The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday resoundingly upheld a 2010 state statute giving the governor authority to suspend local school board members for failure to satisfy the qualifications of their office.
The decision—issued by the court as a whole rather than by a single justice—addressed two questions posed to the high court in March by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Story. He is presiding over a suit brought by the DeKalb County School District and its former school board chairman, Eugene Walker, against the governor and the Georgia State Board of Education.
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