The Texas Education Agency launched the Educator Misconduct Reporting Dashboard on June 2, 2026, a first-of-its-kind public accountability tool created under Senate Bill 571 of the 89th Texas Legislature that tracks, for the first time in one place, how the state receives, investigates, and acts upon misconduct allegations against school personnel. The dashboard is administered by Inspector General Levi Fuller of the TEA’s newly created Office of the Inspector General for Educator Misconduct, and was built under sustained pressure from parents who, in case after case, had watched terminated teachers quietly move across district lines with no public record trailing them.
The agency receives approximately 1,600 misconduct reports per month, roughly 13,000 cases annually, and the dashboard is the first mechanism that puts those aggregate numbers in front of parents and lawmakers in real time. Follow ObjectWire’s Greater Texas investigative desk for continuing coverage of accountability reporting across the state.
Texas Educator Misconduct Dashboard | SB 571 and the Office of Inspector General
Senate Bill 571 was passed during the 89th Regular Legislative Session in direct response to growing parent and advocacy organization pressure following a documented pattern of abuse and safety incidents inside Texas classrooms. The bill created the Office of the Inspector General for Educator Misconduct within the TEA and mandated the development of a public-facing transparency tool that could serve as a unified state record of how allegations flow through the disciplinary pipeline.
Inspector General Fuller, appointed to lead the new office, described the dashboard at its June 2 launch as a structural commitment by the state to stop treating educator misconduct as an administrative matter handled behind closed doors. The TEA’s official press release accompanying the launch cited the Texas Association of School Boards compliance index and SB 571 directives on public school safety metrics as the governing framework for what the dashboard must disclose and how frequently data must be updated.
The tool marks the most significant expansion of public educator accountability infrastructure in Texas in over a decade. It sits alongside the existing Texas Education Agency’s public portal and is intended to make the State Board for Educator Certification’s disciplinary record legible to ordinary parents rather than only to district HR departments and legal counsel.
Dashboard Metrics | 13,000 Annual Reports, Four Tracking Categories
The dashboard is organized into four primary data categories that move a misconduct case from initial report through to final disposition. Together they are designed to answer the questions that parents have most consistently asked state officials: how many complaints are filed, what kinds of conduct trigger investigations, how many cases reach formal sanctions, and which individuals have been permanently removed from Texas schools.
| Dashboard Category | What It Tracks |
|---|---|
Misconduct ReportsMonthly and annual | A numeric tally of all complaints submitted to the TEA. The agency receives approximately 1,600 reports per month, totaling around 13,000 cases annually. |
Active Educator InvestigationsBy offense type | Open investigations classified by offense category: school-related violence, drug and alcohol infractions, financial fraud, and inappropriate student-educator relationships or sexual misconduct. |
SBEC SanctionsFormal disciplinary rulings | Volume of cases that have resulted in formal disciplinary rulings or certificate suspensions by the State Board for Educator Certification. |
Do Not Hire Registry300 to 500 added annually | Cumulative record of individuals permanently or temporarily banned from Texas public schools, charter schools, or school contractor roles. Between 300 and 500 educators are added each year. |
The four-category structure reflects a deliberate attempt to make the pipeline transparent at every stage rather than only at the point of final sanction. Prior to the dashboard, parents could only access SBEC sanction records, the end of the pipeline, with no visibility into how many complaints were filed, how many were actively under investigation, or how quickly cases were moving toward resolution.
Fort Bend ISD Incidents | Jan Schiff Elementary and the Cases Behind SB 571
The urgency behind the dashboard is not abstract. Among the specific local cases that gave the legislative push its momentum was a series of incidents at Jan Schiff Elementary School in Fort Bend ISD, surfaced publicly by parent Daniel Hall. Hall and other parents came forward after reviewing school surveillance footage that allegedly showed classroom staff physically manhandling students. The footage was specific enough that parents could identify individual staff members and document the interactions.
In a separate and distinct incident within the same district, another parent reported reviewing footage that showed a staff member threatening a child and spraying alcohol directly into a student’s face. Fort Bend ISD confirmed to reporters that the employees involved in both sets of incidents were terminated following district investigation. But the terminations themselves illustrated exactly the problem parents were bringing to the legislature: a terminated educator in Texas had no statewide public record attached to their name. They could apply to a neighboring district the following week, and that district’s HR department would have no mandatory access to the termination context.
The Do Not Hire Registry addresses the most severe end of this problem. But as parents testified before the legislature, the registry only captures cases that have advanced to formal SBEC action, a bar that many terminations, particularly those resolved at the district level with separation agreements, never reach. The broader Austin legislative accountability beat has tracked multiple similar disclosure gaps in Texas public agency reporting over the last session.
Do Not Hire Registry | 300 to 500 Texas Educators Banned Annually
The Do Not Hire Registry is the dashboard’s most consequential data set for parents conducting their own due diligence. It is a statewide clearinghouse of individuals who have been permanently or temporarily banned from working in Texas public schools, charter schools, or in any role as a school contractor. The registry applies across all 1,000-plus school districts in the state and is not limited to certified teachers, capturing aides, contractors, and non-certified support staff who have been formally excluded.
According to the data published at the dashboard’s launch, between 300 and 500 educators are added to the registry each year. The annual range reflects variation in the SBEC’s case processing volume and the mix of permanent versus temporary exclusions. Permanent bans are issued for the most serious offense categories, including sexual misconduct with a student, while temporary bans cover a broader range of conduct that may be revisited through petition after a defined period.
Before the dashboard, the registry existed as a searchable but low-visibility resource that most parents did not know to consult. Placing it inside the dashboard’s four-metric framework, alongside the raw complaint volume and active investigation data, is intended to give it the prominence that advocates argued it lacked as a standalone record.
Dashboard Limitations | No Names During Investigations, No District Filters at Launch
Parent and safety advocacy groups have broadly praised the dashboard as a structural advance, but they have also been direct about its current limitations. The two most significant gaps at launch are the absence of educator names during the active investigation phase and the absence of district-level or campus-level data filters.
On the naming question, the dashboard deliberately withholds the identities of educators who are under active investigation but have not yet been sanctioned. The TEA’s position, consistent with standard due process protections in professional licensing contexts, is that publishing names before formal findings creates reputational harm to individuals who may ultimately be cleared. Inspector General Fuller noted at the launch that names become public on the dashboard only once the SBEC has formally levied a sanction, at which point the educator’s record becomes part of the public sanction database by operation of law.
The dashboard tells you the system is working. What it does not yet tell you is whether the problem is concentrated in your district, your campus, or your child’s grade level. That is the next version parents are waiting for.
On the filtering question, the dashboard currently presents statewide aggregate numbers only. A parent in Houston cannot use the current tool to pull the misconduct report volume or active investigation count for Houston ISD specifically. The TEA acknowledged this limitation at launch and indicated that district-level misconduct statistics are in active development as a future compliance module, contingent on completing the data verification framework required to ensure the localized figures are accurate before they are published.
SBEC Sanctions | How Misconduct Cases Reach Formal Certification Action
The State Board for Educator Certification is the licensing authority for Texas educators and the body that issues, suspends, and revokes the certificates that allow individuals to teach in the state’s public schools. SBEC sanctions represent the formal end of the disciplinary pipeline for the most serious misconduct cases and are the threshold at which an educator’s name becomes publicly attributable to a disciplinary finding.
Not all 13,000 annual misconduct reports advance to SBEC action. The TEA’s Office of the Inspector General screens incoming reports, conducts initial investigations, and refers cases that meet the threshold for formal certification action to the SBEC. Cases resolved at the district level, or found to lack sufficient evidence after TEA investigation, do not generate an SBEC sanction record. The dashboard’s SBEC sanctions metric allows the public to see, at the aggregate level, what fraction of reported misconduct ultimately reaches formal certification consequences.
This is the metric that advocacy groups will watch most closely over the coming reporting cycles to assess whether the dashboard reflects a genuine increase in accountability or whether the gap between reports filed and sanctions issued remains as wide as critics have historically claimed. Investigative reporting on the failures of institutional accountability in Texas has consistently found that the distance between incident documentation and formal consequence is where systemic failures embed themselves.
Texas Educator Misconduct Dashboard 2026 | What Parents Can Do Right Now
The dashboard is live at the TEA’s public portal as of June 2, 2026. Parents can access the four core metrics, file a misconduct report directly through the dashboard interface, and search the Do Not Hire Registry by name to check whether a specific individual has been formally excluded from Texas schools. The SBEC sanction database, linked from the dashboard, provides the full record of formal certificate actions and is searchable by educator name.
The TEA is actively soliciting public feedback on the dashboard through the Inspector General’s office contact channel as it develops the district-level compliance modules. Parent organizations including the Texas Association of School Boards have indicated they will track the data quarterly and use the misconduct report volume and SBEC sanction ratio as advocacy benchmarks in the next legislative session. For broader U.S. school accountability and education policy coverage, follow ObjectWire’s national desk.
Jack Brennan covers investigations and public accountability reporting for ObjectWire. Tips on educator misconduct cases, district retaliation against parents, or gaps in the dashboard’s data can be submitted through ObjectWire’s editorial tip channel.
Sources: Investigative reporting by Tony Atkins, ABC13 Eyewitness News Houston, published June 3, 2026. Supplementary broadcast reporting by Pachatta Pope, KSAT 12 San Antonio, and Adrian Carbajal, 6 News Waco, published June 5 to 9, 2026. TEA Launches Educator Misconduct Dashboard and Student Protection Resource Center, official press release issued by the Texas Education Agency, Austin, Texas, June 2, 2026. Texas Senate Bill 571, 89th Regular Legislative Session.