Lessons from the Sexual-Assault Cover-Up in Loudoun County Schools

Is your local school board doing the job it’s supposed to?

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Then-Loudoun County Public Schools superintendent Scott Ziegler walks to his seat before a school board meeting in Ashburn, Va., August 10, 2021.

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For nearly two years, teachers’ unions and school-district bureaucrats have told parents in Loudoun County, Va. — one of the richest suburbs in the nation — that there was nothing to the scandals swirling around “woke” lesson plans and the alleged sexual assault of students.

Now Loudoun’s liberal school board has suddenly fired its superintendent after a devastating grand-jury report concluded district officials lied and “the district was looking out for its own interests instead of the best interests of its students,” Fox News reported. According to the report, the cover-up that Loudoun officials engaged in “led to a stunning lack of openness, transparency, and accountability.”

John Fund

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John Fund is National Review’s national-affairs reporter.

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