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JCPS school board sues over law limiting its authority

Diane Porter, right, chair of Jefferson County Public Schools Board of Education, and superintendent Marty Pollio listened as speakers gave their opinions on the proposed overhaul of the student assignment plan at the Vanhoose Education Center in Louisville, Ky. on June 1, 2022.  The board voted unanimously to approve a new plan.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The university board of Kentucky’s premier faculty district is suing around a new legislation limiting its authority.

Jefferson County’s board of education introduced Monday afternoon it submitted a lawsuit against state Instruction Commissioner Jason Glass in Jefferson County Circuit Court docket to block pieces of Senate Bill 1. 

Senate Invoice 1, an omnibus education measure, targets the 7-member regionally elected school board by shifting additional authority from the board to Superintendent Marty Pollio and restricting how normally the board can satisfy.

“The elected board of the most significant faculty district in the condition should really not be subject matter to specific and significant legislative overreach that restricts our potential to uphold our constitutional oaths of business,” board chairwoman Diane Porter explained in a statement.

“The taxpayers of Jefferson County deserve to have elected university board members overseeing their educational facilities in the very same way as each and every other Kentucky university district. It is unfortunate that we are compelled to convert to the courts to proper the wrongs the Kentucky Legislature has enacted against this board, the citizens, and learners that we stand for,” she ongoing. 

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