At their regular meeting, Birdville ISD’s Board of Trustees approved the administrative transfer of Michael Gerard as chancellor of BISD’s new early college high school. The early college high school will be located inside Haltom High School and will open fall 2019.

He has been an assistant principal at Richland High School since 2007. Prior to Richland (from1995–2007), he taught advanced placement, on-level and inclusion government, macroeconomics, U.S. history, world history and world geography. Gerard earned his bachelor’s degree from The University of Tennessee and master’s degree from The University of North Texas.