Teacher wins appeal after being fired over immigration tweet
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/teacher-wins-appeal-after-being-fired-over-immigration-tweetFORT WORTH, Texas — An English teacher who was fired after tweeting to President Donald Trump that her Texas high school was full of students who are in the country illegally has won an appeal to get her job back.
Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath ruled Monday that Carter-Riverside High School teacher Georgia Clark’s tweet was protected by the First Amendment, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. Morath also determined that Clark is entitled to back pay and employment benefits, or the Fort Worth Independent School District can pay her a year’s salary.
“It appears the commissioner ruled the way he did based on a technicality and we are exploring all of our options,” said Barbara Griffith, a spokeswoman for the school district. “This is all we are going to say right now, as we have not yet had a chance to review and analyze the entire decision.”
It is normally hard to fire a teacher, but for Georgia Clark, she got fired rather quickly. Her firing has been overruled.
