Galveston Superintendent Larry Nichols’ Hero Must Be ‘Elmer Gantry’; His ‘Stunt’ On TAKS & The Chronicle’s Wickedly Incompetent Education Reporting Give False Picture

To defend the indefensible, Galveston I.S.D. Supt. Larry Nichols has resorted to trotting out ‘cherry picked’ questions on the 11th grade math and science TAKS’ tests to give to old farts in his community’s civic organizations proof of the academic integrity of the state’s accountability system and curriculum. In his previous life, Nichols could probably have been the...