Thread by @CognitaVagabond

1/9. 👇 @antraasa is talking about former Deputy Commissioner of @teainfo, Dr. Jeff Cottrill. In 2021, it was pretty widely known in #TxEd circles that Cottrill wanted to exit the agency & was looking for a superintendent position in Central Texas. #RRISD1family

2/9. If his name looks familiar to @RoundRockISD folks, that's because around 9/2021 Trustee #DanielleWeston had started cc'ing/bcc'ing Deputy Commissioner Cottrill on numerous internal emails (including several protected from disclosure as @tuxedo_jack has previously chronicled)

3/9. In 10/2021 the #RRISD school board received notice from Cottrill that @teainfo was assigning a monitor to our district & attributing this decision to a complaint filed by @RoundRockISD's former staff attorney against former board member & president Chad Chadwell in 2019.

4/9. In 12/2021 @teainfo announced that David Faltys had been assigned to monitor @RoundRockISD. His 1st recommendation was that the newly hired superintendent be placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation of a civil action filed against him.

5/9. the widely known education law firm Walsh Gallegos referred former superintendent #AnnDixon to do an independent investigation. At that time two other agencies were also investigating allegations against Dr. Azaiez & both of those concluded with no findings of wrongdoing.

6/9. After #AnnDixon's "investigation" the board voted 5-2 to have a report finalized for a meeting on 3/8/22. #TerribleTwo Trustees #DanielleWeston & #MaryBone voted "no". The board voted to reinstate Dr. Hafedh Azaiez as superintendent in an identical 5-2 vote on 3/24/22.

7/9. Ann Dixon's report was inconclusive but in it she stated the following: "Dr. Azaiez in (her) opinion could not come back into his position and be effective." A majority of the board disagreed with the conclusion reached by #AnnDixon in her report.

8/9. By this point a majority of the board had likely figured out what Dr. Michael Seabolt already knew — #AnnDixon is NOT trained or certified as an INVESTIGATOR— but she seems more than willing to reach a specific conclusion to justify a desired outcome.

https://twitter.com/CognitaVagabond/status/1579912955701133312?t=6zaPjIYXtdORhGjrBF3ZGQ&s=19

9/9. On 5/10/2022, six weeks after the @RoundRockISD school board finally voted to reinstate Dr. Azaiez as the superintendent, Deputy Commissioner Jeff Cottrill was named the lone finalist to become the new Superintendent of IDEA Public Schools. ideapublicschools.org/blog/idea-publ…