State’s STAAR Test Will Be Unmitigated Disaster For Credibility Of TEA, Legislature, School Districts, Vendor Pimp Corporations, Consultants; Analysis Of KISD Semester Tests Show Ticking Time Bomb Of Pending Disgrace For Them
Stupidity on steroids. That’s the only way to describe what the evil empire of the public education industrial complex led by the Texas Education Agency has done to itself by the way it is rolling out its new accountability test - STAAR. When the TEA is forced to announce the results of testing this spring, the bottom line will be the unmitigated disaster these results will impose upon exposing...
Before I Begin Outlining My Specific Plan For Reform, Let Me Give You The Obligatory Executive Summary With Classic George Scott Rhetoric
The world of public policy has been disintegrating before our very eyes for the last two decades because Americans have been inculcated with an insatiable desire that every important issue be condensed to bullet points that reduce issues of great complexity to simplistic words. So it is in the world of public education accountability. The TEA and school districts can trot out a few bullet point...
Katy I.S.D. Board Member Dr. Bill Proctor Is Poised To Provide The Leadership Your Administration Will Not Provide On Dual Credit Program; We Need To Follow His Lead
If genuine academic reform is to actually occur in Katy I.S.D. at the secondary level, then Katy I.S.D. school board member Dr. Bill Proctor’s leadership in advocating for a fully mature and fully supported dual credit program at the district’s high schools will have to be implemented. While the district currently offers dual credit courses, the program operates with an insufficient priority. Dr....
Morton Ranch High School - College Enrollment & First Year Performance Indicators
Significantly more 2010 Morton Ranch High School graduates enrolled in the fall after their high school graduation in two-year community colleges in Texas than attended the state’s four-year universities, according to data released by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB). The same report notes that the percentage of MRHS students who could not be found or tracked as having enrolled...
The Texas Education Agency & Your Local School District Could Tell You The Definitive Truth About Your High School’s And District’s College Board AP Performance Results But They Don’t & They Won’t; Let’s Go Inside Fort Bend I.S.D. To See The Level Of ‘Deceptive’ Truth Parents Get From System
All across the nation and sweeping into Texas public schools, The College Board’s Advanced Placement course and testing program is deteriorating in quality and productivity moving further away from the service it has provided so well for so long. The AP program’s thesis is that it provides the brightest, most academically advanced high school students genuine college-level rigor courses and gives...
Texas Education Agency, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas Legislature, & Your School District Could Tell You With Great Precision How The Graduates Of Your High Schools Perform In College; You Should Consider The Meaning Of Governments That Could But Won’t Reveal
Imagine yourself as a keen fan of horse racing eagerly watching television coverage of the big race to see how your favorite horse (and bet) turned out. “Ladies and gentlemen, the big field is at the starting gate including the odds on choice to take this race Tomorrow’s Favorite. However, it’s a promising field in which the world’s top jockey is aboard long shot Yesterday’s Fade. Anything...
In Public Education & Katy I.S.D., “There Are Different Perspectives About The American Revolution, Depending On The Side You Were On”: How In Holy Hell Does District Justify Including This Description Of The American Revolution In Staff Development Training ‘Teaching’ Teachers How To Teach?
Long after your children have forgotten the myriad details and factoids about the historical figures of the American Revolution, there is a deep understanding your Katy I.S.D. wants them to cherish for their entire lives. It is so important to the district, that staff development time is being used to teach teachers how to teach students more effectively in order to help them acquire an enduring understanding...
It Is Time For Good People To Stop Watching In Silence As Government Bureaucrats And Private Vendors & Consultants Enrich Themselves Professionally & Financially As The Public Education System Implodes In A Sea Of Academic Corruption
My primary thesis regarding the public education system is that it has evolved into a state of pervasive academic corruption that has essentially destroyed the integrity involved in the delivery of instruction to an ever-increasing majority of students in the State of Texas. Further, my thesis asserts that intellectually dishonest public school administrators, corrupt private corporations including...
Instant News Katy Reports That KISD Board Member Robert Shaw Recovering From Surgery At Memorial Hermann
Here’s the link to the InstantNewsKaty story regarding Katy I.S.D. Board Member Robert Shaw. SHAW RECOVERING FROM SURGERY It goes without saying but will be said that I join thousands of people in this community who offer their prayers for Mr. Shaw and his family. When medical emergencies hit families, very little else matters at the time. I genuinely hope that Robert will soon be able to walk...
I Am Back For At Least A 4-Month Push To KISD’s Next Election Day - Proctor, Huckaby, Reform Need Help; As Effort Renews, Introspective Thoughts About The Battle
One of the great oxymorons of life is that so many conservative Katy Republicans who purport to breathe an inherent suspicion of the motives and actions of government trust Texas and Katy government bureaucrats to tell them what they ‘need to know’ about how well the government’s public education system is meeting their children’s needs. The second such great oxymoron is that liberal Katy...