Cherokee County school board member Kelly Marlow has been sanctioned for violating two of the board’s ethics policies and fined $3,600 — half of her $7,200 annual school board salary.
She is expected to appeal.
During a lengthy hearing Wednesday, the Cherokee board found that Marlow violated its code of ethics when she wrote a complaint letter in June to the school system’s accrediting agency, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
In the letter, Marlow said the district was violating SACS policies, a claim the accrediting agency later deemed unfounded.
The school board found that Marlow violated two ethics policies: one that says board members will recognize that the authority rests with the board as a whole and not any individual board members; and a second that bars board members from taking any private action that could compromise the school board or school system.
Marlow voted against both sanctions, as well as a motion that she pay $3,600 to help defray the expense of the hearing.
She voted with the board in July to hold the ethics hearing.
Marlow, a mother of twins and a substitute teacher, ran for Post 1 after Cherokee Charter Academy, a startup charter school she pushed to have built, was rejected by the board. She won election last year by 24 votes.
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