New Online TEA Educator Misconduct Reporting Dashboard is Now Live

posted on 7.20.2026

A new online Texas Education Agency tool mandated by Texas lawmakers indicates that there have been thousands of Texas educator misconduct reports since a bill went into effect in 2025.

SB 571 by Sen. Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston, targeted loopholes in Texas’ “do not hire” problem educator registry and expanded the TEA’s ability to investigate educator misconduct.

It’s the byproduct of a Texas broadcaster’s investigative journalism which has now led to a state policy change that protects the public and improves transparency. 

Bettencourt vowed to pass a bill in the last session after seeing a KXAN-TV Austin investigation on a 
a former juvenile corrections officer who was able to get a tutoring job at an Austin ISD campus, despite the Texas

Juvenile Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General already determining he had an inappropriate relationship with a juvenile.

The Educator Misconduct Reporting dashboard launched in May and provides transparency on the state’s efforts to protect students. 

It features four main components – misconduct reports, educator active investigations, State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC) sanctions, and the State of Texas’ so-called “Do Not Hire” registry.

KXAN’s Ava Brendgord recently reported on the dashboard and how its components shed more light on problem educators, school support staff, and the state’s actions regarding them.

Her reporting showed TEA had received 13,390 misconduct reports since September 2025, averaging more than 1,600 per month. 

“The number of reports more than doubled compared to fiscal year 2025; this may be due to the new requirements under SB 571,” said Brendgord.

Her report also indicated that TEA had 9,724 educator investigations between September 2025 and April 2026. 

“78.5 percent of these cases involved direct harm to students,” said Brendgord, while 21.5 percent involved ‘indirect harm.’

While the numbers are alarming, state education officials say the bill’s goal of ridding “bad actors” from schools is working.

“I don’t want anyone to be disheartened by the increased reports, by the increased investigations,” Levi Fuller, the TEA’s inspector general for education misconduct, told SBEC board members in May. 

“These are good things, and if we are successful then eventually these numbers will go down.”

Questions? Contact TAB’s Michael Schneider or call (512) 322-9944. 

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