Moses v. Fort Worth Independent School District

OPINION, DAUPHINOT, Justice.

Nelda Dukes (“Dukes”) is a school teacher who was suspended without pay for fifteen days by the Fort Worth Independent School District (“Fort Worth ISD”). Dukes filed her petition for review with the Commissioner of Education, Mike Moses, (“the Commissioner”) on December 31, 1996. Although Fort Worth ISD was required to file the complete local record from the suspension hearing with the Commissioner by January 20,1997, it failed to do so. The Commissioner granted Dukes’s appeal and ordered that Dukes should not be suspended. Fort Worth ISD sought judicial review of…