A group of parents in the state's Buncombe County declared themselves the new school board following the vote.
About 30 people present signed loose-leaf paper saying they were"witnesses" to the formation of a new board, after the group of parents reportedly declared its creation themselves.on Thursday:"They acted as a dictatorship, and so therefore, the people then take it into our own hands to abolish that governance and re-elect new members right then and there."
Buncombe County Schools attorney Dean Shatley said the parents' attempt to form a new board didn't remove the current board members from their positions. "I know they're very passionate and care a tremendous amount about what they were here to speak about, but what they did has no authority under the law," Shatley said.A nurse prepares COVID vaccines at a baseball game on August 5, 2021, in Springfield, Missouri. According to the latest numbers from the state’s health department, little more than 4 in 10 Missourians have received the vaccine.
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