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3 years, 7 months agojefmelch's comment on:
UPDATED: Ellis County publisher learning tough lessons about hardball rhetoric, InterWebs publishing
Joey and Megan remind me of James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles.
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3 years, 11 months agojefmelch's comment on:
Everyblock comes to your block
I don't suppose they'd want to do Texas Education Agency AEIS / TAKS /Standard Reports (superintendent salary, school disciplinary incident, staff/student ratios) by campus attendence zone?
It'd be HARD to match a user location to an attendence zone to a campus -- but it would be really cool.
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3 years, 11 months agojefmelch's comment on:
Mixed feelings through DISD over news that Hinojosa's son aided by program for disadvantaged students
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3 years, 11 months agojefmelch's comment on:
Dallas ISD board president election was un-American
Perhaps Carolyn Morris of Lancaster ISD can come up to Dallas and demonstrate how she runs her board meetings ...
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3 years, 12 months agojefmelch's comment on:
Lancaster ISD wants public in on superintendent search
I was, for a moment, hoping that "ACNTX" had filled in the form applying for the superintendent's job.
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4 years agojefmelch's comment on:
Dallas County Schools Board of Trustees
Darby and Duncan won their seats. Fincannon and Gandara will, I predict, run again another day.
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4 years agojefmelch's comment on:
Lancaster ISD trustees decide some important stuff (for a change)
As predicted, the dialog got contentious as the trustees debated this issue.
The outgoing board voted 4-3 to hire O'Hanlon McCollom and Demerath for all legal work. Voting against were Kirkland, Elliott and King.
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4 years agojefmelch's comment on:
Texas House Bill would make ballot access easier for independent candidates
Looks like this proposal died in committee last month.
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4 years agojefmelch's comment on:
Dallas ISD administration staff to work four 10-hour days during summer and take Fridays off
Yeah, well, let the administrators be their own lab rats to test the "4 day week" in a limited setting. IF the early test goes well, THEN consider rolling it out on kids.
What a concept.
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4 years agojefmelch's comment on:
Lancaster ISD candidates talk budget, transparency
Bill Conrad tells us:
http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2009/...
"Marion Hamilton, ... is challenging incumbent Ed Kirkland in District 2, " and
"Cynthia Corbin, who is opposing Elliott in District 1 ..."
Either he, or Bruce Sherbet is confused, The sample ballots
http://www.dalcoelections.org/may9200...
set up the races like this:
For Member of Board of Trustee, District No. 1 Marie Elliott (Para Miembro del Consejo Directivo, Distrito Núm. 1) Marion F. Hamilton
For Member of Board of Trustee, District No. 2 Ed Kirkland (Para Miembro del Consejo Directivo, Distrito Núm. 2) Cynthia L. Corbin
I'm sure Bruce will appreciate Bill straightening all this out.
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4 years agojefmelch's comment on:
Preview: Dallas County School Board election
I think I may have misunderestimated the ability of Duncan to help pass seatbelt legislation. A 2007 act will make that mandatory on school buses in 2010.
Consequently, the DCS will probably have to expand the size of the fleet 20% to 40%. This because fewer kids fit on the bench when belted, or so I understand.
This contributor regrets this oversight.
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4 years agojefmelch's comment on:
Lancaster ISD begins hunt for hunters for new superintendent
Discussion at the Monday, 20 April Lancaster ISD "Town Hall" revealed the trustees have chosen "Arrow Educational Services" as the headhunter for the new head of the district.
The search team will be conducting surveys of what the staff, parents and community wants in a superintendent. It sounds sort of like e-Harmony, looking for 57 varieties of compatibility, or something. "Our district is in Leo, so all candidates should be Geminis..." I dunno.
The first advertisment by Arrow attempting to matchmake this marriage is now up at
http://www.texasisd.com/cat_index_9.s...
Arrow is also matchmaking for Timpson ISD; Liberty ISD; and Rogers ISD.
Arrow's press release on the search is here:
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4 years, 5 months agojefmelch's comment on:
Lancaster residents, business owners oppose 18-month master plan
http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2008/...
Surely Marcus Knight would never participate in the sort of "shakedown" described by Jim Schutze and attributed to John Wiley Price.
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4 years, 5 months agojefmelch's comment on:
Lancaster ISD Administration Building
Also, the district will hold a "Public Hearing" on the 2007 "Financial Rating System of Texas" (FIRST) report regarding school finances in Lancaster.
The agenda is here: http://www.lancasterisd.org/sections/...
The report is here: http://www.lancasterisd.org/sections/...
A previous article on the FIRST score by the Dallas Morning News is archived here: http://www.lancasterisd.org/sections/...
The public hearing on the FIRST report was deferred from an earlier meeting October 27th.
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4 years, 5 months agojefmelch's comment on:
Northwest ISD trusted committee member/broker $621,500 too much
Agreed. The FBI investigated and found no illegal acts. No money stolen. Not even an overt lie told.
All it took to line his pockets with money the taxpayers intended for children in classrooms was just a personal betrayal of trust.
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4 years, 5 months agojefmelch's comment on:
Northwest ISD trusted committee member/broker $621,500 too much
The "Long Range Planning Committee" was developed for Northwest ISd by then superintendent V. Keith Sockwell. Mr Sockwell also recruited local realtor -- and schools booster -- Bruce Baucum to that committee.
The Texas Education Code http://law.onecle.com/texas/education...
http://www.region10.org/administrator...
mandates a district committee to develop plans and specifies the composition of such committees. Many districts ignore that requirement. A circle of insiders, instead, is empowered to develop plans that better support the local construction industry than those plans aid education.
Since leaving Northwest, Sockwell has joined with architectural planners SHW and publicist Scott Milder to spread the idea of "strategic planning" -- outside the mandates process -- to other school districts. SHW has basically franchised an operation under the brand name of "Cambridge"
(Sockwell attempted to hire SHW in 2001 for Northwest ISD to investigate their prior construction contractor. That effort failed, but by 2002 Sockwell had sold the voters of the community a huge bond, let the contract to SHW, built the district a gigantic football stadium, accomplished cosmetic "renovations" and "expansions" of actual school buildings and persuaded NISD trustees to offer him a raise.)
http://www.texashsfootball.com/board/...
http://www.shwgroup.com/portfolio/hig...
SHW/Cambridge, Sockwell and Milder are now selling bond-election, construction and, incidentally and as a by-product, educational planning services to customers such as Larry Lewis and Ed Kirkland of Lancaster ISD.
The Lancaster contract, in the first year, will cost the school system just over $100,000. The Trustees have already been told if they do not follow up with multi-year services later, at a price that remains unspecified, that first year funding will be wasted.
The Lancaster long-range planning committee held their first session Friday, November 14th.
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4 years, 5 months agojefmelch's comment on:
Lancaster ISD fires Superintendent Larry Lewis
The attorney responding to the Jones report did not bother to refute the claims by the TEA auditors against Dr Lewis. But a similar pattern of benefits to the "inner circle" is apparent in both.
For a couple of examples: the Jones report found sweetheart no-interest loans made to "inner circle" administrators -- already drawing six-figure salaries. The TEA audit reported that circle also had meals purchased by the superintendent using the district credit card while also drawing meal money/ per-deim. The Jones report found "awards" promised, and paid, out of general funds unapproved and unbudgeted by the board. The TEA audit found "banquet" and "celebration" meals similarly bestowed upon the superintendent's chosen.
Most of these expenses are of a few thousand dollars out of a budget of many millions. No doubt Dr Lewis considered them chump change. But it illustrates an environment where childrens' and teachers' needs fall into second place behind the need to buy loyalty, support, and silence among HQ administrators.
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4 years, 5 months agojefmelch's comment on:
Lancaster ISD superintendent could be charged with crimes
It's striking how quiet the commentary is, lately.
By the way, the TAKS test scores for the past school year are available from TEA.
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport...
The Lancaster ISD "district number" is "057913"
Get the data unfiltered and unspun.
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4 years, 6 months agojefmelch's comment on:
Lancaster ISD Board of Trustees expand inquiry of superintendent
The trustees cancelled the public hearing for Oct 27th regarding their Financial Integrity Rating. (FIRST) This is the latest in a series of such cancellations. Originally publicized for October 13th, the hearing was intended to be part of the regular board meeting. That board meeting was itself postponed until the 14th, but the FIRST hearing was dropped from the revised agenda.
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4 years, 7 months agojefmelch's comment on:
Lancaster ISD Board of Trustees expand inquiry of superintendent
" Lancaster has already been audited, and no 'outstanding' fiscal irregularities were reported. "
What's really interesting is that the audits have been audited. I mean, the TEA conducted a special audit of the annual compliance audit conducted by supposedly neutral, commercial, CPAs.
The deficiencies TEA noted were, I guess you might say, "IN-standing".
TEA griped that for the past several years LISD has failed to report their interest rate risk and credit ratings for accounts managed in their investment pools.
TEA notes for 2006-07 the total net assets declined from positive $3,467,847 to a deficit total net of -$3,042,679. (More than a $6 million change.
TEA wonders how, in a year with a deficit budget (expeditures exceeding revenues) the General Fund Balance mysteriously increased from $274,259 to $3,631,437. TEA also remarks that the reported fund "balance" is more than offset by that year's obligation of $6,000,000 toward repayment of Tax Anticipation Notes.
TEA notes the General Fund is hardly alone in deficit budgeting -- that the Child Nutrition Fund ( FEDERAL dollars) has for several years been reported with expenses exceeding revenues. This contrasts with Dr Lewis's reports to the board that the nutrition program is "self-funded". The TEA further notes that, to ensure continuing federal funding of school lunches, the Texas Department of Agriculture's Division of Food and Nutrition has been asked to follow-up with still another, targeted, review of LISD finances.
TEA remarks on the complete lack, in the CPA's compliance audit, of a required table "Exhibit L-1" regarding interest on Capital Appreciation Bonds. For the most recent year TEA estimates that, had the CPAs reported that interest correctly, the district's books would show another $5,870,190 dollar "correction." The TEA also notes this omission has been previously identified to the district without the district making the required corrections.
In short the TEA complains that year after year the financial reports emerging from LISD have incorrect, incomplete, and invalid.
This has got to be embarrassing to former trustee and former board president Nanette Vick. At the October 2005 board meeting, when the Financial Integrity Reports were reviewed, Vick was visibly angry to learn that for the --then -- third straight year LISD had failed the "data quality" measure. Vick specifically instructed Dr Lewis and the administration to get that problem fixed.
http://www.lancasterisd.org/sections/...
The minutes record Dr Lewis's assurance to the board that " There will not be another variance outside the parameters. '
The following year the data quality indicator exceeed the parameter (4%) again -- posting a 142% variance.
http://hancock.tea.state.tx.us/First/...
Allowed variance 4% -- measured "irregularity" of 142%, after Dr Lewis defied specific instructions from a SUPPORTIVE board president to get his financial controls in line.
No wonder the voters retired Vick in hopes of getting a stronger board president. The wonder is that Ed Kirkland didn't learn from Vick's example.
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4 years, 7 months agojefmelch's comment on:
Lancaster ISD superintendent's performance to be evaluated
RemoneD and I reach agreement: "And as Jef, pointed out again, Turnover is indeed going down'. "
At a price. Want another table of data?
(And why is it that the district has to come to ME of all people to crunch the numbers? Harvard didn't teach Dr Lewis math? Nobody else on staff can put together a chart?)
Average teachers' salaries, (for convenience looking at teachers with 6-10 years experience) rose dramatically in the years Dr Lewis was purging and re-hiring. These payrates were already at a premium over state averages.
aeis year _ _ _ District _ _ _ State
2003-04 _ _ _ 38,911 _ _ _ 37,4322004-05 _ _ _ 42,614 _ _ _ 38,220
2005-06 _ _ _ 43,970 _ _ _ 39,008
2006-07 _ _ _ 45,573 _ _ _ 42,380
Note last year the state average saw comparatively larger gains while Lancaster pay rates rose more slowly.
Part of the issue is that LISD doesn't observe a formal "step increase" schedule, as many other districts do.
Response follows stimulus. The AEIS results for 2007-08 will be out next month. I predict the payrates will lag again and turnover rates will creep up again.
Next, (maybe tomorrow) let's take a look at ADMINISTRATOR's payrates.
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4 years, 7 months agojefmelch's comment on:
Lancaster ISD superintendent's performance to be evaluated
Hi Disgusted:
As the resident math geek around these parts, let me assure you teacher turnover rates in Lancaster are decreasing.
That's due to the extreme peak (looks like a deliberate purge) back in the 2003-04 school year.
Bear with me as I construct another table of data:
Turnover Rate for Teachers:
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ District _ _ _ _ State average2003-04 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 34.90% _ _ _ _ 14.30%
2004-05 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 46.80% _ _ _ _ 16.10%
2005-06 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 24.70% _ _ _ _ 14.60%
2006-07 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 26.70% _ _ _ _ 15.60%Okay, the first year Dr Lewis arrived, the "turnover" rate among Lancaster teachers was more than double the state average. The next year, it went up even more, to nearly three times the state average. Since then, it's been declining. And the past two years turnover is merely 70% higher (10 or more percentage points higher, depending on how you like your statistics) than average.
But turnover is going down.
To put this into perspective, and make the arithmetic easy, consider that turnover rates of 25% on 400 teachers means there are 100 new teachers every year to get past interviews, do background checks, set up in payroll and retirement, orient by the employee handbook; introduce to principals, etc etc etc.
In consequence the percentage of EXPERIENCED teachers is roughly the reverse. That is, Lancaster is 10 percentage points (or about 70%) lower in the fraction of teachers with 11-20 years of experience compared to the average of all districts all over Texas. Dr Lewis hires younger teachers, and he hires a lot of them every year. But he doesn't keep them long.
These are the facts. In my opinion Dr Lewis's personnel policies resulting, on average, in less experienced teachers in classrooms contributes to the problems in TAKS.
More on Larry, and Marcus Knight, here:
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4 years, 7 months agojefmelch's comment on:
Lancaster ISD superintendent's performance to be evaluated
RemoneD asks:
http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2008/...
"And comparing Dallas ISD to lancaster, is comparing apples to oranges ... Where's Lancaster compared to other one horse schools/towns like Desoto... I think that'd be a more apt comparison. "
Okay.
(By the way, thank you for keeping an open mind and being engaged in honest dialog. So many posters just bandy insults and rhetorical questions. It's a joy to exchange views in honest inquiry.)
Let's compare the actual numbers, and compare the highly touted progress and gains in Lancaster to the same measure in DeSoto. Let's start with Reading. We'll compare Lancaster ISD from 2005 to 2008. And then we'll look at the same measure and grades and years in DeSoto.
(tables don't come across well in this format. Sorry.)
_ . LANCASTER . _ _ _ _ _ 2005 _ 2008 Gains
Reading 3rd grade _ 74 _ 76_. _ 2.70%
Reading 4th grade _ 57 _ 70_ _ 22.81%
Reading 5th grade _ 52 _ 74_ _ 42.31%
Reading 6th grade _ 73 _ 82_ _ 12.33%
Reading 7th grade _ 62 _ 69_ _ 11.29%
Reading 8th grade _ 71 _ 83_ _ 16.90%
Reading 9th grade _ 69 _ 68_ _ -1.45%
Reading 10th grad _ 54 _ 72_ _ 33.33%
Reading 11th grad _ 77 _ 85_ _ 10.39%
Now the rivals from across I-35:
DeSoto
Test Year _ _ _ _ _ _ 2005 2008 Gains
Reading 3rd grade _ 85 _ 84 _ _ -1.18%
Reading 4th grade _ 67 _ 74 _ _ 10.45%
Reading 5th grade _ 61 _ 75 _ _ 22.95%
Reading 6th grade _ 77 _ 82 _ _ 6.49%
Reading 7th grade _ 71 _ 78 _ _ 9.86%
Reading 8th grade _ 77 _ 88 _ _ 14.29%
Reading 9th grade _ 80 _ 77 _ _ -3.75%
Reading 10th grad _ 62 _ 77 _ _ 24.19%
Reading 11th grad _ 86 _ 86 _ _ 0.00%
It is entirely correct that Lancaster has acheived gains, and acheived HIGHER gains than DeSoto. For example, at 10th grade passing rates are up 33% in Lancaster, well over DeSoto's 24%. But the pattern also reveals that the MOST dramatic gains in Lancaster parallel the direction and range in DeSoto. That is, whenever Lancaster sees a big gain, (5th, 8th, 10th) Desoto has ALSO seen a big, if not as big, gain. This suggest that the TEST has changed as much as the instructional process.
When critics allege that Lancaster's scores are falling behind, this is what they're talking about. When DeSoto scores go up, so do Lancaster's. When they're down in DeSoto, so too in Lancaster. The TEST is controlling the direction of the changes as much as what's happening locally. And we we start from behind, we stay, or fall father, behind.
Again I would ask you:If Lancaster schools aren't the area's worst, which schools are?
This is a reasonable question. Students today will compete for the jobs and homes and politcal offices of tomorrow. Larry Lewis boasts the International Baccalaureate system will prepare Lancaster kids to compete with kids from anywhere. He boasts of "world class" schools with "state of the art" methods and "unsurpassed results"
It's the height of hypocrisy for him to ignore classes, the state, and results elsewhere; to turn always backward and compare the local scene today with the same scene yesterday.
It's like the farmer told the chickens when he walked into the hen house holding an ostrich egg: "Y'all really need to know what's happening elsewhere..."
Math is the same thing. Giving up on tables let me substitute a long passage of text.
In the past four years with Larry Lewis at the helm (using his admiral abilities) Dr Lewis took our 3rd graders from a 60% passing rate to 67% -- in 2008 reaching the level that DeSoto STARTED OFF with. During that same period, DeSoto third graders advanced FROM 67% up to 79% passing. They gained 12 points in the period Lancaster gained 7. Imagine Coach Larry Lewis explaining to the fans that his team had scored, not only a touchdown, BUT ALSO, the point after. Do you suppose he could get away with neglecting to mention that there had been competition? Do you suppose nobody would care that DeSoto had ended the first half with a 7 point lead and widened the gap by two touchdowns during the period his own team had scored only the 7 points boasted?
But TAKS isn't football. Lucky for Coach Lewis.
Back to reality. Among 4th graders, Lancaster has increased scores from 50% to 65%. That is, LISD has in 2008 NOT YET attained the level DeSoto reached in 2005. Meanwhile DeSoto has leapt ahead up to the mid-70% range.
Between the two 5th grade systems, it's a tighter contest. Lancaster is maintaining a slow but steady increase while DeSoto slipped back one percentage point between 2007 and 2008. Still every single year for the past four, DeSoto has edged out a "win" in the game. If this was football, Lancaster would be looking for a new coach.
At 6th grade -- it's just depressing. In 2006 for one brief shining moment, Lancaster math scores barely touched the 60% passing mark. (That's not quite a "D - " by letter grade.) Then they fell sharply back to the beginning point, 40%. Since then we've seen a slight improvement. Meanwhile, DeSoto, also depressingly, has seen math scores fall. But their team STARTED in the high 60's and has slipped gradually down to a low of 57% -- still vastly ahead of their rivals east of I-35.
DeSoto, in 2005 had an enrollment of 8241 students. Compared to Lancaster that year, with 5827, they had 44% more kids. But they paid their superintedent Alton Frailey $185K. Lancaster, by contrast, with fewer kids, fewer teachers, and worse test scores, paid Larry Lewis that same year $190K. Two percent more money, for over forty percent less responsibility.
By 2008 DeSoto had seen enrollment rise to 8889. But starting off with a new superintendent, Lloyd Treadwell, they LOWERED the payrate to $164K. Meanwhile, in Lancaster, enrollment fell. The exact figures are still being disputed. Call it 5900 or so. But Larry Lewis's base payrate increased to $197K. Now the comparison is TWENTY percent more money for FIFTY percent less responsibility.
Is it just bad luck RamoneD picked a comparison district that purely by accident happens to make Larry Lewis look overpaid?
Nope.
For the 2007-08 school year:
Cedar Hill reports enrollment of 7867 and paid Horace Williams only $180K
Waxahachie reports enrollment 6561 and paid Tom Collins $134K
Midlothian reports enrollment 6830 and paid Jan Kennedy $166K.
Larry Lewis got paid more than any of them --and accomplished less.
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4 years, 7 months agojefmelch's comment on:
Lancaster ISD superintendent placed on admin leave
Actually, a comment over there
http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2008/...
is most pertinent here.
RemoneD reports
" ...the current suspension did not come about as a result of his 'performance evaluation' yet rather as a result of a parental complaint behind an incident that occurred at the Lancaster / Ennis football game. "
RemoneD has been careful and truthful about his reporting. Whether it's his personal experience, his attending meetings where LISD adminstrators have presented, or reports from mainstream media, he correctly and accurately cites sources -- and double checks and corrects when necessary. Thanks Remone!
But I have not seen the source for the report regarding the football game. I was at the meeting where the boy's mom, then his aunt, made the accusation. I've also seen the local board policy which puts citizens complaining about the superintendent straight into what they call a "level two" hearing. That means they present straight to the board in executive session.
I don't know if the mom, aunt, or other family members were there for the 14th October meeting. I haven't seen any reports about it after the meeting. So I'm hopeful Remone will straighten me out. Presuming he hasn't had a confidential briefing from a source who doesn't want to be identified, of course.
The background of TAKS scores and financial weaknesses would, of course, influence any board considering any complaint against any superintendent, I'd think. A clearly successful leader would be able to get past one mistake. A clearly deficient leader sooner or later comes to "the last straw" -- the bit that breaks the camels back even though the box of rocks that came before did not.
It's not clear to me that the football game incident -- if Remone reports correctly -- falls into the "last straw" category or the "cheap convenient excuse to do whatever we want" category. I would hope he would, and invite him to, share his source and expand upon the news a bit.
While we're at it, an anonymous blogger elsewhere has an interesting report.
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blo...
BestSouthWestBlog.com infers that Lancaster Mayor Marcus Knight has so little confidence in Larry Lewis's schools the mayor sends his own kids to private school in DeSoto.
So two of the 203 kids Lewis expected this year may have been Knight's. And they didn't come.
Leading up to his mayorial run, Mayor Knight was an active participant in many local boards and committees. He served on the Lancaster ISD bond committee, for instance. Mayor Knight's mother, Mavis Knight, is a trustee of the Texas Board of Education. Lancaster's mayor can be assumed to be a fervent supporter of public schools in general. I can't help but wonder how closely his concerns about the Lancaster schools parallel my own.
Remone, who is well-wired into the Lancaster communications networks, may be able to provide us some insight on that, as well.
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4 years, 7 months agojefmelch's comment on:
Lancaster ISD superintendent's performance to be evaluated
Remoned says:
" Lancaster is NOT the worst school district in the area, there IS good that is going on here in this district, and whether you like him or not Dr. Lewis HAS done an admiral job. "
The general job, however, has been un-done.
That's a joke.
I'm sure Dr Lewis has admirable skills and talents. Math is not among them.
Let me repeat. Scores ARE rising. But not any faster than "inflation", as evidenced by other districts. Get out your pencil and chart paper -- if you're under 25, grab the TI-84 calculator -- and plot the data yourself. The Dallas Morning News has compiled it here:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedconte...
And if you're the sort of person who listens to Rush Limbaugh and distrusts the "Drive-By Media" you can double check the DMN's numbers with the Texas Education Agency, here:
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport...
Or you could just look at this message thread and read what I set before you. 3rd Grade Reading TAKS scores. Lancaster ISD. Worst in the county. Headed down, from 82% passing in 2007 to only 76% passing in 2008. The second-worst district, Dallas ISD, had 77% -- one point better, and at the very least is holding steady rather than falling behind over the period 2007 vs 2008.
Assume I'm lying. Then prove me wrong. What measures, OTHER than 3rd grade reading, are so strikingly and admirably rising?
If Lancaster is NOT posting the worst TAKS scores in the area -- let's agree on Dallas County as a working definition of 'the area' -- then name the district or districtS that Lancaster has surpassed.
You probably won't. You say, instead:
"I, as a Lancaster citizen, could care less about what's going on in Dallas, Highland Park, or anywhere else in the country."
Which strikes me as an odd attitude. Are we also to suppose you could care less than to see if the neighbors lights are on, when your own black out? That you could care less than check the price of gas at a station down the block than the one on your corner? That you'd rather just watch whatever is on the tube currently than work the remote and surf channels?
Again, it's the lazy approach to assume that what Larry Lewis and Pat Sadberry say about the test scores is the whole story.
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