Op-Ed: Area superintendents: Losing local control of schools stretches beyond pandemic – Effingham Daily News

"We would grant that public safety is of the utmost importance – we want to protect our kids, employees and ourselves, too – and that people of good intention may differ on the approaches to this pandemic and how best to protect the short- and long-term health and interests of our students. What we would not concede is that we must abandon our principles as a nation in order to preserve and protect the nation and its citizens. Among those principles is the rule of law."