Dallas ISD: An Examination Of The Alarming Issue Of Teacher-Related Sexual Abuse

A public record database shows more than 100 teacher sex abuse cases – many shrouded in mystery – in Dallas ISD in recent years.

Out of several hundred misconduct cases, approximately 150 had a sexual element, the Texas Public School Teacher Discipline database by the Open Records Project revealed.

This included 75 SXIS (sexual misconduct in school), 39 IRWSM (inappropriate relationship with student or minor), 16 SEXHAR (sexual harassment), and one SXNS (sexual misconduct non-school) cases.

Seven SXIS cases were marked as Unknown or Uknown Dallas ISD, indicating that the identity of the perpetrator was known at some time and then struck from the record. These were not the only mysterious records; there were seven misconduct cases coded as violence in school or miscellaneous with the Unknown or Unknown Dallas ISD placeholding for the perpetrators’ names.  In each case, the open and close dates on the investigation were removed, making it difficult to determine how long various educational entities would have looked into the case.

Only three teachers with a sexual misconduct offense were added to the “Do Not Hire” registry.

Every case that had an internal intake date was marked between 2021 and 2024. A note at the top of the search function indicates that the records were last updated on August 28, 2024.

The attached information did not indicate the number of victims, their age or gender, or what may have happened.

Additionally, there was no information in every case to show which school the alleged offenses occurred.

A spokesman for the Open Records Project said that the records used to produce this database were obtained from Public Information Act requests with the Texas Education Agency.

The Dallas Express asked the DISD Board of Trustees about these cases, the dangers to children, and how some of the alleged perpetrators came to have their identities redacted. DX contacted trustees Lance Currie (District 1), Sarah Weinberg (District 2), Dan Micciche (District 3), Camile D. White (District 4), Maxie Johnson (District 5), Joyce Foreman (District 6), Ben Mackey (District 7), Joe Carreón (District 8), and Ed Turner (District 9).