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A military spouse in Texas has won her fight in federal court to force Texas education officials to accept her out-of-state school counseling license — as federal law now requires.
“This is a victory for all military spouses,” said Hannah Magee Portée, of Del Rio, Texas. “I hope it makes other spouses’ lives easier, and I hope they don’t have to go through what I did just to be able to work.”
Judge Robert Pitman ruled that Texas Commissioner of Education Mike Morath, Texas Education Agency and the State Board for Educator Certification violated the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, when they refused to accept her school counseling licenses from Ohio and Missouri earlier this year when she moved to Texas. She and her husband, Air Force Capt. David Portée, moved on military orders to Laughlin Air Force Base.