TxSSC
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Board of Directors
2020-2021 Scheduled Meetings
The agenda downloads and public comment form will be available prior to each meeting date.
The TxSSC is advised by a Board of Directors consisting of 17 members required by statute to convene a minimum of four times per year. The board is required to be composed of the attorney general, the commissioner, the executive director of the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission, commissioner of the Department of State Health Services, the commissioner of higher education or designee or any of their respective designees. In addition, governor appointments to the board include a juvenile court judge, member of a school district’s board of trustees, administrator of a public primary school, administrator of a public secondary school, member of the state parent-teacher association, teacher from a public primary or secondary school, public school superintendent who is a member of the Texas Association of School Administrators, school district police officer, a professional architect who is registered in this state and a member of the Texas Society of Architects; and three members of the public. The responsibilities of the board include the following:
- To approve the TxSSC’s budget for programs that further the TxSSC’s legislatively prescribed purposes or responsibilities and that fall within the TxSSC’s express or necessarily implied powers.
- To report to the governor, the legislature, the State Board of Education, and the Texas Education Agency by January 1 of odd numbered years a biennial report. This biennial report shall consist of any findings made by the TxSSC regarding school safety and security and the TxSSC’s functions, budget information, and strategic planning initiatives.
- To advise the TxSSC.
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Craig Bessent
Member at Large
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Lizeth Cuellar Olivarez
Public Teacher
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Edwin S. Flores, Ph.D
Member of Board of Trustees
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Craig Goralski
Texas Education Agency
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Bryan Hedrick
School-Based Law Enforcement
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Andrew B. Kim
Superintendent
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Robert Martinez
Office of the Attorney General
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James M. Mosely
Juvenile Court Judge
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Lillian Nguyen
Health & Human Services Commission
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Teresa K. Oldham
Member at Large
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Kerri Ranney
Professional Architect
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Michael L. Slaughter, Ph.D
Public Secondary School Administrator
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Jill M.Tate
Texas Parent Teacher Association
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Alan Trevino
Member at Large
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Marie Welsch, PhD, LPC
Texas Juvenile Justice Department
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Robert W. Wilson, Ed.D
Public Primary School Administrator
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John Wyatt
Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board