A judge in Pennsylvania ordered to immediately remove from office the five school board members in Chester County school district who voted to make masks mandatory at the beginning of the school year.
In February, the parents filed a petition asking the Chester County Court of Common Pleas to remove the five Democratic school board members because they had voted to make masks mandatory in the school district last August 2021, according to a report from WHYY media.
A monthslong dispute over masks in a Chester County school district culminated Tuesday in a judge ordering all five Democrats on the school board to be immediately removed from office.
It stood by that decision while the state reimposed a school mask mandate, and for two months after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declared that mandate unconstitutional in December.
In his order that the five Democratic members of the board be "Removed from office," Judge William Mahon wrote that his decision came after there was "No response" to the petition by the school district or its counsel.
In the motion to reconsider filed with the court, a copy of which WHYY obtained Wednesday, the attorneys argued that the deadline for a response was actually April 4 and disputed the timeline used, which was based on the March 15 filing date of the petition to remove the school board members.
"The decision states that the removal of the board members named in the petition was a 'procedural result' and does not address any of the allegations made in the complaint. Special counsel to the district is in the process of preparing a substantive response on behalf of those school board members named in the petition," Sokolowski said.
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Pennsylvania Judge Orders Five Democrat School Board Members Immediately Removed Over Mask Mandate
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