Posted on 03/07/2024 3:26:58 AM PST by cotton1706
More than a dozen senators — both Republican and Democratic — voted against a bill that would create partisan Kentucky Board of Education elections, but the measure ultimately passed the Senate Tuesday.
In a vote of 24-14, the Republican-controlled Senate approved a bill that would transform the appointed board into an elected one. The legislation now goes to the House for consideration.
The Senate’s seven Democrats were joined by Republican Sens. Jared Carpenter, David Givens, Jason Howell, Brandon Smith, Johnnie Turner, Whitney Westerfield and Phillip Wheeler in opposing Senate Bill 8.
The bill’s sponsor, Senate Republican Whip Mike Wilson, of Bowling Green, has said the bill would give voters a direct say in electing members of the board, which oversees Kentucky’s public K-12 education system.
Wilson said on the Senate floor Tuesday that moving to elections for the state board would increase rural representation among its members.
“This bill is the result of years of watching appointments to the state board used as political favors to gain political control, and we’ve seen it on both sides of the aisle,” he said.
Currently, the 15-member board is made up of 11 voting members who are appointed by the governos and confirmed by the Senate and four non-voting members.
(Excerpt) Read more at somerset-kentucky.com ...
This is a great move to restore accountability for school boards. Perhaps board members won’t be so presumptious to parents at board meetings if they know who is buttering their bread.
Political appointments -- since every appointment is done by politicians -- is "partisan" too. But the Lefties and the wacky "assistant Lefties" -- turns out they were in the minority in an actual VOTE -- wanted to preserve the appointment game, because patronage is patronage is patronage when done by "appointments," while those awful voters might upset the patronage apple cart!
So they can’t hide all their teachers union stooges anymore?
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