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Michael Williams speaks to Community Impact Newspaper in August.[/caption]
Michael Williams, Texas Education Agency Commissioner of Education, has announced his intention to step down effective Jan. 1.
In his resignation letter to Gov. Greg Abbott, Williams said after 16 years of holding Austin-based positions—first as a member of the Texas Railroad Commission and then as Commissioner of Education—he no longer wants to commute to his home in Arlington where his wife lives.
The Frisco ISD board of trustees in November passed a resolution requesting that future education commissioners have at least a master’s degree in education and extensive experience in education leadership.
The qualifications, the resolution states, are equal to the qualifications required of other state-level commissioners.
