Manassas City School Board member Sara Brescia sued the board she sits on. Last week they settled. No money changed hands. Nobody admitted fault. The investigation order is gone — and she says colleagues had already talked about pulling her daughters out of Baldwin Elementary.

Uriah Kiser sits down with Brescia, first elected in 2022 and running at-large again on the November 3 ballot, about how a June conversation at Baldwin turned into a TikTok, a police review, texts among board members, an August 6 email from colleague Diana Brown, and a lawsuit filed August 11. Brescia says sitting chair Jill Spall urged Superintendent Dr. Kevin Newman to open an investigation based on allegations from Baldwin family liaison Michael Gramajo — the partner of her election opponent, Marcus Still. She says an August 3 closed session left the employee topic ...