UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The most important of the Texas faculty the place the country’s deadliest lecture room taking pictures in a decade came about used to be reinstated Thursday, 3 days after she used to be suspended with pay within the wake of safety criticisms leveled by way of a legislative committee.
Mandy Gutierrez, who Uvalde faculty district officers suspended with pay Monday as Robb Basic Faculty most important, used to be reinstated Thursday in a temporary letter from Superintendent Hal Harrell.
The reinstatement got here after Gutierrez, in a letter to the committee contributors, disputed the important thing findings {that a} “tradition of complacency” had evolved on the faculty that allowed a gunman to go into the varsity and kill 19 youngsters and two academics. She additionally mentioned the lock at the door to the fourth-grade lecture room the place the Would possibly 24 taking pictures came about labored when a custodian checked it the night time ahead of.
Harrell suspended Gutierrez with pay on Monday pending a efficiency evaluation pertaining to college safety. On the other hand, in his Thursday letter, Harrell mentioned she could be allowed to go back to paintings instantly “and can proceed to serve the district in an administrative capability.”
