Jackson County School Board Fight Kaput

This controversy never really was that interesting to those outside of the courthouse . . . And now the issue is complete but likely not settled for good.

Here's the round-up . . .

Manny Abarca has given up his fight to simultaneously serve on the Kansas City Public Schools board and the Jackson County Legislature.

Abarca and two other newly elected legislators had hoped to retain their seats on area school boards, despite a provision in the county charter that forbids legislators from holding another “federal, state, county, or municipal elective office.”

Abarca had argued that school board members didn’t fit that definition and wanted to have a court decide whether he was right.

But he abandoned that effort on New Year’s Eve, resigning his school board post, after Judge Louis Angles denied his request for a temporary restraining order. That order would have put things on hold until the legal arguments could be sorted out.

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New Jackson County legislator who sued to retain school board seat gives up fight

Manny Abarca has given up his fight to simultaneously serve on the Kansas City Public Schools board and the Jackson County Legislature. Abarca and two other newly elected legislators had hoped to retain their seats on area school boards, despite a provision in the county charter that forbids legislators from holding another "federal, state, county, or municipal elective office."