Texas greenlighted a felon to train school board members. Now education officials are examining their rules.

Visitors attend a Keller ISD school board meeting in Keller on April 25, 2022. The Texas Education Agency is examining its rules to approve vendors who want to train new school board members after finding out that a recently approved provider is a felon. (Credit: Shelby Tauber for The Texas Tribune)

The Texas Education Agency is considering changing the way it vets vendors who train new school board members after finding out that a recently approved provider — who has pitched his training as a conservative alternative to “woke” programs — is a felon.

Earlier this fall, the TEA approved James Dunn and his organization, Angleton-based Gulf Coast Community Action Agency, to start training school board members as a registered provider. Dunn is Gulf Coast’s executive director.