The news reporting of InstantNewsKaty.com has now prompted the Texas Attorney General to confirm my earlier comments that Judy Snyder and other members of the Katy I.S.D. School Board were not telling the complete truth when it said state law prohibited them from personally advocating on the district $459 million bond issue. What Happens When The Center of Truth Stops Telling The Truth As I read journalist...
I have quite number of individual projects underway now. Here’s a status report on the major ones. Columns on Katy I.S.D. Academics: It was my intent to publish another column in this series today. I encountered some technical problems associated with the formatting of particular tables that created a problem in uploading them by the 5:00 a.m. deadline I usually impose on weekday postings. ...
By JAMES YAKLIN - Harris County Republican PCT 547 Chair The English Bill of Rights of 1689 prohibited the imposition of taxes without the consent of Parliament. However, the Stamp Act of 1765 and the Tea Act passed in May of 1773 were examples of taxes that were passed by Parliament directly on the British Colonies in America. The problem with these taxes was not the amount of the tax, which...
I have had a total change of heart on my own personal ‘Road to Damascus” conversion to allowing most anonymous posts. If you are an idiot and you want to expose yourself to my blistering evaluation of your stupidity, you can post anonymously. Just understand that idiots will not get a free pass. This does not mean that I will allow all anonymous posters total free reign. However, I...
By any credible academic standard other than the Texas Education Agency’s accountability rating system, student performance at Houston I.S.D.’s Yates and Wheatley High Schools could accurately be described as tragically mediocre for the vast majority of students who attend school there. Both schools earned the TEA’s acceptable rating for 2008-09 and Houston I.S.D. gave over a combined...
My work of analyzing the capital improvement program and financing associated with Katy I.S.D.’s $459 million bond issue is ongoing. I will report my analysis prior to the bond election at a time when I am ready. In the meantime, I am going to focus upon the status of academic preparation of students in the district, which of course, should be an issue linked to any expenditure of money by...
What is a community supposed to do when its school district’s leadership declares itself the “Center of Truth” and then stops telling its citizens the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? It’s a serious decision this community will make in the near future when it decides whether to reward the “Center” with $459 million in a bond issue that many believe...
I strongly encourage every citizen to listen to every last second of Alton Frailey’s convocation speech of August 17 in which he Blistered school district critics as village idiots… Implicitly scolded employees for their low participation in local elections… Threatened teachers with loss of salaries and jobs if the impending bond issue was defeated… Warned teachers that...
Katy I.S.D. has now provided extensive additional documentation on Alton Frailey’s ‘voter registration initiative’ that he addressed in his August 17 remarks before classroom teachers and other employees when he let them know that the district was monitoring their voter registration status. The district’s second response came after George Scott Reports announced it would file...
George Scott Reports will be presenting new information tomorrow that it obtained late Friday regarding the voter registration initiative and Katy I.S.D. Supt. Alton Frailey’s speech to classroom teachers and other employees on August 17 at which he advised them all that the district was monitoring their voter registration status. As a result of his speech, my attorney Larry Watts and I both...
