Breaux Elected to State Association Board

For release: October 8, 2021
Contact: Denise Schulz, 512.340.2948, denise.schulz@tasb.org
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(Austin) — Darlene Breaux of Alief ISD has been elected to a two-year term on the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Board of Directors, representing TASB Region 4, Position B. The election was held during the Association’s 2021 Delegate Assembly on September 25 in Dallas.

Breaux was elected to the Alief ISD Board of Trustees in 2017. Currently, she serves as board vice-president and chair of the Policy Committee.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Texas Southern University, a master’s degree in educational leadership from the University of Houston–Clear Lake, and a doctorate in organizational leadership from Abilene Christian University. 

Breaux has held a variety of roles in education: teacher, reading specialist, dyslexia and intervention coordinator, campus principal, and director of special populations. Since 2016, she has served as director of the Research and Evaluation Institute at the Harris County Department of Education.

She is a current board member of Houston reVision and a life member of the Houston Area Alliance of Black School Educators. She is an active member of the American Education Research Association, International Dyslexia Association, Texas Council of Women School Executives, and Texas Caucus of Black School Board Members. Breaux also served for more than eight years on the Alief YMCA Board.

TASB is a nonprofit association established in 1949 to serve local Texas school boards. School board members are the largest group of publicly elected officials in the state. The districts they represent serve more than 5.4 million public school students.