The Loudoun County School Board fired superintendent Scott Ziegler over his handling of two sexual assaults committed by the same student, a day after the release of a special grand jury report that found district administrators “failed at every juncture.”
The board voted unanimously Tuesday night to terminate Mr. Ziegler’s employment after a two-hour closed session on the grand jury’s 92-page report, which accused the superintendent of lying at a June 2021 board meeting by saying “we don’t have any record of assaults occurring in our restrooms.”
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares convened the grand jury in April after a student wearing a skirt raped a girl in a girls’ restroom in May 2021 at Stone Bridge High School, then assaulted another girl in October 2021 in a classroom at Broad Run High School after he was transferred.