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Parents and staff raise grievances, ACE-program transparency and pay concerns during public comment
Summary
Multiple speakers used public comment time to allege staff misconduct, call for transparency in ACE program outcomes, describe frustration with grievance procedures, and press the district on staff pay amid inflation and voucher proposals.
Several United ISD community members used the meeting’s public-comment period to raise concerns about campus practices, program transparency and staff compensation.
Aurora Barrios, who identified herself as a substitute teacher with bachelor’s and master’s degrees, said an assistant principal at a campus publicly reprimanded and “humiliated” her on March 21, 2025, after she covered classes she said she had been assigned to fill. Barrios described being told by the assistant principal, in front of staff and students, “I don’t pay you to do anything.” She said she was not refusing assignments but had not received a break and that the reprimand was unfair.
Letty Juarez, who identified herself as…
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