Road To Reform Begins With The Supt.’s Contract - It Is No More Complicated Than That; The Issue Is Not Ideology, Rather It Is Performance And If The Incumbents Win May 14, There Will Be No Relevant Reform Or Genuine Accountability
The “Alpha and Omega” of public school reform in Katy I.S.D. in particular and public education in general begins with effectively dealing with contract of the superintendent of schools. This column, slightly edited, is republished for your attention. Are you satisfied (do you believe) that the Katy I.S.D. School Board held or currently holds Linda Woodward, Hugh Hayes, Leonard Merrell...
School Board Members’ Willingness To Muzzle Themselves At The Board Table Is All The Proof Community Should Need To Know That Superintendent Frailey Is Also The Conductor In Chief Of The Center of Truth; It’s Past Time To Bring His Authority Back To Rational Levels; It Starts In Board Room
Alton Frailey is not only the Commander in Chief of the Katy I.S.D. School Board’s Center of Truth, thanks to the willingness of individual members of the that board Frailey is also the Conductor in Chief. And, armed with HB 400 that will likely pass the Texas Legislature, Conductor and Commander Frailey will be given even more power to exercise his will over this school district. Before finishing...
Let’s Stop Conducting School Board Meetings Like Sessions Of The Old Soviet Union’s Politburo; New School Board Members Need To Fight Hard From Their First Full Meeting To Open The Process To Public, Outside Experts
If there is one word that can describe a superintendent of schools and an acquiescent school board, that word would be “control.” There simply is no more eloquent picture of this fact than the administrative and board forces that have been brought to bear in Katy I.S.D. to control the scope and nature of the information that is presented, discussed, “questioned”, and approved...
A Note To You Great Posters Over At Instant News Katy - JW2, Westside Bill, Lisalou, Ciri93, Ktmom2009, And Others: Please Don’t Let This Opportunity Slip Away If Elections Go Well And Incumbents Are Ousted; Plan Is Vital
Your posts over on Instant News Katy are uniformly excellent about the state of affairs at Katy I.S.D. The fact is that some of you have said nice things about me and some of you have not. Regardless of what you think of me, it is clear that you folks have keen insight into what’s going on inside the bureaucracy of Katy I.S.D. From my perspective, there is at long last an opportunity to change...
The Modern Day Contract That School Districts Have With Superintendents Is A Giant Roadblock To Local Reform; If We Get New Board Members In May, One Will Need To Emerge As Key Leader On This Issue - Here’s The Path To Follow
The steps that I am going to outline over the next week are very practical steps that must be pursued to return the balance of power in this district to the citizens. Let’s start with a very fundamental issue and call it the first ’nut that has to be cracked.’ This particular effort will require (initially) the solo leadership of one member of the newly constituted board (if...
Texas Republican Party (Right Down To Local Precinct Chairs) Needs To Look Into The Mirror And Decide If It Really Wants To Empower The Bureaucracy That Made This Mess To Fix This Mess Because That’s What You Are About To Do
The Texas Republican Party is about to make the biggest mistake it has ever made, and that is saying a lot given the tragic mistakes that it made under Governor George Bush and President George Bush. In the name of reform and local control, the Texas Republican Party is about to make sweeping changes through HB400 that will give dramatic new powers to the very bureaucracy that constitutes the actual...
TEA Confirms That “2/3 Approval” Margin Of House Bill 400 Would Allow School Districts Sweeping New Authority For Upcoming 2011-12 Budget Year Including Changes In Classroom Teacher Wage Scales & Classroom Ratios
Classroom teachers who expect to automatically receive a salary at least equal to last year’s pay rate based on current state law should know that passage of House Bill 400 by a 2/3 vote margin in the heavily controlled Republican House and Senate of the Texas Legislature is a total game changer. There are no provisions in the bill that would change the rules regarding the pay schedules...
It’s Clear Now For All To See: This District Is Managed By A “Gang Of Trustees” Each Of Whom Have Empowered Unbelievable Behavior
Read Heartbroken. The teacher’s insight is not about her/his job or anyone’s job - not really. It’s about dignity - those who have it and those who don’t. This Board needs to go. Dr. Bill Proctor, Henry Dibrell, and Terry Huckaby. They need to go on the board - tomorrow if it were possible. I had no intention of getting involved in this race. But, when my worst nightmares...
“Heartbroken Teacher” Gives Insight Into The Hideous Behavior And Philosophical Ethics Of The Center of Truth and Human Resources - Just Wait Until This Gang Gets HB400
George, I have been a teacher in Katy ISD for over 10 years. Each year, I’ve learned more and more about how things operate at the ESC. I must say that I get more disgusted with the upper administration in Katy ISD the longer I’m in Katy ISD. I actually love my job and the people I work with. The morale at our school is pretty good along with the Asst. principals and principal. I have no complaints...
Questions For The Center Of Truth And Its Sycophant School Board Members; Decision Time For Community & Classroom Teachers - How Much Longer Are You Going To Tolerate This Abuse? When Is Enough Enough?
For those of us who have have spent more than the last decade warning this community about the growing detachment of the public education bureaucracy from its citizens, we now pose a question for you to answer. When is enough finally going to be enough? Over at InstantNewsKaty, there are a growing list of anonymous bloggers who are now beginning to speak. It is clear that some of them have actual...