Michalsky, Griffin Defeat Majors & Blackman In Katy I.S.D. Board Race
Elections have meaning. In electing Bryan Michalsky and Charles Griffin to the Katy I.S.D. Board of Trustees, the voters of Katy I.S.D. have determined they are satisfied with the leadership of the school district. Terri Majors and Cynthia Blackman ran campaigns saying they wanted to create a new working majority on the school board to pursue a series of reforms including expanded accountability...
Katy Tiger Football Apparently Pursuing School Board Championship
Fresh on the heels of former Katy Tiger football head coach and icon Mike Johnston’s emergence from the shadows to support “these men” in the race for Katy I.S.D. School Board, word has now come that former Tiger all-state great and NFL player Eric Heitman has made a substantial financial contribution to help the Katy Tiger friendly candidates. Apparently, the rumors that swirled...
Saturday’s Election A Referendum On What Parents & Taxpayers Believe Is Their Appropriate Role In Katy I.S.D.
Saturday’s school board election is not a referendum on Katy I.S.D. Superintendent Alton Frailey. While he is the focal point point because of his intellectually idiotic decision to establish his administration as the “Center of Truth” on matters of public education… While he is the focal point because he once told teachers gathered in one of his self-righteous and pompous command...
KISD Election Week Dawns So Here Are Random Thoughts: District’s Latest PSAT Scores; Wolfe Elementary & Extracurricular Activities; Katy Tiger Football Icon Mike Johnston; Former Reformer Stanley Thompson & Political Bumper Stickers; Parents, Students & Classroom Teachers
So let’s follow the headline. Fresh off reporting the good, the somewhat good, and the very ugly results of the 6-year college graduation rates for the high schools of Katy I.S.D., I sought and received the latest round of results on the 2011-12 Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT). In many valuable ways, the PSAT tests administered to juniors give parents and the public the most effective...
Taylor & Cinco Ranch High Schools Pace KISD And Texas In College Graduation Rates; But, If Your Child Is Not Among Their Elite, What Do These Statistics Mean To Your Family?
Taylor and Cinco Ranch High Schools rank in the top 10 in Texas in producing high school graduates who earn baccalaureate degrees from universities in Texas within the industry-standard timeline of six years, according to the most recently available statistics from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. (THECB) While the THECB does yet report graduation rates for Seven Lakes High School and...
Direct Links To Recent Columns On Katy I.S.D.
There are thousands of new people coming to this website. For that reason, I am posting a column that will help them catch up on recent columns that I consider to be still currently relevant. There is an extensive archive on past reports available to readers. As columns go off the featured post section, they will be added to this easy, ‘catch up’ link. THERE REALLY IS A WAR ON CLASSROOM...
Early Voting Starts Monday; Future Of Katy I.S.D. And Reform Efforts Rest On The Election Of Cynthia Blackman And Terri Majors To Establish New Working Majority On School Board
Let me present you with the faces of reform for Katy I.S.D. They are the faces of Cynthia Blackman and Terri Majors. Early voting starts Monday. The official election day is Saturday, May 12. When the votes are counted and the winners named that night, Katy I.S.D. will be on a path of reform or it will continue on its backsliding path of management arrogance and school board acquiescence pushing...
KISD Administrators And School Board Really Do Have A War On Classroom Teachers & Your Children Are Losing
There really is a war on classroom teachers in Texas public education in general and Katy I.S.D. in particular. Your children are losing this war. Successive administrations and school boards in Katy I.S.D. seem to be fully engaged in that effort on multiple fronts. One ‘war fronting’ in particular is the administrative process of imposing goofy curriculum mantras on classroom teachers...
Higher Education Coordinating Board Reports That Fewer Than 25% Of Mayde Creek High School Graduates Earn Baccalaureate Degrees With 6 Years; This Report Does Not Include Out Of State Graduates, But Like KHS, Does That Really Change The Big Picture? No, It Really Doesn’t
Of the 1,865 members of the Mayde Creek High school graduating classes of 2002-2004 tracked, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) reports that 22.5% received a baccalaureate degree from a Texas public or private university within the industry-standard timeline of six years. Of these three successive graduating classes from Mayde Creek High School, 4.1% earned an associate...
The Harsh Reality Of Katy High School’s College Graduation Rates Puts Defenders Of Status Quo In Full Scale Panic; Katy I.S.D. Administrative & School Board ‘War On Classroom’ Teachers Finally Reaching Public’s Awareness
The documented news from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board that the majority of high school graduates of Katy High School have such a mediocre record of performance in higher education has struck the defenders of the status quo school board and school administration in Katy I.S.D. with the full force of Category 5 hurricane. It has brought out the status quo’s ’faithful but...