# School Board

> School Board is mapped as the near state: it governs the immediate infrastructures where policy becomes lived reality.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:local-state-power:school-board` |
| Family | Local & State Power |
| Domain | Governance |
| Kind | institution |
| Archetypal function | The Near State |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

School Board belongs to the **Local & State Power** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

School Board governs the immediate infrastructures where policy becomes lived reality, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use School Board, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The Near State.** School Board is mapped as the near state: it governs the immediate infrastructures where policy becomes lived reality.

## Gift

makes power accessible, plural, and experimentally close; through School Board, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

enables local exclusion, uneven capacity, and hidden low-turnout capture; School Board can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use School Board to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The Near State enters through School Board. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when School Board becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**event.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to School Board; another player names a countermove. Initiative 4.

## Relationships

- **translates into — County Commission:** County Commission translates into School Board by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **enables — Planning Commission:** School Board enables Planning Commission by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **distributes costs to — Liquid Democracy:** School Board distributes costs to Liquid Democracy by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **constrains — Progressive Labor Faction:** Progressive Labor Faction constrains School Board by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read School Board from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if School Board is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
No node-specific Sentinel factors were recorded; ordinary source, audience, and context checks still apply.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of School Board: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [Redistricting Law 2020](https://www.ncsl.org/redistricting-and-census/redistricting-law-2020) — National Conference of State Legislatures, 2020. U.S. redistricting institutions, rules, and litigation.
- [Introduction to Political Science](https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-political-science) — OpenStax, 2022. Comparative institutions, political behavior, and public policy foundations.

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Engine Output version 1.0.0; generated 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. Sentinel annotations are stored separately in `sentinel/handoffs.json`.
