Douglas County School Board Update: Perjury Investigation Dropped, Lawsuit Grinds On

As classes started this week in the Douglas County School District (despite nearly 500 open jobs), there were two major developments in the ongoing soap opera involving the Douglas County Board of Education.

First, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office dropped its perjury investigation into two boardmembers, Mike Peterson and Christy Williams, over testimony that they gave in court related to the February firing of superintendent Corey Wise. And second, Douglas County resident Robert Marshall, the plaintiff in a lawsuit against the board as a whole as well as Peterson, Williams and colleagues Kaylee Winegar and Becky Myers (Marshall is also the Democratic nominee for Colorado House District 43), formally replied to the defendants’ argument against granting a summary judgment on his…