President's Message
I am so excited to welcome you to the Texas Association for Alternative Education Website.
Membership
Want to Join? Want to renew your membership? Want to find out about TAAE membership benefits? All that can be found here.
Taylor Marceau Scholarship
The Taylor Marceau TAAE Scholarship is open to any student graduating from a Texas Alternative Education program each school year who wishes to attend college or vocational school.
Since 1993
Who Is …
Texas Association for Alternative Education - (TAAE)
TAAE is a statewide association for the administrators and teacher professionals involved in alternative education. Alternative education in public schools, charter schools, schools of choice, juvenile justice, disciplinary settings, school within a school which strive to keep and graduate kids in Texas who are not in main stream teaching facilities. Our Texas alternative teachers are advocates for the kids in need and targeted by Texas Education Agency as candidates for "No Child Left Behind" concerns.
Meet the Board
The TAAE Board is a group of Educators who work in alternative education and represent all alternative educators for the TAAE.
President
Dr. Lisa Rogers
Groesbeck High School
President-Elect
Charles Etheridge
Crossroads High School
Vice-President
Tara Sanchez
Secretary
Dwana Finster
Hope High School
Treasurer
Amanda Godfrey
The Mary Catherine Harris High School
Membership Liaison
Dr. Kim Garner-Simmons
Knippel Education Center
Past President
John Schaefer
Executive Director
Stan Reed