Sarasota School Board

The board's resolution defines sex as male or female, acknowledges the importance of single-sex bathrooms and directs the superintendent to consider no policy changes while legal challenges play out.

The vote was non-binding. Only the governor can unseat an elected school board member for things like malfeasance, incompetence or committing a felony.

A workshop by the board is scheduled for earlier in the day, beginning at 1 p.m. The meeting itself starts at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

The five-member Sarasota School Board is dominated by four conservatives. The two members who won election on the same slate as Ziegler, Tim Enos and Robyn Marinelli, have not commented.

School board chair Bridget Ziegler voted against the move to spend $40,000 to redraw the maps, saying she was "indifferent." Board member Tom Edwards questioned the need for the costly expenditure.

Brennan Asplen said in a letter it was with a "heavy heart" that he has accepted the end of his two years at the helm of the A-rated school district.

Bridget Ziegler was the only board member to give Brennan Asplen a performance review saying he needed improvement; the rest deemed him effective or highly effective.

The new members of the 4-1 conservative majority have not said publicly why they moved to discuss Brennan Asplen's termination at their first meeting Nov 22.

Political action committees with backing from GOP donors contributed money to local school board races in several states, including Florida.

The governor endorsed three school board candidates in Sarasota County and they all won.