Longtime Florida school boards leader announces retirement

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Blanton

From the News Service of Florida:

The head of the Florida School Boards Association is stepping down in February.

Wayne Blanton, who will have served as executive director of the organization for 30 years when he retires and who worked for the association for 10 years before that, told The News Service of Florida on Tuesday that he’s decided it’s time.

“Forty years is a long time to do the same thing,” said Blanton, 68. He said he will continue working on education issues and will do some consulting work, but not full-time.

“I’m retiring, but not disappearing,” Blanton said.

The association represents school boards before the Legislature, state agencies and the federal government.


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BY Travis Pillow

Travis Pillow is Director of Thought Leadership at Step Up For Students and editor of NextSteps. He lives in Sanford, Fla. with his wife and two children. A former Tallahassee statehouse reporter, he most recently worked at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a research organization at Arizona State University, where he studied community-led learning innovation and school systems' responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. He can be reached at tpillow (at) sufs.org.