The voluntary retirement was agreed to by the Carroll ISD board of trustees Tuesday. The district will immediately begin searching for his replacement.
SOUTHLAKE, Texas — Carroll ISD’s Superintendent Lane Ledbetter is retiring in August, the district announced.
Cam Bryan, president of the Carroll ISD Board of Trustees announced Ledbetter’s retirement in a statement Friday, April 26. Trustees later approved Ledbetter’s voluntary retirement agreement unanimously at a meeting Tuesday.
Ledbetter will continue working in-person at the district through August, then utilize three months of earned time off remaining on the district’s payroll through December, Bryan announced. The district hopes to find a replacement by the start of next school year.
Ledbetter was hired to lead the district in December 2020 while it was embroiled in a controversy over a planned, and later scraped , diversity and equity plan prompted by a 2018 video of Southlake teens saying the N-word. The equity plan led to a campaign by conservative group Southlake Families PAC to fund and elect conservative board members. Since then, the district has become the subject of eight federal civil rights investigations.
He told trustees Tuesday that he will help the district find a replacement that is “aligned and engaged” with what is happening at the district.
“This district has done so much for me and my family,” Ledbetter told trustees Tuesday. “I will cherish that and will certainly be Carroll ISD’s biggest fan moving forward.”
Ledbetter graduated from Carroll High School in 1989. His father Bob Ledbetter was a renowned football coach and athletic director at Carroll ISD who was later inducted into the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame. Lane Ledbetter also worked as a coach and teacher at Carroll ISD before going on to serve as a superintendent in Graham and Midlothian ISDs.
“We know that your leadership is going to be hard to replace but we are committed to this community and to finding someone that is right for this community, that is right for this district,” Cam Bryan, president of the Carroll ISD Board of Trustees said at the meeting.