HEMPSTEAD SCHOOL SUPT. INDICTED

  

Hempstead ISD Supt. Delma Flores Smith must turn herself in to the Waller County jail today after a grand jury indicted her late Wednesday for tampering with government records.

Court records show the documents included her resume.  Someone questioned her credential.  She answered that some information was indeed different.

The charge is a class A misdemeanor.  The Hempstead School Board has placed Flores Smith on paid administrative leave.

The superintendent’s tenure has been a stormy one, and there have been other investigations.

Waller County District Attorney Elton Mathis said in March that he had investigated a complaint from County Constable Herschel Smith concerning a plumbing contract with a Chappell Hill company.  Constable Smith charged that S & D Plumbing had received $153,000 in  for from the school district in the past seven years.  Supt. Flores Smith referred this case to the District Attorney’s office.  Mathis conducted the investigation and found no illegal activity.

The Hempstead School Board voted not to renew the contract of Hempstead Middle School Principal Amy Lacey after she reportedly announced on the intercom that students were not to speak Spanish on the school’s campus.