Overview
- NEISD’s board voted 6-0 Monday to select Anthony Jarrett as the sole finalist, triggering the 21-day waiting period before a hiring vote.
- Trustees limited the search to one week and skipped a search firm to cut costs while working to close a $19 million budget gap.
- Jarrett has served as interim superintendent since January after leading instruction as NEISD’s chief instructional officer and spending more than 25 years in education.
- NEISD agreed to a bell-to-bell cellphone ban for the fall after the Texas Education Agency threatened to install a conservator with power to overrule district leaders. The agency has not said whether oversight will still follow.
- If trustees finalize the hire in June, Jarrett would be the first Black man to lead the nearly 80-year-old district.