{"id":1185509,"date":"2022-01-04T01:34:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T06:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1185509"},"modified":"2022-01-04T01:34:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T06:34:19","slug":"embattled-texas-school-board-holds-closed-door-meeting-on-superintendent-under-assault-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/embattled-texas-school-board-holds-closed-door-meeting-on-superintendent-under-assault-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Embattled Texas School Board Holds Closed-Door Meeting on Superintendent Under Assault Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fembattled-texas-school-board-holds-closed-door-meeting-on-superintendent-under-assault-investigation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1185509&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The Round Rock, Texas, school board, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/round-rock-independent-school-district\/\">made<\/a> headlines for having its own armed agents arrest parents in their homes, is holding a closed-door meeting to consider the future of its superintendent.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Dr.&nbsp;Hafedh Azaiez is under investigation for claims of assault and has also been accused of using Round Rock Independent School District\u2019s police force to silence citizens critical of school board policy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Azaiez,&nbsp;who was <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/round-rock\/education\/2021\/06\/14\/breaking-round-rock-isd-hires-hafedh-azaiez-as-superintendent\/\">hired<\/a> in June 2021 on a three-year contract at $350,000 a year, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/tea-memo-suggests-round-rock-isd-superintendent-be-place-on-paid-administrative-leave\/ar-AASohGc\">recommended<\/a> to be put on administrative leave in a December 15 memo to school board president Amy Weir&nbsp;\u201cpending the outcome of an investigation regarding the underlying conduct found in a protective order issued by a Travis County District Court,\u201d according to KEYE Austin.<\/p>\n<p>Weir, for her part, has been actively trying to silence not only parents in the ISD, but also two fellow board members \u2014 who happen to be conservative.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, after board members Mary Bone and Danielle Weston \u2014 who also sent out the press release containing the allegations against&nbsp;Azaiez \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/17\/texas-school-board-targets-conservative-members-in-censure-attempt\/\">complained<\/a> that the board was violating Texas law by not allowing many members of the public into the meetings, Weir added censure resolutions to the meeting agenda in order to \u201cdestroy our reputations and inflict financial pain,\u201d according to Weston. The censure would also ban the conservative members from \u201cvisiting all Round Rock ISD properties in [their] official [capacities] as a Trustee without Board approval with the exception of Board Meetings.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>At the meeting Bone and Weston complained about, two fathers \u2014 Jeremy Story and Dustin Clark \u2014 were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/26\/armed-agents-in-texas-school-district-arrest-concerned-parents-in-their-own-homes\/\">arrested<\/a> for allegedly disrupting proceedings. Days later, the ISD\u2019s own police force was sent to Story\u2019s and Clark\u2019s homes and arrested them there.<\/p>\n<p>In August, while \u201cproduc[ing] evidence that the board had&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/vnqy9w-jeremy-story-tells-how-a-minister-and-an-army-captain-were-unlawfully-jaile.html?mref=6zof&amp;mrefc=10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">covered up<\/a>&nbsp;an&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/texasscorecard.com\/local\/questions-surround-central-texas-school-district-as-superintendent-is-accused-of-assault\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">alleged assault<\/a>&nbsp;by the superintendent, Hafedh Azaiez, against a mistress,\u201d Story, a minister, was cut off midsentence as Azaiez&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclesmagazine.org\/blog\/welcome-to-the-texas-gop-s-potemkin-village-of-conservatism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">ordered<\/a>&nbsp;armed officers to remove him from the premises.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18912466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/jeremy-story-facebook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18912466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/jeremy-story-facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremy Story forcibly removed from RRISD school board meeting by police. (Jeremy Story \/ Facebook)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When Clark, a retired Army captain, sought to speak, the school board \u201clocked the majority of parents out of the room, preventing them from speaking.\u201d While the parents were asking the school board to open the room for public comment on a major policy item \u2014 a mask mandate \u2014 \u201cschool board president Amy Weir directed officers to remove Clark from school property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The closed-door meeting was set for 2:00 p.m. Monday, which Clark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/round-rock-school-board-closed-meeting-superintendent-amid-scandal\">told<\/a> Fox News \u201cappears to be an effort to suppress parent comments by conducting a meeting during normal working hours which would exclude most parents and teachers in the community who would otherwise be at work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Breccan F. Thies<\/em>&nbsp;<em>is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreccanFThies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BreccanFThies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Round Rock, Texas, school board, which has made headlines for having its own armed agents arrest parents in their homes, is holding a closed-door meeting to consider the future &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}