike the ideas contained in those books" .

她说，美国最高法院在 1982 年裁定，" 地方学校董事会不得仅仅因为不喜欢书中的思想就将书从学校图书馆的书架上移走。"

And in the United States, each school system is governed, or run, by a local school board – a group of people who are elected to run the school system in their area.

在美国，每个学校系统都由当地的学校董事会管理或运营——一群人被选为在他们所在地区运营学校系统。

To get to the bottom of this, I asked for help from Michelle Cottle, a seasoned political reporter who's written for a bunch of top publications, who's covered elections of every type, from presidential all the way down to local school boards.

为了弄清真相，我向 Michelle Cottle 寻求帮助，她是一位经验丰富的政治记者，曾为许多顶级出版物撰稿，报道过从总统到地方学校董事会的各种选举。