NELSON v. WEATHERWAX

No. 2-00-287-CV.

59 S.W.3d 340 (2001)

Jim NELSON, Commissioner of Education for the State of Texas and Fort Worth Independent School District, Appellant, v. Ann WEATHERWAX, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

October 11, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Cornyn, Atty. Gen., Andy Taylor, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Jeffrey S. Boyd, Deputy Atty. Gen. for Litigation, Don Walker, Chief, Administrative Law Division, George Warner, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, for Appellant Commissioner of Education.

Chappell, Parmelle, Johnson & Hill, P.C., Robert S. Johnson, Rita Rodriguez Utt, Fort Worth, for Fort Worth Independent School Dist.

Ortiz and Associates, Daniel A. Ortiz, Rossetti and Goetz, Shane Goetz, Arlington, for Appellee.

Panel A: CAYCE, C.J.; LIVINGSTON and WALKER, JJ.


OPINION

SUE WALKER, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

This is an administrative appeal from the decision of the Commissioner of Education ("commissioner") upholding the Fort Worth Independent School District's ("FWISD") termination of its contract with special education teacher Ann Weatherwax ("Weatherwax"). The district court reversed the decision of the commissioner. On appeal, the commissioner and FWISD contend that the district court erred because education...

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