Overview
- Fuller will direct investigations and make decisions on certification sanctions, Do Not Hire listings, settlements and case closures.
- The agency pursued cases against more than 350 educators for comments after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, drawing a lawsuit from Texas AFT to stop the probes.
- New TEA guidance warns that teachers who facilitate student walkouts over immigration enforcement could face investigation and potential license revocation.
- Earlier enforcement targeted alleged fraudulent certification schemes that included claims of test impersonation by prospective teachers.
- A former Army JAG and Texas assistant attorney general who later served as chief of staff to Rep. Andy Hopper, Fuller will also advise the State Board for Educator Certification and top state officials.