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Hello readers, we are approaching our five year anniversary of reporting on major events in SBISD. As promised, we only contact you when there is an actionable step you can take to prevent harm to Spring Branch ISD. With another school board election approaching next week, we write to update you on a pressing threat to the well-being of SBISD: Sally Cone, wife of the notorious Matt Cone, is seeking election to the SBISD Board of Trustees. For two years, the Cone family has

Last Thursday, April 2nd, the Council of PTA’s held its annual forum for candidates seeking election to the SBISD Board of Trustees. Ted Tredennick, running for the open Position Two seat, distinguished himself from his opponents with his sincere and thoughtful responses to audience questions. Throughout the one-hour forum, Mr. Tredennick reached out to the broad Spring Branch community, noting that whether voters have children in SBISD or not, they have a vested interest in

Earlier today, in the matter of Elizondo vs. SBISD, the US District Court ruled in favor of the Plaintiff, Virginia Elizondo, finding...

Civil court records from multiple jurisdictions in southeast Texas show that Matt Cone stole nearly $150,000 worth of diesel fuel delivered to him by at least three distinct fuel suppliers from Summer 2011 through Fall of 2013. Over that time, Mr. Cone established a pattern of behavior whereby: He would open an account with a supplier of diesel fuel, then He would have as much diesel fuel as possible delivered to him in a 10 to 60 day window, before invoices came due, then He

Yesterday, we updated you on the 2016 permanent injunction EE systems was awarded by a Judge against Matt Cone for his breach of fiduciary duty as an employee of EE Systems. Today, we fast forward 3 years to the second lawsuit EE Systems filed against its “former disgruntled employee” Matt Cone, this time for tortious interference with their business dealings. The Judge’s 2016 injunction against Matt Cone prevented him from engaging in business activity in thirty-one counties

Matthew T. Cone breached his fiduciary duty of loyalty to his employer in 2016 and was restrained and enjoined by the court for doing so, court filings show. These actions by Mr. Cone constitute another disqualifying set of behaviors for a potential member of the SBISD Board of Trustees. Earlier this month, Save SBISD uncovered unseemly financial practices by Mr. Cone in 2021, wherein he defrauded a lender by selling heavy equipment to a third party that he had pledged as col

Good afternoon readers! This update is the second half of the story in Allegiance Bank v. Matthew Cone, the first of our series of updates on this list of nineteen civil actions brought against SBISD Trustee Candidate Matthew T. Cone. On Monday, we updated you on Mr. Cone's recent defrauding of Allegiance Bank, wherein he sold 50 tons of heavy construction equipment out from under their security agreements protecting loans totaling $657,005. Mr. Cone made a public statement s

Save SBISD has just completed its first review of a lawsuit on this list of civil actions taken against Matthew Cone. The first case we examined was Allegiance Bank v. MCSC Holdings, LLC, Matthew T. Cone, et. al. This is the first of two updates we will be posting on this particular legal action; there is too much to cover in one post. In 2019, Mr. Cone and his affiliated entities sold 5 pieces of heavy equipment, which Mr. Cone had pledged to Allegiance Bank as collateral,

Since our Tuesday night update, Save SBISD has surfaced nineteen (19) lawsuits involving Matthew T. Cone and/or his related entities...

On Friday, March 29th, Matt Cone, candidate for SBISD school board, took to Twitter and called for “transparency” and “accountability” in...

Spring Branch Families Political Action Committee was founded in April, 2022 by Tom Stokes, Mary Chamberlain, and Kristin Anderson “to...

Good morning, readers; we hope this update finds you well. As you may recall, Elizondo vs. SBISD is stuck in limbo as we await the United...

Earlier today, attorneys for Virginia Elizondo and SBISD filed their first Joint Status Report on the continuing matter of Elizondo vs....

It has been a while, so please allow us to reintroduce ourselves. We are Save SBISD, a group of stakeholders who live, work, teach, own...

Courtney Anderson has reiterated statements she made during her recent campaign supporting at-large elections for SBISD Trustees. In...

Courtney Anderson and Shannon Mahan were elected to the SBISD Board of Trustees yesterday evening. Courtney Anderson received 7,081...

Editors Note: We have been contacted by a representative of Spring Branch Independent School District and asked to share this information...

This update is the first of a multi-part series focusing on the controversies surrounding instructional materials used in SBISD. In the...

Yesterday, February 13, 2023, a US Magistrate Judge recommended that SBISD's motion for summary judgement be denied in the matter of...

Last Friday, October 21, new SBISD Board of Trustees President Chris Earnest published a letter to SBISD parents, staff and the community...