CRAWFORDVILLE, Fla. – At the November 13 State Board of Education (BOE) meeting, board members questioned School Board of Alachua County Vice Chair Tina Certain about several social media posts; she declined to answer several questions, and she disclosed at the end of the discussion that the school district paid for the attorney who wrote a letter defending her free speech rights and accompanied her to the Board of Education meeting.
Kamoutsas reveals new complaints “that seem to demonstrate a pattern of failure and discrimination in Alachua against our most vulnerable students.”
During the Commissioner’s Report agenda item, Commissioner of Education Anastasios Kamoutsas said he had attended the October 7 meeting of the School Board of Alachua County and had “highlighted the ongoing pattern of intimidation that continues to take place at board meetings in Alachua County, as parents who dare to speak up are silenced while Alachua County School Board members act as if the law does not apply to them, and even this board issuing clear directives to both Chair Rockwell and Vice Chair Certain — there’s a toxic culture that still persists.”…