State School Board cancels meeting, "circus" work session to be held instead

Michael Sentance survives – again.

A majority of the Alabama Board of Education couldn’t agree to attend a meeting scheduled for Wednesday morning, following a letter late last week from Gov. Kay Ivey’s legal advisor. That letter warned that the meeting might have been improperly called and that any action taken at it could be deemed illegal.

So, that meeting was officially cancelled late Tuesday afternoon, and a work session will be held instead. Board members can’t take official actions at a work session, so the scheduled review of Sentance’s contract, which was on the agenda for the cancelled meeting, will have to wait.

“We couldn’t reach an agreement on the meeting with all board members, so it was my preference to have a work session instead so we can discuss a number of items,” board vice-president Stephanie Bell said.

Those discussions promise to be lively.

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