• President Sue Tiernan, Joyce Chester, Kate Shaw, Karen Herrmann, and Daryl Durnell, all Democrats, were all fired on Tuesday 
  • Parent Beth Ann Rosica filed a petition against the five in February, stating that they violated a code for voting to make masks mandatory in schools 
  • The five – which make up the majority of the nine-member board – voted to keep the policy in place despite Pennsylvania’s state of emergency ending 
  • The state’s Supreme Court also ruled in December that mask mandates were ‘unconstitutional’ 
  • Masking in the West Chester school district is currently optional, but the board did vote to reinstate the policy if transmission rates rise 
  • A lawyer for the group filed for the judge to reconsider and give them until April 5 to respond, which would have been 20 days since the judge filed the motion