Look for the controversy at EPISD to become more public and more heated.
Word on the street is that the district is playing dirty tricks with personnel in order to save money.
They need to be careful. District employees deserve to be treated fairly and the board should not be saying one thing in public and doing something else in private.
If cuts need to be made then so be it.
Teachers are feeling that they are bearing the brunt of the process and that the administration is not.
This board is failing to instill confidence in the citizens and that was one of the primary reasons given for overriding the voters with the appointed board.
We deserve better
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Morale at the district is lower now than when Garcia was sleeping his was around the various departments. The reorganization plan, if there is one, has never been articulated to the employees.
What is happening is that people are being reassigned, especially central office and campus admins but with little or no explanation to anyone. The cover of “it is a personnel matter” is used in almost all instances, so no one knows anything. Your high school principal today is the new Assistant principal at a middle school tomorrow.
Cabrera has some good ideas, unfortunately he has no management skills and the “team” he has assembled of out of town consultants and administrators with little or no experience in running a large district are basically “yes” men that do not put up any kind of “Con” statements.
Word at the campuses is that he is also very thin skinned and cannot take criticism very well, something you would think a lawyer would be able to handle. Make one mistake and you are reassigned.
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Some individuals on the board of managers also have a thin skin. Also, we are seeing a pattern of the “personnel matter” excuse being used increasingly as an reason for not openly discussing both city and EPISD business issues.
As reported in the current issue of BusinessWeek magazine, developers in some parts of the country contribute land and money to build and fund schools in locations, which helps to make their new developments more attractive to home buyers. They invest in the schools because it is to their benefit. Here, we are switching to open enrollment so that people who buy new homes in new developments, which are in less desirable school districts, can send their kids to schools in other districts. The open enrollment strategy requires no such investment on the part of the developers. who are the financial beneficiaries of this change in policy.
The timing of the open enrollment decision coincides with increased residential development on the far west side, much of which is in the Canutillo district. It helps that certain developers have friends on the EPISD board of managers. One can’t help but wonder if those two things are connected.
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Am I the only one who wonders why the El Paso community allows someone from San Antonio to serve as an unelected EPISD Board of “Managers”? Who is paying her expenses…TEA or EPISD? And how much has this already cost us with 12 more months to go?
Unbelieveable.
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