WACO (May 13, 2010)–The Waco ISD school board decided unanimously Wednesday that superintendent Dr. Roland Hernandez would finish his contract as planned, without any changes.
Fernando Campos has been in the McLennan County Jail since his March 22 arrest on warrants charging continuous sexual abuse of a child, and improper relationship between educator and student in connection with alleged incidents involving a student.
In April, he was charged with indecency with a child in an incident involving a second student at the school, where he worked as a bilingual pre-kindergarten and kindergarten teacher.
Campos was charged Wednesday with indecency with a child by contact in an incident involving a third young student at the school.
The board met behind closed doors for more than two hours Wednesday night to evaluate, among other things, the superintendent’s handling of Alta Vista Montessori kindergarten teacher Fernando Campos, who was arrested on March 22 and charged with sexually abusing a young student.
At the time of Campo’s arrest, the district said it received a complaint from the victim's mother in December, investigated Campos and cleared him to return to the classroom.
Campos remains in the McLennan County Jail on multiple counts of indecency with a child, sexual abuse of a child and sexual misconduct.
The board emerged nearly three hours later and voted to take no action on Hernandez’s contract, which lasts through 2012.
The superintendent’s annual evaluation, typically scheduled in June, came a few weeks early after the board decided in a March special meeting to move it up in the wake of the Campos investigation.
In the previous two years, Hernandez has received either a performance-based bonus or a combination bonus and raise.
Hernandez’s annual base salary is $174,000.
