The Dallas Independent School District has withdrawn its proposed termination action against Sherri Brokaw, the Administrator of the Pcard program that has received much attention by the media in the past year. After a $1 million “investigation” and five days of hearings, the Judicial Council appointed by Michael Hinojosa, has yet to render a decision on the DISD request to terminate Ms. Brokaw’s contract with DISD. Ms. Brokaw’s contract with DISD expired on August 31, 2007.

The District withdrew its proposed termination of Ms. Brokaw’s contract on the last day of its existence. Still pending before the DISD Judicial Council is Ms. Brokaw’s request that her good name be cleared amid false allegations made by DISD spokesman Celso Martinez in the Dallas Morning News that Ms. Brokaw was incompetent in her job.

Also still pending is Ms. Brokaw’s federal civil rights lawsuit against DISD, Dr. Hinojosa, Martinez, and others, relating to charges that Ms. Brokaw was made the scapegoat for the failed Pcard program, which was suspended by Hinojosa when it came to light that several DISD employees fraudulently abused the use of credit cards issued by the District.

Ms. Brokaw intends to vigorously pursue her yearlong efforts to clear her name and to recover damages against Hinojosa and DISD for smearing her name and reputation in the public eye, all in an effort to cover up high level administration officials’ failures in relation to the Pcard program. A DISD official has admitted that Ms. Brokaw was not incompetent in the performance of her duties as Director of Financial Control at DISD.