KISD Board Member Acting As If In Full Scale Organizational Hysteria; Launches Effort Of Intimidation; My Column Tomorrow Is Important As Reformers Reach Decision Point
I have written some 200 posts since beginning George Scott Reports in 2009. The column I post tomorrow will be the most of all of them. By this head’s up, I am encouraging you to be ready to both read and to help spread it. Finally, we have two board members in Dr. Bill Proctor and Terry Huckaby who have actually begun waging a battle of reform. Predictably, the efforts are under-appreciated...
The Process Of Selecting Superintendents Has Become Dysfunctional And Driven By ‘Insiders’; The System Itself Sabotages Any Genuine Business Or Academic Accountability For Students, Parents, Teachers, & Taxpayers
If local reformers lose the magic moment that is now before us to bring actual business and academic reform to Katy I.S.D. it will be because of a failure to address decisively the issues involved in selecting and evaluating the superintendent of schools. In Katy, we have a superintendent working under an existing contract. While that makes the immediate path of reform vastly more difficult, there...
Pre-Endorsement For Terri Majors In KISD Board Race
Dr. Bill Proctor and Terry Huckaby need at least two more pieces of the puzzle if their efforts to bring reform to the Katy I.S.D. and higher levels of accountability for the superintendent of schools. After almost a year in office, Henry Dibrell’s commitment to reform remains a huge question mark. Because of this, May’s election has to be two-for-two with no room for error. It seems...
One Of My Greatest Memories Of My First Major Battle For Public Education Reform Comes Back
Hello Mr. Scott, I’ve just read your report on “Analysis and Commentary on Public Education” and found it quite refreshing and yet sad, that still today little has changed in the education field. My father, Dr. Thaddeus Lott, Sr. loved what he did for his community, for children and our society. It was more than a job for my dad, it was his life! My father made a lot of sacrifices...
It’s Far From A Perfect Story; It’s Still Incomplete; But For One Of The Few Times In Recent Years, The Chronicle Education Reporters Have Ventured Into Actual Journalism; Is It A Total Coincidence That George Scott Reports Just Noted Deceptive AP Performance News From Fort Bend ISD?
By ERICKA MELLON Karen Banda, a sophomore at Furr High School, recalls with fondness the toughest course she ever took, in human geography. It was an Advanced Placement class, which meant she could earn college credit if she did well on a nationally recognized final exam. Banda scored too low, but she and her principal agree the experience of taking the class last year was invaluable. “It was...
Big Media Picks Up On Theme Of George Scott Reports That Says State’s New STAAR and End Of Course Testing Will Be Unmitigated Disaster
By Gary Scharrer AUSTIN — A new school accountability system is already creating anxiety for some educators and business leaders — not to mention students who will face much harder tests with high school graduation riding on the outcome. The new State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, is replacing the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, or TAKS, starting this spring. STAAR...
Commander Frailey & His Puppeteer Working Majority Board’s Oppressive Tactics Of Protecting The System Must End: It’s Up To The Public To Help Proctor & Huckaby Eliminate This De facto Government Censorship Immediately
Let me break the news to Alton Frailey and his band of puppeteers that form the working majority of the Katy I.S.D. school board. Katy is NOT Frailey’s administrative Center of Truth. Alton Frailey is a highly-paid government bureaucrat armed with a contract that does not serve the interests of public education in general or Katy I.S.D. taxpayers, students, parents, and classroom teachers in...
Principles To Guide The Path Forward To Reform
This document is not ‘light reading.’ The subject of public education is too important for the acquiescent acceptance of the status quo to continue. It is true that the emotions that can attach to the subjects can be intense. However, there has never been a time in our community’s (or the nation’s) development that the need to face important issues with courage and strength of purpose to do...
Racist Comments Leveled At KISD’s Dibrell Unacceptable; Reformers Fight About Issues And Principle - Not Race
FLASHBACK STORY: An anonymous blogger recently injected the subject of race as a basis of criticizing new Katy I.S.D. school board member Henry Dibrell, an African-American. This particular blogger, when confronted, ‘doubled-down’ in her comments. For those of us who are engaged in the battle of ideas on public education reform, we find this assault on Henry totally unacceptable. Over...
The Work Of Katy I.S.D. Trustees Dr. Bill Proctor & Terry Huckaby At Monday’s Workshop Is Confirmation That There Have Been Big Changes At The Board Table And Why They Need Reinforcements In May To Serve Citizens Even More
I don’t know what is the worst development or ’story-line’ for the status quo defenders of Commander in Chief Alton Frailey’s ‘Center of Truth’ operation that emerged from Monday’s workshop meeting of the Katy I.S.D. School Board: That the administration of Commander Frailey is showing signs of crumbling beneath the weight of its own arrogance… That...