Albemarle County Public Schools was hit with another resignation on Aug. 4, as a School Board member announced her plans to step down just before the Board voted on moving ahead with an independent investigation into the school district. “I’m announcing that I’ve made the difficult decision to step down from the county School Board,” Allison Spillman, at-large representative and current vice chair, said to the room. In the wake of the arrests, the School Board asked former Superintendent Matthew Haas to resign. The School Board has 45 days, after Spillman’s last official day, to appoint someone to her seat. The Richmond-based attorneys previously represented the School Board and the district in a lawsuit over the district’s anti-racism policy as reported by The Daily Progress (subscription required).