Allegra Mora
Introduction
Allegra Fey Mora is a 28-year-old former teacher at Muleshoe High School in Muleshoe, Texas, whose June 2026 arrest became the second case charged under the U.S. Attorney’s newly launched Project Safe Schools initiative. On September 9, 2026, a federal grand jury in Lubbock indicted Mora on one count of enticement of a minor for allegedly having sexual relations with one of her students.
If convicted, Mora faces a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years and up to life in federal prison, while the state charge of improper relationship between educator and student carries a maximum of 20 years. Her June arrest was announced by Muleshoe ISD on June 5, 2026, when Superintendent Scott Bicknell said she was no longer employed by the district.
Background Information
Mora began working for Muleshoe ISD during the 2023-24 school year. The district operates four schools serving a little over 1,000 students and sits about 20 miles from the New Mexico border. Before Muleshoe, she taught at Hereford ISD, and she had held a Texas teaching certificate in English Language Arts and Reading since 2021 — a credential now under review by the Texas Education Agency.
Her federal prosecution falls under Project Safe Schools, an initiative aimed at protecting students, enforcing accountability and restoring transparency in public schools across North Texas. It directly targets failures in mandatory reporting of educator misconduct and combats “passing the trash,” the practice of educators with known misconduct issues moving between schools without disclosure of their prior wrongdoing.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Allegations. The claims in this section are allegations from a federal grand jury indictment and a Texas Rangers investigation, which reported substantiating them. They were never admitted by Mora, never criminally adjudicated in court, and she is presumed innocent unless and until convicted. No guilty plea has been reported.
According to the indictment, from October 2025 to May 2026, Mora allegedly knowingly used a facility and means of interstate and foreign commerce, including a cellular telephone, to persuade, induce, entice and coerce a minor to engage in sexual activity. The Texas Rangers opened their inquiry in June 2026 after receiving a report concerning possible inappropriate sexual conduct between Mora and a 17-year-old Muleshoe High School student during the 2025-26 school year.
During the investigation, law enforcement conducted interviews, collected electronic evidence and executed search warrants; the U.S. Attorney’s Office said evidence reviewed by investigators corroborates the alleged explicit communications and conduct underlying the federal charge. The Rangers worked with forensic assistance from Homeland Security Investigations-Dallas, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Callie Woolam of the Lubbock Division is prosecuting the case.
State authorities arrested Mora in June 2026, and she was released pending further state proceedings. The state charged her with improper relationship between educator and student, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Superintendent Scott Bicknell announced June 5 that the district had been notified of her arrest and that she was no longer employed, writing, “Please be assured that the District takes its responsibility for student and child safety extremely seriously,” and encouraging anyone with concerns about suspected improper conduct between a district employee and a student or minor to immediately contact school administration and law enforcement.
The federal indictment followed on September 9, 2026, charging the single count of enticement of a minor that now runs alongside the state case.
Public Reaction and Consequences
U.S. Attorney Ryan Raybould declared, “The full force of my office will be brought to bear on teachers, administrators, and school districts who perpetuate a cycle of abuse in our schools,” adding, “No one who abuses a position of authority over a child in the Northern District of Texas will escape scrutiny. As I said before, Project Safe Schools is here to stay.” He urged teachers, administrators and districts to report any past abuse to his office, warning that the consequences would be more severe if his office found out on its own.
“Protecting children from exploitation is among HSI’s highest priorities, especially when allegations involve an abuse of trust by someone in a position of authority,” said HSI Dallas Deputy Special Agent in Charge Antwoine Jones. “Every child deserves to be safe from exploitation, including in the places where they should feel most protected.”
In Muleshoe, the district’s public response remained Bicknell’s June statement reassuring parents about student and child safety. The case also surfaced amid wider alarm in Texas: the Texas Education Agency is currently investigating more than 2,700 sexual misconduct complaints and opens an average of 250 new cases each month.
Current Status
Mora was released pending further state proceedings and now faces parallel prosecutions in state and federal court. The federal count carries a mandatory minimum of ten years and up to life in prison; the state charge carries up to 20 years. No trial date in either proceeding has been reported. As KCBD noted, “An indictment is an allegation, and the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty”.
Impact on Their Career/Life
A teaching career spanning two West Texas districts is effectively over: Mora has not worked in Muleshoe ISD since the district announced her departure in June 2026, and the charges against her carry the prospect of decades in prison — a mandatory minimum of ten years on the federal count alone, with up to life, plus a state case with a 20-year maximum. Her case has become an early example of the Project Safe Schools strategy of layering federal enticement charges on top of state educator-misconduct prosecutions.
For Muleshoe ISD, a four-school district of a little over 1,000 students near the New Mexico border, the episode has tested Bicknell’s pledge that the district takes its responsibility for student and child safety “extremely seriously”.