Some board members say that could increase political influence

Committees designed to advise Scottsdale Unified School District officials on curriculum and textbook choices could soon be moved out from under the authority of the superintendent’s office and placed under the governing board’s purview.

The moves could increase transparency and improve parent and guardian participation, according to board member Amy Carney, who is championing them.

However, others on the board feel the moves would fix nonexistent problems and would open the committees’ work up to the political views held by the board members.

The board, which is supposed to be nonpartisan, is strictly split between Republicans Carney and Carine Werner and Democrats Dr. Matthew Pittinsky, board vice president Mike Sharkey a

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