KY: GOP demands Beshear appoint Republicans to Kentucky Board of Education

State GOP leaders are demanding Gov. Andy Beshear add more Republicans to the state board of education after The Courier Journal revealed Beshear has left two seats unaddressed for more than a year — at least one of which must go to a Republican.

And they’re giving him less than a week to find someone, according to a Thursday morning press release.

Kentucky law requires the state education board to reflect the gender, racial and political makeup of the state. To satisfy the law, both seats need to be filled by women, one of them needs to be a minority and one needs to be a Republican.

But the Democratic governor, who ran with reorganizing the Kentucky Board of Education as a campaign promise in 2019, hasn’t appointed anyone to fill the spots since they became empty in spring 2022.




https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2023/05/25/kentucky-board-of-education-must-have-more-republicans-gop-demands/70254385007/