The state Board of Education announced a special meeting Monday to hear the appeal by the Lee County School District of an Education Department recommended that the district and Lee High School in Marianna be placed on probation for violation of accrediting standards.

A letter to the district Superintendent Elizabeth Johnson elaborates:

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If the state Board denies the appeal, it may choose from a variety of actions allowed by law:

(1) Require a school district to reorganize or reassign the administrative, instructional, or support staff of a public school;

(2) Require a school or school district to institute and fully implement a curriculum that is based on state academic content and achievement standards, including providing appropriate professional development at the cost of the school district;

(3) Remove a particular school from the jurisdiction of a school district and establish alternative public governance and supervision of the school or schools;

(4) Require a school district to close down or dissolve a particular school or schools within a school district;

(5) Annex a school district or districts or parts thereof with another receiving school district or districts pursuant to the authority of § 6-13-1401 et seq. and this subchapter;

(6) Consolidate a school district or districts or parts thereof with another school district or districts or parts thereof to form a resulting district pursuant to the authority of § 6-13-1401 et seq. and this subchapter;

(7) Reconstitute the leadership of a school district by removing permanently or suspending on a temporary basis the superintendent of the school district or any particular board members of a school district. The state board shall have the authority to appoint an administrator or to call for the election of new school board members to administer the affairs and provide governance of the school district, or both; and

(8) Take any other appropriate action allowed by law which is determined by the state board to assist and address a school or school district failure to meet the standards for accreditation.

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