Nueces Canyon Consolidated Independent School District v. Central Education Agency

In this administrative appeal, the Nueces Canyon Independent Consolidated School District challenges an order of the Commissioner of Education approving the detachment of territory from the district. The trial court admitted the administrative record into evidence and affirmed the order. The court of appeals affirmed the trial court’s judgment, holding that it could not consider the administrative record and, in addition, that Nueces Canyon presented a legally irrelevant challenge to the order. See 900 S.W.2d 417, 419-21. We reverse on both grounds.

In 1985, two families with three school-age…