Tamez serves as the District 3 trustee and went to the University of Texas for her doctorate degree, according to the HCC website. She's also the superintendent for the Raul Yzaguirre Schools for Success.
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"I accept responsibility for an unintentional mistake I made regarding the lack of proper attribution of sources that I used with permission, and their omission from the reference section of my dissertation, which I completed more than 7 years ago," Tamez said Thursday night in a statement to ABC13.
The board found the "scientific misconduct" happened when portions of her dissertation included very similar pieces to other published material.
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Tamez added she appreciated the "opportunity to make this correction."
Attempts to view Tamez's dissertation on UT's website yield a "file restricted" error.
A cached version shows the dissertation was titled: "Latina Superintendents: A phenomenological study of superintendent-board relations."
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