DeSantis Suspends 4 Elected School Board Members

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) “suspended four elected members of the Broward County school board on Friday, following the recommendation of a grand jury impaneled to look into school safety and other issues after the mass school shooting in Parkland that left 17 people dead in 2018,” the New York Times reports.

“In its report, which was released last week, the grand jury found that the four school board members — and a fifth one who no longer holds that position — had ‘engaged in acts of incompetence and neglect of duty,’ in part for what the grand jury described as mismanagement of an $800 million bond issue approved by voters in 2014 that was intended to renovate schools and make them safer.”