FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Two parents who lost children in February’s massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School announced their candidacies for county school board seats Tuesday, saying they want to improve safety and increase accountability. Ryan Petty, a telecom and technology entrepreneur, said he wants to help restore the Broward County School Board to its proper function as an oversight body for the administration, saying he thinks that has been lost. He is running for an at-large seat on the board, while Lori Alhadeff is running in the district that includes the city of Parkland, where Stoneman Douglas is located. Broward County school officials revealed last week that Cruz had been referred to, but did not fully participate in the program when he was in middle school. “We’ve gone from the complete extreme of over-disciplining kids to not disciplining kids, which is what we have now,” Alhadeff said.

Source: National Post May 15, 2018 16:18 UTC