Hoping to end an era of acrimony on the Prince George’s Board of Education, County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks said on Friday she will forward the recommendations of a special task force to the General Assembly.
The panel, which concluded a months-long review this week, adopted 11 recommendations in total. Chief among them: a return to an all-elected school board, with nine members elected by district and one student.
The current board is comprised of nine elected and four appointed members who serve alongside a student member who can vote on certain issues. Alsobrooks (D) created the task force last year following months of infighting and negative headlines on the board, asking the panel to come up with a set of “best practices.”
“They have sent to me a number of recommendations to help us repair the dysfunction that has occurred on that board, and we’re going to forward those recommendations [to the legislature] and work to implement them,” Alsobrooks told WAMU host Kojo Nnamdi. “I agree with an all-elected school board. I always have.”
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