{"id":205725,"date":"2012-08-09T12:36:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T17:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=205725"},"modified":"2012-08-10T12:18:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T17:18:59","slug":"tea-union-grove-coach-being-investigated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=205725","title":{"rendered":"TEA: Union Grove Coach Being Investigated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=205746\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-205746\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/08\/Steven-Mulkey1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Steven Mulkey\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-205746\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN \u2014 Texas Education Agency officials said Wednesday there is an open investigation against a Union Grove ISD assistant coach and teacher. That\u2019s according to KETK and the Longview News-Journal. The state is investigating Steven Mulkey, said Debbie Graves Ratcliffe, director of communications for the TEA. Ratcliffe said there is a note on Mulkey\u2019s certification that notes he is under review by the State Board of Educator Certification\u2019s professional discipline unit. Ratcliffe would not comment on why Mulkey is being investigated. She said the length of an investigation by the Texas Education Agency varies, but it is typically quicker if law enforcement agencies are involved. She could not say whether law enforcement agencies are assisting with Mulkey\u2019s case.<\/p>\n<p>Union Grove ISD placed Mulkey on paid administrative leave \u201cpending further review\u201d in late July. Superintendent Brian Gray said Wednesday the district does not intend to hire anyone to fill Mulkey\u2019s position. Mulkey was hired earlier this year to coach and teach history this fall semester, Gray said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN \u2014 Texas Education Agency officials said Wednesday there is an open investigation against a Union Grove ISD assistant coach and teacher. That\u2019s according to KETK and the Longview News-Journal. The state is investigating Steven Mulkey, said Debbie Graves Ratcliffe, director of communications for the TEA. Ratcliffe said there is a note on Mulkey\u2019s certification &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=205725\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TEA: Union Grove Coach Being Investigated<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 07:31:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205725"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205940,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205725\/revisions\/205940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}