TEA Clearly Thinks Some HISD Trustees Are Fibbing, To Put it Delicately
Well it's official. The Texas Education Agency's investigation team has recommended the TEA replace the Houston ISD elected school board with a state-appointed board that will be in charge for a while. It'll still be up to Commissioner Mike Morath to pull the trigger.
In a massive report backed up with recovered emails and crowded with allegations of dysfunction and corruption that drips with sarcasm when it addresses the counter claims of several of the trustees, the TEA investigators carefully fill in more of the picture revealed in August, when the first news of what the investigators found was disclosed.
When contacted about the report, the HISD press office directed all inquiries to the TEA.
To recap: several of the trustees are accused of serial meddling and exceeding their authority by directing administrative staff and school staff to bow to their bidding. Five of them — Diana Davila, Sergio Lira, Holly Maria Flynn Vilaseca, Anne Sung and Elizabeth Santos — stand accused of violating the Texas Open Meetings Act by engineering a coup d'etat of the interim superintendent's position, conducting a walking quorum by meeting in private with their candidate Abe Saavedra to do so.
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