Florida governor Ron DeSantis moved on two fronts last week in an effort to clean up public education in his state. On Friday, he suspended four members of the Broward County School Board, the nation’s sixth largest, after a grand jury concluded they had been negligent and incompetent in handling the Parkland school shooting in 2018 that left 17 students and teachers dead.
The grand jury recommended removal of the four board members — and a fifth one who left the board after the report was written — for “neglect of duty” in implementing an $800 million bond issue, approved by voters in 2014, that was designed to renovate schools and upgrade their safety.
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