Chalkbeat Colorado: Nearly eight months after appointing a new board member to a vacant seat, a southern Colorado school board must redo the pick to comply with two court decisions in a case over open meetings law violations.

The Pueblo School District 70 school board, which has been awash in controversy after last year allowing a “public Christian school” to open within its boundaries, will discuss the process for selecting a fifth member at Tuesday’s meeting, according to the agenda.

A district court judge in August ruled the appointment of Susie Carnes, who had been serving as the board’s fifth member since February, invalid because it wasn’t done publicly. The school board appealed, but in late September a three-judge state appeals court panel declined to pause the ruling while the appeal moves forward.

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