{"id":320944,"date":"2026-06-03T13:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/320944\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T13:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:53:07","slug":"wylie-isd-principal-resigns-after-months-of-controversy-over-islamic-event-at-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/320944\/","title":{"rendered":"Wylie ISD principal resigns after months of controversy over Islamic event at high school"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Wylie ISD principal has resigned after receiving months of backlash over a campus visit from a group that provided informational material on Islam.<\/p>\n

The district said Wylie East High school principal Tiffany Doolan informed them of her resignation on May 26. In February a group called Why Islam provided copies of the Quran, informational pamphlets and henna to students and allowed them to try on hijabs during lunch.<\/p>\n

Wylie ISD told the Dallas Morning News<\/a> at the time a student club had invited the organization but did not follow district protocols.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the beginning, the district acknowledged that the situation should never have occurred and that serious mistakes were made,\u201d Wylie ISD said in a news release.<\/p>\n

Since the organization\u2019s visit, Doolan has been the target of online and public harassment, the district said, including vulgar and threatening phone calls and emails. Photos of Doolan wearing a hijab during past World Hijab Day activities on campus, were circulated online by a right-wing account and \u201cweaponized \u2026 without important context.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe activities depicted in those photos were student-led and occurred before the implementation of Senate Bill 12, which took effect in September 2025 and significantly changed how student organizations may operate in public schools,\u201d the district said.<\/p>\n

Wylie ISD acknowledged the Feb. 2 event was a \u201cprocedural mistake\u201d but said it should not have led to the months of harassment Doolan and the district received. \u201cHolding people accountable and tearing them down are not the same thing,\u201d the district\u2019s news release said.<\/p>\n

Anti-Muslim rhetoric has been on the rise in Texas. Fort Worth ISD last week announced it was reassigning a Muslim principal after a right-wing social media account circulated the district\u2019s announcement of her hire, which included a photo of her wearing a hijab, and shared screenshots from her personal social media profiles in which she showed support for immigrants, Palestinians and Dreamers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt didn\u2019t happen in a vacuum,\u201d Mustafaa Carroll, executive director of the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said at a news conference calling for Shayma Alzubi\u2019s reinstatement<\/a>. \u201cIn recent months, Texas Muslims have been targeted by a vicious campaign of hate by some political leaders in the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doolan had worked in Wylie ISD since 2007 and served as principal of Wylie East for the past six years. The district told KERA News Doolan will not issue any statements beyond a letter she wrote to Wylie East families announcing her departure.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know schools are not perfect because people are not perfect, and I certainly am not,\u201d Doolan wrote. \u201cBut I hope you know this \u2013 every decision I have ever made was rooted in care for students and in what I believed was best for kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

Avery Escamilla-Wendell is KERA\u2019s news intern. Got a tip? Email Avery at\u00a0aescamillawendell@kera.org. You can follow her on Instagram @by_avery_escamilla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Wylie ISD principal has resigned after receiving months of backlash over a campus visit from a group…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-320944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}