Legal Opinion

Whitney v. El Paso Indep. Sch. Dist.

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided August 23, 2017No. 08-16-00007-CVPublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

ANN CRAWFORD McCLURE, Chief Justice *153Marda Whitney sued the El Paso Independent School District (EPISD) under the Texas Whistleblower statute. TEX.GOV'T CODE ANN. § 554.002 (West 2012). The case comes to us after the trial court granted EPISD's motion for summary judgment. For the reasons explained below, we affirm.

FACTUAL SUMMARY

Whitney was a long time teacher in EPISD. For the time-period at issue, she taught a computer literacy course to sixth graders at an El Paso middle school. EPISD has two policies, relevant here, that address what a teacher may teach in the classroom. The first policy…

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