Does The “Chamber of Truth” Really Care About The Quality of Public Education In Katy Or Is It Just Dedicated To Blindly Supporting The Center of Truth? It’s Time To Find Out!
Where does Alton Frailey and his Center of Truth operation turn to for support these days in the wake of a stunning electoral defeat that saw two incumbents butt-kicked off the school board? I am wondering if it is to his peers and fellow board members over at the Katy Area Chamber of Commerce to be known from this day forward as the “Chamber of Truth.” From the moment that the Chamber...
It’s Past Time For The Katy’s Chamber To Put Up Or Shut Up On The Scope Of Its Support For Public Education; Ann Hodge And Chamber Board Should Disclose All Communications With Legislators On Public School Finance Bills & Use Of Rainy Day Funds: How About Local Reserves?
Open Letter To Katy Area Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Anne Hodge Dear Mrs. Hodge: You personally as well as other high profile leaders of your Chamber organization have worked diligently for years to support the adoption of bond issues submitted to local voters by the Katy I.S.D. You personally have taken part in associated political activities to further that agenda. Other leaders and...
The Classroom Has Lost Its Stature As The Center Of Gravity Of Public Education And Has Been Replaced By Runaway Power Of The Superintendent; Reform Not Achievable Until The Status Of The Superintendent Is Restricted And The Classroom’s Standing Is Restored By Brave School Boards
Restoring the integrity of the core subject classroom is the last chance that reformers who understand the problems that afflict the institution have to save the public education system from its self-imposed academic death spiral. The essential theme of the meeting that I sponsored this past week was that the public education classroom used to be the ‘center of gravity’ of the system. ...
Where’s A Good Place To Start In Evaluating The Preparation Of High School Graduates?: The Colleges Or Universities They Attend And The Graduation Rates Of Those Institutions; Except For Actual Longitudinal Data, There’s No Perfect Answer, But Snapshots Help Provide Insight For Parents
Those wanting to understand the issues involved with the evaluation of the college readiness of a particular high school’s or district’s graduates should understand there is no single report produced by the State of Texas that gives them a definitive, across-the-board answer. It is as if the State of Texas does not want to give parents that answer. So, in typical fashion, Texas produces...
1967 Borders: Forgive This Distraction From Education
Why would a United States president endorse a plan that would lead to the extermination of the Jewish state as certainly as anything anyone could possible predict? As a young man, I encountered my first hero on a black and white television set - Abba Eban. His speech before the United Nations remains one of the greatest speeches in the history of humanity including both fictional literature and...
Advisory For This Weekend’s Columns: As GSR Moves Away From Election News, There Will Be New Columns That Again Address The Issue Of Our Grads’ Preparation & Performance In College; KISD Won’t Vigorously Pursue Available Data
There have been some interesting comments made by posters over at Instant News Katy wondering how Katy I.S.D. graduates perform at colleges and universities. One might think that the district itself would want to know the answers to such questions. The fact is that the district does not want to know the definitive answer to that question. To the degree my resources have allowed, I have researched...
Hope My News Release Sends Poster At Instant News Katy Over The Edge
For about the third time since I have been doing this website, I have published a news release on a matter involving George Scott Reports because I have sent the story to another medium. There’s this one anonymous poster over at Instant News Katy who dove off the deep end board into a pool with no water on the other two occasions I have done this because in news release form, I end up putting...
Attorneys Familiar With Public Education Bureaucracy & Law Will Join George Scott In Katy Meeting To Address Issues Important To Teachers, Taxpayers, & Supporters Of Reform Movement; Scheduled 6-8 At Spring Creek Meeting Room
NEWS RELEASE: Two attorneys with vast experience in the public education bureaucracy and law will join veteran accountability analyst George Scott in a free, two-hour meeting also featuring questions and answers on critical topics of law and reform Wednesday, May 25 in Katy.The meeting will be hosted by George Scott Reports. It is scheduled for 6-8:00 p.m. at Spring Creek BBQ Restaurant on the north...
From An Anonymous Post: Are you scared of pissing off these guys and gals? If so then maybe you should rethink your position… Reader Of GSR Thinks I Have Been Soft On KISD
Dear Readers, ‘…I don’t agree with your political philosophy and I don’t agree with the decisions you have made in public office. You must be a crook….’ This nonsense by a handful in this community needs to stop. It threatens the greatest opportunity we who seek reform of public education accountability in the community and this state have had in years. I am...
Republican Classroom Teacher Comments On Legislation Likely To Emerge From This Session Of The Texas Legislature; Also Gives Real Insight Into The Relationship Between Administrators And The Classroom
This column was submitted as a post to my column on bill that in some form is going to emerge from this session of the Texas Legislature. It is just too good a post to not make it a featured post. It was submitted by a person identified as classroom teacher XXXXX. Skip past the compliment to me (that’s not the reason this is going as a featured post) and get to the heart and soul of what...