MIAMI — The next chapter of the contentious relationship between the state’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and the school board of Broward County, the Florida county with the most registered Democratic Party voters, revolves around one central question: Could and would the governor suspend a school board member twice?
The answer to that became critical Monday for two candidates facing each other in a Nov. 8 runoff election for the School Board’s District 8 at-large seat: incumbent Donna Korn, who has sat on the board since 2012, has been the board chair twice and whom DeSantis suspended on Friday, and challenger Allen Zeman.
In addition to Korn, DeSantis also suspended on Friday three other Broward School Board members — Board Chair Laurie Rich Levinson, Board Vice Chair Patricia Good and longtime board member Ann Murray. He named four men — Torey Alston, Manuel “Nandy” A. Serrano, Ryan Reiter and Kevin Tynan — with ties to the Republican Party to replace them. The suspended board members were all women.
