Austin ISD's school board is delaying its superintendent search and extending its interim leader's contract.
Members of a union representing AISD employees praised the school board for being flexible and keeping Segura in the interim role.
"At a time when regular education is in crisis, especially the performance of Black students and special education is in crisis and under an investigation, any thoughts of putting a non-educator in the superintendent seat is particularly disturbing," Roxanne Evans with the East Austin Coalition for Quality Education said in the recorded comment played Thursday night. Evans lost a race for a school board seat last fall.
Trustee Noelita Lugo noted recent AISD superintendents had experience as educators and did not get good results. Trustee David Kauffman said his previous misgivings about the fact that Segura was not an educator have been alleviated. "I think over the last several years we've been really good at saying where we want to be in two years but not necessarily proving how we're going to get there," he said.
"There might be some additional costs, but it's not like we're losing this contract and we have to start all over," she said.
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