A very “HOT” teacher! says:

March 27, 2017

This came in via the “Your comments” button:

Answers please…..how can our students in EPISD be expected to do good on the STAAR test when it is above 90° in the classrooms. Can we please take out a loan from Cabrerras generous raise to pay for someone to turn on the air conditioners at our schools for our students?
It would be interesting to see which schools already have air conditioning turned on. Could it be Cabrerra”s childrens schools or our board members favorites?? Wake up people….the preferential treatment is worse now than its ever been.
EPISD students deserve BETTER!

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EPISD–alternative reality

March 22, 2017

We are now learning that EPISD plans to move their curriculum and instruction department to the old Houston school when they are forced to vacate their central offices at the airport.

Houston currently houses an alternative school that works with students up to 26 years old and with some of the pregnant students.

From what we can glean, the district plans to place the department in two of the three floors of the school leaving the alternative school with one floor.

Word on the street is that neither the school’s principal nor the area school superintendent knew about the move before the news was published in the Times.

It is no wonder that morale among the rank and file at the district is at an all time low.

We deserve better

Brutus

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EPISD–transcript credits still a problem

March 16, 2017

The recently published “Transfer Credits Follow-Up Audit” of EPISD’s process points out that the district still is not awarding and denying credit to students that transfer into the district according to the district’s own rules as well as the Texas Education Agency rules.

People in our community have gone to jail for violating those rules.

Others are accused of similar violations today and face trial and possible imprisonment.

Yet our new management team and board of trustees have not fixed the situation.

We have not even heard them make statements about how they intend to address the problems.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Pretending not to know

March 14, 2017

What should we make of the fact that several of our local officials read the local blogs and  do not take steps to fix the problems that are pointed out?

Do they really think that we will forget?

We deserve better

Brutus

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EPISD–who’s first

March 12, 2017

The EPISD board has voted to sell $200 million of bonds out of the $669 million that the voters authorized.

Who’s first

It will be interesting to see which schools they work on first.

Will the spending be based on need or on satisfying the protected few?

We deserve better

Brutus

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