Congratulations to everyone involved with EPISD’s Lundy Elementary!
Children at Risk has given Lundy an A+ rating in their 2015 analysis. Lundy placed 183rd out of 4,421 Texas elementary schools.
Lundy was ranked higher than any other elementary school in the county.
Well done!
Brutus
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Recently the EPISD board gave their superintendent a 5 year contract extension.
The superintendent did not have a necessary certification when he was hired and his contract required him to gain the certification. According to the EPISD web site he has done so.
The superintendent did not ask for a raise in his recent contract discussions.
That is a really good sign.
Brutus
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Aren’t we lucky?
Our long time district attorney has stood on the sidelines while many of local politicos are convicted.
Now on the eve of an election where he has two opponents he has decided to ask a different agency to investigate some of the mess at the city.
Wow! Talk about firm action to protect the citizens!
Note that his office is not talking about investigating. He is asking someone else to do it.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Dori Fenenbock sent this in relating to our recent post Texans For Education Reform. She evidently got it from an official at EPISD.
That assertion is wrong. All public education institutions in Texas, including charters, are funded using a combination of Weighted Average Daily Attendance (WADA) credits applied to a set of per student formulas as determined by state law. The money comes from a variety of sources of which property taxes is just one element.
To say that school districts that tax get a net gain to charters is a fundamental misunderstanding of how the system works.
In fact charters are funded at the state average of all traditional schools on a per student (WADA) basis which includes property rich districts. As a result charters are funded better on a per student basis than any of the traditional school districts in our immediate area because all of them are in the property poor category.
The amount of money a public school, including charters, gets is driven by a formula of which property taxes is one element. The formula used for charters excludes property taxes but captures the benefit of those taxes because of the averaging mechanism used by the state for charters. That averaging provided to charters results in a benefit over property poor districts like EPISD.
If the blogger doesn’t understand that then he doesn’t understand how the system works. It appears that he’s picked out one element used in the funding system and has used it out of context of how the overall system works to make a point that is fundamentally incorrect.
Hope this helps.
We deserve better
Brutus
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The Times ran an article the other day that I read as criticism of Texans For Education Reform (TER).
While the article spent little time explaining what TER is up to they did seem to give special emphasis to what they think is wrong with the group.
The article even had subheadings like “Objections”, “Connections”, and “Replacement not, persuasion”.
They did explain that TER is a proponent of more charter schools. One of the cited objections is that the charter schools use “public school money”. It is true that charter schools get funding from the state. How the money became “public school money” was not explained.
The article did not point out that charter schools do not get any of our local property taxes. In EPISD local tax revenue accounts for about 35% of their revenue.
My point here is neither to endorse nor condemn charter schools. From a financial perspective however for every student that attends a charter school the public schools are getting 35% of their normal per student revenue and are bearing zero percent of the cost of their education.
Please let us know what your thoughts are about charter schools.
We deserve better
Brutus
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