Texas Teacher Loses Fight With District That Fired Her For Tweeting School Full of 'Illegal Students
A former English teacher in Fort Worth, Texas, will not resume her previous role at Carter-Riverside High School after requesting that undocumented students be deported in a series of addressed to then-President Donald Trump almost two years ago.
Following an extended sequence of legal proceedings, a Travis County district court judge Georgia Clark's firing in a Tuesday ruling, according to Dallas-Fort Worth's CBS affiliate.
Trustee board members from the Fort Worth Independent School District (ISD) originally voted to dismiss Clark in the summer of 2019, about a month after she asked Trump "for assistance in reporting illegal immigrants in the FWISD public school system" and urged his administration to "remove" undocumented people from Fort Worth in multiple messages shared publicly on Twitter. At the time, trustees unanimously supported Superintendent Kent Scribner's recommendation to terminate Clark, and formally voted to fire her in September.
Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath moved to reverse the district's decision and appointed an independent examiner to review Clark's case. The commissioner ultimately ruled that her tweets were constitutionally protected under the First Amendment, and pushed for the district to not only reinstate Clark, but compensate her for time spent unemployed or offer year one year's salary as an alternative.
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