001mass mandates banned books fights over what teachers can and can't teach the nation's school boards are becoming hotly contested political arenas now parents in prince george's county are demanding more democracy in hopes of ending chaos on the board there scott broome explains what reformers are calling for it got so bad at the board of education here in prince george's county last year that the board's lawyers all quit and their allegations that ethics complaints were being weaponized to silence dissent here's former elected board member edward burroughs who's now on county council last november election you had a majority of board members that got elected that were working together moving the system in one direction and so you had appointed officials who were not in the majority weaponizing bogus ethics charges to remove six out of nine
002of the elected members and not one of those members have been removed you know i left in order to join the county council but the ethics charges were completely and utterly false the root of the problem said burroughs is a hybrid system that pits elected school board members against powerful officials appointed by the county executive county executive angela also brooks says it is not producing results she appointed a task force poised now to call for major reform on the table recommendations to jettison the current hybrid system in favor of an all-elected school board with one student member here's some of the feedback the task force got during remote meetings with parents and leaders last month unfortunately this task force is necessary because of the dysfunction of our current school board it's a disgrace that our
003school board has had a parade of attorneys who have started and quit one thing that is imperative if you look at the united states as a whole in general is local governments being able to control their education the task force has a final meeting here in prince george's county tomorrow night it will be up to an act of the state legislature to adopt any of the recommendations they make in prince george's county scott broome wusa 9.