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Margaret McGettrick is the Director of Education with the Texas Catholic Conference Education Department serving eighty thousand students in two hundred and seventy two Catholic schools in Texas. In this role she is responsible for the coordination and supervision of programmatic activities required by the Texas Catholic Accreditation Commission. Mrs. McGettrick works with other federal and state education and accreditation agencies which include the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and the Texas Private School Acreditation Commission (TEPSAC). She maintains current knowledge of changes in federal and state programs, statutes and regulations that affect Catholic schools as well as providing assistance and support to the superintendents who serve the fifteen dioceses in Texas. In addition, Mrs. McGettrick assists with the public policy efforts related to education with particular emphasis on school choice.

Prior to this position Mrs. McGettrick served as the Superintendent of Schools for the Diocese of Austin for four years and as a teacher and principal in Corpus Christi for twenty seven years. In her capacity as principal during the 1980s and 1990s she was instrumental in promoting and implementing the Yearly Educational Calendar as well as gender separate education. She graduated from St. Mary’s College in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she taught for two years before immigrating to Texas where she earned a Masters Degree in School Administration.