Loudoun County Parent Group Collects Signatures To Oust School Board Members
Parents in Loudoun County, Virginia, have collected the necessary signatures to begin the process of pushing several school board members out of their positions, as well as create a petition to expel chairwoman Brenda Sheridan from the school board.
The group is called “Fight For Schools,” and its executive director, Ian Prior, said the “chairwoman, Brenda Sheridan has overseen and personally contributed to a complete breakdown in trust between the community and the Loudoun County School Board. From violating open meetings law to ignoring the school board’s code of conduct to neglecting to keep our children safe, all for her activist causes, Sheridan has been nothing short of a disaster as the so-called leader of Loudoun County Public Schools.”
“Let this serve as a message to the rest of the board and Superintendent [Scott] Ziegler: if you thought that this was all about an election, then you have once more failed to properly judge the resolve of your constituents,” Prior added. “We’re still here and we’re not going anywhere.”
The Washington Examiner reported:
County parents associated with the political action committee Fight for Schools announced to the board at its Tuesday meeting that they had compiled over 2,000 signatures to remove Loudoun County school board Chairwoman Brenda Sheridan. They also revealed they had enough signatures to initiate legal action to remove Vice-Chairwoman Atoosa Reaser and board members Ian Serotkin and Denise Curbo.
In an email to the Loudoun Times-Mirror, Sheridan said that “citizens of the Sterling District elected me in 2011, 2015 and 2019 … My election was a mandate from those who came to the polls — three times — to choose me as their representative. Tuesday’s filing is the result of a fraction of those citizens signing a petition, whether they voted or not.”
She pressed that she “will see this process through.”
As Newsmax reported, “Virginia law requires those seeking to remove elected officials to collect signatures totaling at least 10% of the votes cast in the previous election and file a petition, which then initiates court proceedings where a judge or jury decides if the official is removed.”
Parents have been upset with the school district over the alleged teaching of critical race theory and its push for transgender policies, a movement which heavily contributed to the recent win of Republican candidate for Virginia governor, Glenn Youngkin.
The deep problems with the school board have been heavily highlighted by reporting revealing that Loudoun County Public School (LCPS) “may have
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