{"id":50158,"date":"2021-08-21T19:23:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T23:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=50158"},"modified":"2021-08-21T19:23:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T23:23:13","slug":"why-are-two-local-state-reps-trying-to-interfere-with-the-lee-county-school-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/08\/why-are-two-local-state-reps-trying-to-interfere-with-the-lee-county-school-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are two Local State Reps trying to interfere with the Lee County School board?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>State House Rep. Jenna Persons-Mulicka wants the Lee County voters to decide on a superintendent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHaving an elected superintendent directly accountable to the people, many parents feel is the best way to ensure that their voices will continue to be heard,\u201d said State House Rep. Jenna Persons-Mulicka of District 78 (Fla-R).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persons thinks Lee County voters should have the chance to decide if they want to elect their school superintendent. For that to happen, lawmakers would have to OK putting the question on the 2022 ballot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"505\" height=\"598\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/JennaPersons_cropped.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"50159\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/JennaPersons_cropped.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?attachment_id=50159\" class=\"wp-image-50159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/JennaPersons_cropped.png 505w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/JennaPersons_cropped-253x300.png 253w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\"> State House Rep. Jenna Persons-Mulicka <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Spencer-Roach.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"50160\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Spencer-Roach.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?attachment_id=50160\" class=\"wp-image-50160\"\/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\"> State House Rep. Spencer Roach <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Also in the works that would make every school district more political, State House Rep. Spencer Roach filed his own bill that would eliminate nonpartisan school board races. He argues many issues school boards face are in fact partisan, so the voters should know the party of the candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State House Rep. Jenna Persons-Mulicka wants the Lee County voters to decide on a superintendent. \u201cHaving an elected superintendent directly accountable to the people, many parents feel is the best&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[602],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50161,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50158\/revisions\/50161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}