Commissioner Mike Morath told a House panel Monday that he “regrets” that the conversation occurred, according to a Texas Tribune reporter.
Morath, who said that the TEA’s role is to provide leadership and support to districts in unbiased ways, also confirmed that the employee was reprimanded, though he did not provide details on that action.emailed to San Antonio Report columnist Robert Rivard last week, Lecholop apologized for the comments and said he is “staunchly supportive of high quality Texas public schools.”
In the recording, first reported by the Tribune, Lecholop encouraged an unidentified mother disgruntled with the Joshua Independent School District to share her story with Gov. Greg Abbott’s speech writer, adding that it would be a good way to “stick it” to the public school district. Lecholop also said that districts would have to prioritize funding, admitting that a voucher program could cause a negative financial situation for the ISDs. If a district loses students, he said, officials would have to “be smart about how they allocate their resources, and maybe that’s one less fourth-grade teacher.”
“The way that funding for public schools is, it provides funding for the students that go to those schools,” he said. “Those schools will continue to attract new students every single year and their funding will remain in place.”
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