Today’s federal court hearing challenging the constitutionality of Governor Nathan Deal’s efforts to oust six members of the DeKalb County Board of Education marks the latest round in more than a decade of fighting between Georgia governors and fractious local school boards.
The state’s last three governorsRoy Barnes, Sonny Perdue and now Dealhave suspended or removed from office members of local boards of education in Spalding, Clayton, Warren and Miller counties when those districts’ accreditation was threatened, in part, by dysfunctional behavior on the part of their boards.
