Court Opinion

ID: 9734645
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 17:40:50.655399+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:49.849586
License: Public Domain

BOB PEMBERTON, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the Court’s judgment, but I would affirm the district court’s order solely on the basis that, as matter of statutory construction, Lowery’s particular claim here does not fall within the exhaustion-of-remedies requirement under the education code. AISD does not explain how Lowery’s claim falls within the education code’s current exhaustion requirement. Nor does it point to any other statutory basis for requiring Lowery to exhaust whatever administrative remedies AISD provides under its policies or rules in addition to *835exhausting her remedies under the TCHRA. We need go no further in overruling AISD’s first issue.
The majority, in my view, sweeps unnecessarily broadly in suggesting that a school employee’s TCHRA claim could never be subject to the education code’s exhaustion requirements and how, in such an instance, those statutory schemes should be reconciled.
I otherwise join in the majority’s opinion affirming the district comb’s order.