It’s time for Liberty Public Schools to move on. Our kids have completed the school year and are looking forward to moving on to the next grade, and it’s time for those in our community who continue to denounce our school board members and school district leadership to move on, too.

Liberty patrons should know that our school board members donate more than 250 hours of their own time each year to oversee district operations. Many of them are parents of students in our district, and they take time away from their own children to provide public oversight of the district, whose $110 million budget employs 1,500 staff members and educates 10,000 Liberty students.

When allegations of financial mismanagement by former administrators surfaced, it was these board members who hired an independent certified public accounting firm to review these allegations. Then, it was these board members who sought applications for and appointed an Audit and Finance Committee to oversee the work of the independent CPA to develop policies and procedures to prevent this type of financial mismanagement from reoccurring, and to provide an ongoing review of all individual budgetary transactions. Finally, it was these board members who turned over the CPA’s report along with supporting documentation to local law enforcement officials to pursue prosecution of those former administrators. These board members sought to make right what was wrong and have put in many hours to do so.

Yet, there are a few members of our community — including newly elected school board member Mattie Ransom — who continue to call for these school board members to resign. I am disappointed in Mattie’s recent press release to Channel 41, which responded to the Public School Retirement System court case decision against the school district. Her communication was not only wrought with inaccuracies, it failed to tell the whole story. She was not acting as a leader of our school district but as someone with a personal agenda, still wanting to cast blame for past mistakes.

Our district needs school board members who are willing to work together and to move forward in holding the district accountable to its students, parents, patrons and taxpayers without continually bringing up the “sins of the past.” Like many other school districts, we are facing challenging times and we cannot rise to those challenges when school board members denounce other school board members.

I regularly attend our school board meetings, and I call upon the parents of Liberty district students, and especially our PTA members, to attend our school board meetings to see the actions of these school board members for yourselves.

I encourage you to log on to the district Web site to review the auditor’s reports, the budget reduction plans and other financial information. Finally, and most importantly, I urge you to remember that our district continues to be a high-performing district and our students have continued to receive a high-quality education, under the tutelage of these board members.

Let’s move on — we’ve got a community of kids to educate.

Deb Loomis is president of the Liberty Council of PTAs.