Former Houston ISD educator Michelle Williams has filed a state appeal and federal civil rights lawsuit against HSID, challenging her termination after the district’s Board of Managers voted to override an independent hearing examiner’s recommendation that she be reinstated.
Williams spent 26 years in Houston classrooms, teaching third-graders. She has also been a vocal critic of the state takeover of HISD and the state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles and Board of Managers.
After six days in her classroom at Benbrook Elementary School, she was pulled from her students and placed on home duty for six months. Now she’s fighting back, in two courts simultaneously…