The lack of transparency has become a mammoth issue in the presidential election, but it’s long been a problem at the Broward School Board.
Board members were at it again last week, holding an unadvertised meeting out of the Sunshine.
Two members – Robin Bartleman and Heather Brinkworth – refused to attend because the public wasn’t notified.
Billed as a team building session with the help of Nova Southeastern University, the meeting was the idea of School Board Chair Rosalind Osgood.
Osgood isn’t discussing why she held the meeting without the customary public notice. School Board Attorney Barbara Myrick told Osgood the Board could hold an unadvertised meeting, warning, “…if you don’t advertise it is imperative that board members do not speak to each other about issues that might at a later date be on one of their agendas.”
Osgood suggested the retreat as a way to build trust and respect among members, who are sharply divided into two factions – devotees of Superintendent Robert Runcie and skeptics of some of his policies.
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