Austin-area school board president abruptly resigns and leaves meeting

Rebecca Birch announced from the dais she was stepping down as Del Valle ISD school board president, effective immediately, at a meeting on Tuesday.

Pantoja declined to comment on Birch's remarks and referred KUT to the district. Del Valle ISD has not yet responded to a request for comment. “Mr. Pantoja immediately and automatically ceased holding office in Del Valle ISD when he swore his primary residence was now in Austin ISD,” the emailed statement said.“I completed paperwork that is being used by opponents on the Board to claim I vacated the Single Member District 2 seat on the Del Valle ISD School Board of Trustees," he wrote."That was never my intent, but my error has given my opponents the opportunity to have me removed.

“Some of them believe that their voice was missing, now they have their voice on the dais,” he told KUT on Tuesday before the board meeting.on Jan. 8. But, at that meeting, he did not get enough votes to rejoin the board. Neither did the only other applicant, David Albert, who lost to Pantoja in the

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