Confederate School Name Clash: Austin trustee requests censure of fellow board member
Austin district trustee Ann Teich asked fellow school board members Wednesday afternoon to consider censuring Trustee Ted Gordon for publicly criticizing the board.
The request, made during a board operations meeting, is the latest move in ongoing board clashes related to the trustees’ delay in deciding whether to remove the names of Confederate figures from five schools.
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Teich said she wanted trustees to consider the censure “for his comments on two different separate occasions about the board of trustees, which includes all of us. They were unprofessional comments, they were not done face to face, they were not discussed with us at all. That, in my opinion, violates our current board handbook provisions about board member behavior.”
Gordon, an associate professor at the University of Texas, was not at Wednesday’s board operations meeting and was not immediately available for comment.
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Gordon, the only African American trustee on the board, previously said the trustees had “no moral compass and moral spine” on the issue and didn’t act to “remove the names of traitors who took up arms to defend slavery and destroy their nation… because it is afraid of the tensions that are produced by the prospects of change.”
Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/local-education/confederate-school-name-clash-austin-trustee-requests-censure-fellow-board-member/nNErhpZtNYk1d9GcnT2oJI/
