Mark Hand The (Lynchburg) News & Advance

LYNCHBURG — The Lynchburg branch of the NAACP is demanding the school board reverse its decision to ban a longtime city schools advocate from speaking at future meetings after he went beyond his allotted time during the public comment period at Tuesday’s board meeting.

When city resident Danny McCain said he would sit down only after the school board agreed to meet with him to discuss the achievement gap between Black and white students in Lynchburg, board Vice Chair Martin Day suggested he might need to call the police to have him removed from the meeting room.

As McCain continued to request the school board meet with him, the Lynchburg City School Board, in a 6-1 vote, approved a motion introduced by Day and seconded by District 1 member Christ

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