Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has suspended 4 faculty board officers in Broward County after reviewing the grand jury investigation into the Parkland faculty capturing.
The capturing passed off at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Excessive Faculty in 2018.
In an executive order, DeSantis adopted the advice of the grand jury and suspended Patricia Good, Donna Korn, Ann Murray and Laurie Wealthy Levinson.
The order asserted that the sheriff’s workplace will accompany them to retrieve their belongings from the college board constructing.
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“It’s my responsibility to droop folks from workplace when there may be clear proof of incompetence, neglect of responsibility, misfeasance or malfeasance,” mentioned Governor DeSantis in a statement. “The findings of the Statewide Grand Jury affirm the work of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Faculty Security Fee. We’re grateful to the members of the jury who’ve devoted numerous hours to this mission and we hope this suspension brings the Parkland group one other step in the direction of justice. This motion is in the perfect curiosity of the residents and college students of Broward County and all residents of Florida.”
DeSantis’ workplace mentioned that the ultimate report of the Grand Jury discovered {that a} safety-related alarm that might have presumably saved lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Excessive Faculty “was and is such a low precedence that it stays uninstalled at a number of colleges,” and “college students proceed to be educated in unsafe, getting older, decrepit, moldy buildings that have been presupposed to have been renovated years in the past.”
On Tuesday, nearly all of DeSantis-endorsed faculty board candidates gained their elections — flipping a number of counties that have been beforehand led by liberals.
Out of the 30 faculty board candidates the governor endorsed as being “dedicated to the student-first rules of the DeSantis Schooling Agenda,” 21 of them gained. 4 will probably be heading to runoff elections and simply 5 have misplaced.
Two of the most important districts, Miami and Jacksonville, each now have conservative majority faculty boards.
The total grand jury report could be discovered here.
