Jefferson County Board of Education member Chris Kolb resigned from the Jefferson County Board of Education “effective immediately,” citing a desire to teach next school year in a letter sent to board leadership Thursday .
The decision comes more than a month after Kolb, who has served on the council since 2017, announced that he would not run again for his seat in District 2, which represents the Highlands and its surrounding neighborhoods, The Courier Journal previously reported. Board members are also not permitted to work for the district during their term.
In the letter, Kolb said he is proud to have helped with many initiatives that have helped improve the district, such as investing more in impoverished schools and challenging the community testing model for students, but criticized board president Corrie Shull and the Vice President, James Craig, for failing to raise revenue to resolve current staffing issues.
He went on to state that board members were putting “their own political aspirations above the needs of JCPS students” and that Superintendent Marty Pollio’s evaluations were not based on the student outcomes he was asked to achieve, but on the individual desires of the students. Members of the Board. .
“I realize now that I will not be able to convince this board to focus on student outcomes or to increase the revenue needed to address the staffing crisis, so I am choosing to do what I can as an individual by becoming a JCPS teacher,” he wrote . “However, I am only one person and the board itself has only three options in the face of the staffing crisis: raise the revenues needed to attract and retain staff, join me in resigning from the board to work for JCPS, or admit to themselves and the community that you don’t care much about the future of the district.”
Kolb made headlines in May after criticizing JCPS directors for opposing new start time proposals, which sparked a petition calling for his resignation.
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This article originally appeared in the Louisville Courier Journal: Chris Kolb Resigns from Jefferson County Board of Education
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