Dr. Jayme Mathias for Manor ISD Board of Trustees Place 5
For eight years, Dr. Mathias served on the Austin ISD Board of Trustees, where he helped oversee a $1.6 billion annual budget for the 86,000 students and 11,000 employees of Austin's 130 public schools. During those years, the district continually lowered the tax rate and passed over $1.5 billion in bonds to improve all schools. Dr. Mathias believes that, still under TEA oversight, the Manor ISD needs good “no fingerprints” governance: Trustees who are “nose in, but hands off.” Dr. Mathias currently serves as Executive Director of the Texas Latino School Boards Association, which has provided over 300 scholarships to the graduates of our Texas public schools, and he is a member of the Advisory Council of the College of Education at The University of Texas. Dr. Mathias advocated for our Texas public schools at the state level, was involved in the fight for Mexican American Studies, and served on the Board of Directors of the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB). He also advocated in D.C. and served the Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) of the National School Boards Association (NSBA). Dr. Mathias has published ten books on education, including the acclaimed Seats at the Table: School Board Members’ Perspectives on Race & Racism, for which he was invited to keynote the 2021 TASA/TASB conference. Ordained a Roman Catholic priest by Bishop Gregory Aymond in 2001, Dr. Mathias served as President of San Juan Diego Catholic High School for four years, grew Cristo Rey Catholic Church to be Austin’s largest Spanish-language congregation at that time, and has served since 2012 as Pastor of Holy Family Catholic Church, Austin’s only inclusive Catholic community. He has earned seven degrees, including four graduate degrees and his Doctor of Philosophy in Leadership Studies. His dissertation was a 500-page study of the leadership behaviors of Spanish-speaking adults in Central Texas. Dr. Mathias has been with his husband for over 11 years, they married in 2015, they built our home in the Manor ISD in 2022, and they look forward to continuing to support the Manor Education Foundation and other great organizations that put Manor kids first!