After being targeted by a local pastor's discriminatory, anti-gay campaign , Deer Park ISD’s new Superintendent Tiffany Regan said Monday that she hopes families will focus on her vision for the district that she has loved since she was a child.
Regan told the Chronicle in an exclusive interview Monday that she is both excited and nervous to be confirmed as the southeast Harris County district’s next leader, following a month of highlights and low points that started when she was announced as the lone finalist in mid-March.
“It's been challenging and wonderful, really, all at the same time. You know, it's difficult when people you've never met or don't know your work make negative comments. But it's also wonderful to hear students you taught 30 years ago and people who you've grown up with make positive comments,” Regan said.
The 52-year-old assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction is a Deer Park ISD native, from attending school there as a child, graduating high school in 1991 to begging her advisers at the University of Houston-Clear Lake to place her in ...
