Post by pavel on Feb 12, 2016 8:03:18 GMT -6
A bill to eliminate elected school superintendents passed the Senate on Thursday and is now headed to the House of Representatives.
The bill, which would change the 55 elected superintendent positions in the state to appointed positions beginning next term, passed by a vote of 40-9.
Several members expressed the need for another bill that requires all school board members to be elected. Currently, municipal school districts have school board members appointed by the mayor.
Senate Education Committee Chariman and the bill's author Gray Tollison, R-Oxford, assured the senators that the 55 school districts this bill would affect already have elected school boards, so there wouldn’t be a situation where both the superintendent and the school board are appointed.
Read more: www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2016/02/11/senate-approves-appointed-superintendents/80226298/
The bill, which would change the 55 elected superintendent positions in the state to appointed positions beginning next term, passed by a vote of 40-9.
Several members expressed the need for another bill that requires all school board members to be elected. Currently, municipal school districts have school board members appointed by the mayor.
Senate Education Committee Chariman and the bill's author Gray Tollison, R-Oxford, assured the senators that the 55 school districts this bill would affect already have elected school boards, so there wouldn’t be a situation where both the superintendent and the school board are appointed.
Read more: www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2016/02/11/senate-approves-appointed-superintendents/80226298/