SMCISD Eads’ Delivers April Surprise

San Marcos CISD Superintendent, Mark Eads notified his Board of Trustee’s today by Twitter (no less) that he was the lone finalist at Southside CISD, located in south San Antonio.

In September 2015, Eads resigned as SMCISD’s Superintendent in an email to the trustee’s, below is an excerpt from his resignation letter;

I am so proud to have had the opportunity to be part of such a wonderful organization and to have developed relationships that will continue. My family and I love this area and we look forward to being active members of the District and community. I will be resigning from public education on January 31, 2016. May God continue to bless us all.

Rattler Proud,

Mark E. Eads

Corridor News has also verified that Southside CISD is in the middle of their own turmoil.

“Two current and two former Southside Independent School District employees sued the district last week in federal court in San Antonio, claiming that they were targeted for failing to politically support the majority faction of the district’s board of trustees,” in an article written by the San Antonio Express News…read more here.

Twitter, email, resignations, threat of lawsuits, open records requests that have made it all the way to the Texas Attorney General for Eads, Trustee’s Crowley, and Hansen’s personnel files, and some say the Millennials are the ones without business etiquette.

With the decision on Eads’ files still pending with the Texas AG, and now he has found another position in public education………….San Marcos, you were just handed your very own April Surprise.

SMCISD Resignation Timeline

• In August 2015, Assistant Superintendent Greg Rodriguez suddenly resigned while giving a weeks’ notice.
• Within a week of Asst. Superintendent Rodriguez leaving, Eads distributed his resignation to the Board of Trustee’s by email.
• In January 2016, Mark Eads agreed to stay on as Interim Superintendent.
• In January 2016 Corridor News reported, Adelaida “Lolly” Guerra, Ed.D., submitted her letter of resignation as Assistant Superintendent