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Exhaustion Was Required In Suit Alleging Breach Of The Administrator’s Non-Chapter 21 Employment Contract
In Shackelford v. Bonham Indep. Sch. Dist., No. 4:18-CV-00035 (E.D. Tex. July 31, 2018), a federal court dismissed a breach of contract action filed by a former employee of Bonham ISD for the employee’s failure to exhaust administrative remedies through the...
Texas Attorney General Sends Letter To Fort Worth ISD Demanding Human Sexuality Curriculum
Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote a letter to the Fort Worth Independent School District superintendent and board president, addressing parent complaints that they have been denied access to public records regarding FWISD’s human sexuality curriculum....
Can School Board Members Block Citizens From Posting On Their Social Media Accounts?
That is the question in a California case in which two citizens sued on First Amendment grounds after board members blocked them from posting on the board members’ Facebook and Twitter accounts. The board members blocked the citizens after they posted negative...
Dallas-Area Teacher Sues District for LGBTQ Discrimination
A Dallas-based teacher is suing the Mansfield Independent School District for discrimination following a sequence of events that led to her being put on leave and transferred to another district last fall. Stacy Bailey, an art teacher at Charlotte Anderson Elementary...
What “due process” was Required for the Termination of MS Superintendent?
Greenwood Public School District (GPSD) in Mississippi hired Montrell Greene as superintendent in April 2013. Greene held a three-year term contract through June 2018, but was terminated effective January 4, 2016, after three members of the GPSD Board of Trustees...
Can Parents Sue The Commissioner Over The STAAR Exam?
In Morath v. Lewis, No. 03-16-00603-CV, 2018 WL 1527875 (Tex. App. Mar. 29, 2018), the appeals court said, yes, and allowed a group of parents to proceed with their claim that the administration of the 2015-2016 STAAR exam violated their students’ rights. Chapter 39...
TEA completes work on comprehensive strategic action plan for special education
The following was reprinted from the Texas Education Agency website. Following an extensive statewide outreach effort that included more than 100 meetings statewide, Commissioner of Education Mike Morath announced today that the Texas Education Agency (TEA) has posted...
Trump Administration Closes Texas Civil Rights Probe
Since July 2017, officials from the U.S. Department of Education have closed at least 65 investigations into school discipline cases in districts singled out for disparately enacting strict disciplinary actions on minority students, including the school district in...
TX School Administrators Expect to Need More Funding for SPED Spikes
At a recent hearing hosted by the Texas Education Agency, school administrators from across the state testified that they expect they will need to receive more funding in order to accommodate the projected spike of students needing special education services this...
College District Employee Allowed To Proceed With Disability Discrimination & Retaliation Suit
After Christy Williams was terminated from her position at the Tarrant County College District (TCCD), she filed suit for discrimination, failure to accommodate, and retaliation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Texas Commission on Human Rights...