The Aledo Ledger Saturday, September 5, 2026

Aledo ISD Board Room, 1008 Bailey Ranch Road

Board hires Amber Crissey as assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction and Shana Smith as Vandagriff assistant principal

Each vote was 5-0 at an 8:30 a.m. special meeting.

The Aledo ISD Board of Trustees met in special session July 2, 2018, at 8:32 a.m. with President Hoyt Harris, Secretary Forrest Collins and Trustees Bobby J. Rigues, David Lear and Julie Turner present. After an executive session from 8:33 to 8:55 a.m. on the two candidates, the board approved the administration's recommendations to hire Shana Smith as assistant principal at Vandagriff Elementary and Amber Crissey as assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, each 5-0. The meeting adjourned at 8:59 a.m.

Sources: Aledo ISD: minutes of the July 2, 2018 meeting, as attached to the Aug. 20, 2018 agenda (BoardBook); Aledo ISD: agenda, July 2, 2018 (BoardBook); Aledo ISD meetings on BoardBook

How this was sourced: Primary documents: the minutes of the July 2, 2018 meeting as posted on BoardBook with the Aug. 20, 2018 agenda, and the meeting agenda. Every vote, number and name above appears in those documents; the Ledger did not review the meeting video. Students, employees who are not administrators, and public commenters are not named. Written Sept- 5- 2026, for the archive.

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Assistant superintendent, curriculum and instruction
Amber Crissey hired, 5-0
Vandagriff Elementary assistant principal
Shana Smith hired, 5-0

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