Marlin ISD superintendent in limbo after board, TEA actions
In the midst of the Texas Education Agency taking over struggling Marlin ISD, the district’s current board of trustees recently decided not to renew the superintendent’s contract for another year.
However, this doesn’t mean the district will go without leadership the rest of the school year while the TEA works through the process of selecting a board of managers to take over district operations, including the possible appointment of a new superintendent, Superintendent Michael Seabolt said via email Wednesday.
Seabolt’s contract officially expired Nov. 30, but the board’s decision to not renew and decline to approve an interim contract for Seabolt Monday prompted the TEA-appointed conservator to overturn the ruling and keep him at least through the end of the school year, he wrote. Seabolt was brought in over a year ago to turn the foundering district around.
“I can’t speak to the reasoning (of the board’s decision),” Seabolt wrote in the email to the Tribune-Herald. “I will say the board of trustees in Marlin ISD was never a problem. It has been a great board that supported me and my efforts 100 percent. Unfortunately, the law requires TEA to remove the board at this time. That is unfortunate since this process has created a problem that Marlin simply did not have. The law needs to be reconsidered.”
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