Earlier this week, I spoke with Superintendent Marty Polio about his view of this possible task force.

Do you look at this piece of legislation as an attack on JCPenney?

Clearly an attack on J.C. Pierce, without a doubt.

And let me say this.

First and foremost, I've told the legislators this.

I have no problem with an audit.

I have no problem with even a commission to study JCPenney, if that's what is needed now.

I will say, how is that different than the task force that's being proposed?

Well, as and that's what I'm getting to.

First off, I've had six audits in my seven years and external audits that have come in and done a full audit of our district so we could do a meta analysis of all the results and they could get the answers that they seek.

But what I do think is it needs to be a fair commission or a task force that is truly.

So, for instance, we heard Ken Fleming say in that this is about student outcomes.

Well, if it's about student outcomes, then every district that is equivalent to us in student outcomes or lower than Jefferson County Public Schools should have the same commission as well.

You know, I said clearly, if it is about student or if it is if it's a fair commission, those that are the stakeholders in Jefferson County, that they need to be representative.

So, you know, when we look at first of all, I was not on their originally not even on the commission, no one on my team was on the commission.

We clearly know that a lot of facts can be thrown out there that are nasty, not facts.

That may not be true.

Someone needs to be on this commission to say, I'm sorry, that's not true.

Then I would ask how many people of color.

You know, we are a district that is over now.

60% students of color.

I think our populations in our district need to be represented.

And I'm not sure just a politician, a Senate representative or a House representative is the right person to do that evaluation.

You believe it would turn out to be a political partizan witch hunt?

I think so.

I mean, I don't know if that's 100% the case, but I've gone through plenty of audits that I feel have been and have not been.

And I think the makeup of the commission clearly tells the story of whether this would be a witch hunt or not.