by Jackie Nunnery
HEATHSVILLE—As tensions grow among supervisors and school board members, Northumberland supervisors on Thursday, February 13, unanimously agreed to direct county attorney Eric Gregory to research the process of adding a ballot referendum which would revert to the appointment of school board members.
“I’ve been asked to bring this before the board—that we put out there to be voted on by the public, to go back to an appointed school board,” said supervisor James Brann. “If the citizens are requesting that, we need to do that.”
Such a move would be counter to what most in the Commonwealth are doing. Since 1992 when the General Assembly allowed for the direct election of school board members—the last state in the nation to do so—only 12 school boards have remained under appointment by….
