Broward School Board member Brenda Fam resigning

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Brenda Fam, an outspoken blimpish connected the schoolhouse committee successful bluish Broward County, announced her resignation Tuesday.

Fam, an lawyer by commercialized and Davie resident, was archetypal elected to the committee successful 2022, representing District 6.

A missive submitted to Superintendent Howard Hepburn references the April 11 resignation of Alec Bogdanoff, the seat to the Superintendent’s Oversight Committee Task Force.

Referencing his letter, which cited “entrenched resistance, hostility to caller perspectives and a civilization that excessively often rewards power implicit progress” arsenic a crushed for leaving the unpaid presumption aft 3 meetings, Fam said she’s experienced the aforesaid challenges portion connected the board.

“I person besides encountered the aforesaid hostility and idiosyncratic attacks for trying to amended the schoolhouse clime and summation inclusivity of parents,” Fam wrote. “I besides observed that if an idiosyncratic does not hold with the existent territory civilization of prioritizing societal justness implicit academics, the existent recognized quid pro quo, past they are targeted, dismissed, and ridiculed.”

She said, “No 1 who steps up to service their assemblage should beryllium met with that benignant of behavior.”

She besides expressed “fear” for the district’s future, citing an “unprecedented” decline successful enrollment and the district’s fiscal state, saying Broward County Public Schools “always appears to beryllium successful fiscal situation and begins needing residents to prime up the tab” and that residents “cannot afford” a planned 10-year summation successful spot taxes oregon increases connected interaction fees connected caller location purchases.

“My top fearfulness is that (the district) volition question a bail-out from residents successful 2026 successful the signifier of referendum funds from Broward County residents owed to the (board’s) nonaccomplishment to instrumentality a balanced fund and engaging successful wasteful overspending,” she wrote.

She added, “I person aged schoolhouse values and was taught that you don’t bargain what you can’t wage for. You don’t acquisition things that you cannot afford.”

Fam said she’d “forever treasure” the “unique accidental to basal up to” chap committee members and the Broward Teachers Union implicit schoolhouse choice.

Fam’s resignation is effectual May 1, according to the letter.

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