http://georgescottreports.com Mon, 14 May 2012 12:23:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://georgescottreports.com/2012/05/13/michalsky-griffin-defeat-majors-blackman-in-katy-isd-board-race/ 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 ... http://georgescottreports.com/2012/05/11/katy-tiger-football-apparently-pursuing-school-board-championship/ 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 ... http://georgescottreports.com/2012/05/08/saturdays-election-a-referendum-on-what-parents-taxpayers-believe-is-their-appropriate-role-in-katy-isd/ 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 ... http://georgescottreports.com/2012/05/07/kisd-election-week-dawns-so-here-are-some-random-thoughts-districts-latest-psat-scores-wolfe-elementary-katy-tiger-football-icon-mike-johnston-former-reformer-stanle/ 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 ... http://georgescottreports.com/2012/04/28/the-great-news-is-that-taylor-but-if-your-child-is-not-among-the-elite-there-what-does-it-mean-to-you/ 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 ... http://georgescottreports.com/2012/04/27/direct-links-to-recent-columns-on-katy-isd/ 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 ... http://georgescottreports.com/2012/04/27/early-voting-starts-monday-future-of-katy-isd-reform-efforts-rest-on-the-election-of-cynthia-blackman-and-terri-majors-to-establish-new-working-majority/ 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 ... http://georgescottreports.com/2012/04/22/katy-isd-administrators-and-school-board-really-do-have-a-war-on-classroom-teachers/ 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 ... http://georgescottreports.com/2012/04/22/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-li/ 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 ... http://georgescottreports.com/2012/04/22/the-harsh-reality-of-katy-high-schools-college-graduation-rates-of/