Out of town conferences

July 5, 2018

An EPISD employee sent this in:

Referring to your recent post Different Information:
This is an annual tech conference for using Technology in the classroom.   At the very least those attending should be teachers or computer teachers using the technology to integrate with classroom instruction OR IT (Instructional Tech Trainers) which EPISD has several (who probably attended as well) who actually know how to use the technology and know how to train teachers to use the technology.
Will Mr. Cabrera or Dr. Brown come back and train all the teachers on the wonderful educational sessions they attended? Not likely…We ALL know what occurs at out of town conferences…no accountability as to which sessions were attended.
If there is no money for raises, and insurance is rising, then no one should be able to attend out of town conferences as we also know those are very informational (and intended for teachers) but also a luxury this poor district cannot cannot afford.

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School data

June 30, 2018

A reader asked about the information Texas Tribune has published.

Follow this link https://schools.texastribune.org/

They provide data at the campus, district and state levels.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Another problem for the teachers

June 28, 2018

A loyal reader who is employed at EPISD just informed us that her health insurance premium rate went up $101.00 a month.

The teachers are not getting a pay raise to help them afford the increase.

Things are not going well at EPISD.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Different information

June 26, 2018

This is a portion of a note that Dan Wever sent in:

When the EPISD had a major problem this week and had meetings with the public for input Cabrera was nowhere to be found.  EPISD Board President Trent Hatch told the public he was meeting with the State Commissioner of Education trying to secure possible millions of dollars in grants.

While this may have been true, Mr. Hatch should have also known that he and Dr. Brown had both gone to Austin to speak at the Texas CTO Clinic.

President  Hatch should have known this as the superintendent is supposed to get his permission for events such as this.  However, in the usual performance of public information and Transparency, we were led down the primrose path knowing that our absent superintendent was working hard to help the district.

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EPISD classroom sizes

June 24, 2018

Please note that this was mistakenly published yesterday.  We took it down to keep with our habit of only posting once each day.

 

According to data available from The Texas Tribune if EPISD increased the number of students per teacher up to the overall state average, EPISD would need 53 fewer teachers (not to mention administrators).

The Tribune also tells us that the average salary for an EPISD teacher is $51,576 excluding benefits.  We don’t know what percentage to apply to the basic salary in order to compute the cost of benefits.  We do know that the state minimum retirement contribution is 6.8% and their lowest contribution to pay for health care is $350 a month for a teacher with no other family members being insured.  That adds another 8.1%.

If somehow the benefit costs only add up to 15% of the teacher’s salary increasing the class size up to the Texas average would save the taxpayers over $3.1 million per year.

We deserve better

Brutus

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