Ruling: An ISD properly nonrenewed a school school counselor’s contract due to substantial circumstantial evidence that the she changed her daughter’s grades to boost the daughter’s school ranking to valedictorian status.
Ruling: A school district properly fired a teacher for dragging an unruly third-grade student down a hallway for about six seconds.
Ten decisions — and nine proposals for decisions — were issued in June.
A school board must conduct further proceedings before the education commissioner can …
Ruling: The education commissioner lacks the authority to overrule a school district’s disciplinary action against a student who sent a text threatening to “shoot up” the school.
Ruling: An ISD’s board violated state education law by not holding a hearing on an ex-employee’s grievance.
Ruling: An ISD’s policy on reviewing and removing library books does not violate state law.
Ruling: A school board can’t shirk its responsibility to consider a parental grievance by invoking a lack-of-a-quorum board meeting loophole.
Accused teacher who helped leak confidential info about his student accuser loses education commissioner appeal.
Ruling: Although an ISD failed to show that its human resource’s director committed fraud, the…
Ruling: An ISD’s refusal to award weighted credit to a student who took a junior…
Ruling: A parent (and her attorney) can view — but not “receive” — video surveillance footage that the parent claims may have captured a teacher’s alleged assault of her special-ed child. That’s because the footage is not the subject of litigation the parent has filed.
Ruling: An ISD’s board properly voided its chief financial officer’s employment contract because the contract…
Ruling: An ISD properly nonrenewed a teacher’s contract over his reported admission that he had…
Ruling: A school district can’t arbitrarily block a parent’s special-ed grievance from reaching the school board level for a decision just because the TEA has ruled on the parent’s separate special-ed complaint to the agency.
An appeal to the education commissioner over an ISD’s disqualification of a graduating senior for the senior class trip to Florida is dismissed because the trip has been completed (and for other reasons).
An ISD justifiably fired an elementary principal for not immediately and adequately investigating an alleged incident at her school — and for taking too long (five days) to report the alleged incident to district higher-ups.
Ruling: The education commissioner lacks the legal authority to consider a school board member’s complaint…
Ruling: A school district taxpayer — who has no children enrolled in the district —…
Ruling: An independent hearing examiner did nothing wrong by holding a scheduled due process hearing…
Ruling: A school board’s decision to deny a grievance filed by two former board members is upheld.
Ruling: An ISD board’s firing of its superintendent was justified due to evidence that she…
Ruling: An ISD should have obtained parental written permission before administering two psychological “screenings” to…
Ruling: A school board must first make specific findings that library books challenged by a…
Ruling: A superintendent’s “disruptive relationships” — that resulted in the district spending more than $1.3…
Ruling: The commissioner lacks the legal authority to consider employment termination appeals arising from charter…
Ruling: The education commissioner lacks the legal authority to grant appeals seeking the removal of…
Ruling: The education commissioner lacks the legal authority to overturn the termination of an “at-will”…
Ruling: An ISD did not have to follow the steps required under its reduction in force (RIF) policy when nonrenewing the term contract of a grant-funded administrator when the grant funding the position ran out.
Ruling: The education commissioner lacks the legal authority to consider complaints about school boards’ censure resolutions that do not violate Texas school laws, and he cannot require that school boards reprimand school employees.
Ruling: An ISD timely informed a teacher that her school board had voted to terminate her probationary contract.
An appeal to the education commissioner by several families seeking to overturn the decisions by two school boards to reject their annexation/detachment petitions is dismissed.
Ruling: The education commissioner can’t overturn a school board decision to void an employment contract…
Ruling: A parent’s appeal asking that the education commissioner order an ISD to entirely remove…
Ruling: A parent’s claim of being a “low risk” registered sex offender doesn’t exempt him…
Ruling: A teacher waited too long to challenge the termination of her probationary contract 22 years ago.
Ruling: An ISD did not have to grant a disabled parent’s request for paper based…
Ruling: A former ISD athletic coach skipped the procedural steps required to ensure that the…
Ruling: A school district must exempt a student from state-required accelerated instruction if the student’s…
Ruling: Decisions by charter schools are not appealable to the …
Ruling: A teacher was not entitled to learn the identities of the students and parents…
The education commissioner recently dismissed the following parental appeals for procedural reasons — such as…
Ruling: A school board fired a high school assistant principal for “good cause” because she:…
Ruling: Classroom video, parental complaints, a letter from a disability rights advocacy group — and…
Ruling: A school board should not have indefinitely postponed the consideration of an employee’s grievance…
Ruling: An ISD didn’t give a parent the legally required prior warning before summarily issuing…
Ruling: A parental complaint alleging that a 12-year-old female student was subjected to “egregious, brutal,…
Ruling: Believing that a teacher had committed “particularly heinous crimes” did not justify a school…
Ruling: A state law that allows parents to give written notice to excuse their children…
Ruling: A school employee’s claim that he was given the wrong type of employment contract…
Ruling: An ISD didn’t violate state parental rights laws by telling a parent — who…
Ruling: The education commissioner is not legally empowered to consider a complaint over an ISD’s…
Ruling: A school board did not have to give its director of maintenance and transportation…
Ruling: A citizen’s complaint that an ISD’s leadership failed to address poor testing performance and…
Ruling: A parent who previously filed special-ed related complaints against her child’s ISD with the…
Ruling: Although an independent hearing examiner (IHE) apparently violated state law by granting an ISD’s…
Ruling: An ISD’s request to extend the state mandated deadline to grant a parental request…
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