Last week, Montgomery Public Schools superintendent Ann Roy Moore announced students and faculty in her system would go to remote working and learning. According to Moore, the system would resume normal operations when those working within the school system could receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
The decision was met with mixed reaction, but it called into question whether or not a single individual, in this case, the MPS school superintendent, should have such broad sweeping powers that go beyond administrative decisions.
On Monday’s broadcast of Alabama Public Television’s “Capitol Journal,” State Rep. Jamie Kiel (R-Russellville) discussed his effort to rein in that power and limit the amount of time a school superintendent could call off school functions before having to seek approval from a school board.