The vice chair of the Baltimore County school board may have to
choose between her role as a member of the Board of Education and her
political activities.
Marisol Johnson, vice chair of the Baltimore County Board of
Education, will likely have to choose between continuing in that
position or giving up her seat on the Baltimore County Democratic
Central Committee and an expected run for the county council.
Johnson’s current role and her political ambitions, which appear to
include a run for the Baltimore County Council, conflict because of a
2014 law that establishes how members of the county’s board of education
are selected. That law created a hybrid school board with seven of the
12 members being elected from the county’s council districts.
Johnson did not respond to calls or an email seeking comment.
School officials were also not immediately available for comment.
Robbie Leonard, past chair of the central committee, said he became
aware of the legal conflict late last week after reviewing a 2014 law
creating the county’s hybrid elected-appointed school board...
http://thedailyrecord.com/2017/04/25/baltimore-county-school-board-role-political-ambitions-clash-for-one-member/
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