Education Deputy Fired After Dui Charge Settled Fox’s Campaign Manager Guilty Of Inattentive Driving

Chief Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction Terry Haws was fired Friday, two days after public disclosure that he had settled a drunken driving charge.

State schools superintendent Anne Fox’s office issued a statement saying she would have no further comment, citing the confidentiality of personnel matters.

Haws was Fox’s campaign manager during the 1994 election.

Deputy Superintendent Darrell Loosle, a holdover from the administration of retired Superintendent Jerry Evans, will be Fox’s interim chief deputy.

Haws pleaded guilty to inattentive driving on Jan. 11 after prosecutors in Boise agreed to drop one count of drunken driving for an October 1994 traffic stop. He received a withheld judgment, meaning the conviction can be erased from his record if he successfully completes probation.

Haws refused to take a bloodalcohol test the day he was stopped, and Assistant City Attorney Kevin Borger said he did not perform well in field sobriety tests.

Refusing to take the blood-alcohol test resulted in his driver’s license being suspended for 180 days. He also was sentenced to two days in jail, one year on probation and about $350 in fines and court costs.

KTVB-TV in Boise also reported Friday that Haws was accused more than a decade ago of soliciting sex from a minor in Alaska in exchange for drugs. He pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, KTVB reported, and was sentenced to a suspended 60-day jail term, $350 fine and three years of probation.

Last year he ran Fox’s Republican campaign that focused on a platform that included conservative stands on sexual issues and called for restoring discipline and a “new patriotism” to Idaho’s public schools.

Haws was the man Fox directed last week to comb records for local calls from Education Department telephones to find out who was leaking information about her administration to newspapers and legislators.

Haws, a Boise native with a doctoral degree from a now-defunct Beverly Hills, Calif., independent study program, has been an adjunct professor at Gonzaga University in Spokane and for three years was principal of Nampa’s Alternative High School.

He previously was an organist, choir major and principal in western Washington, assistant principal in Denver and a music teacher at an Alaska Community College.