EPISD–transcript corrective action plan

March 1, 2017

The recently released “Transfer Credits Follow-Up Audit Report” outlines a corrective action plan.  From the report:

A Corrective Action Plan (CAP) was provided by administration outlining activities to e implemented to address the audit report findings.  The activities, person(s) responsible, and projected implementation dates are outlined below.

The report is telling us that district administrators came up with a plan to fix the problems.

There were evidently eighteen “activities” that staff proposed.

Partial disclosure

Incredibly the report starts with activity number 3.  Activities 1 and 2 were left out of the report.

We have to wonder what happened.

We deserve better

Brutus

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EPISD–transfer credits follow-up audit

February 28, 2017

EPISD recently published a report dealing with an internal audit of the process used to grant or deny credit for course completion to students transferring into the district.

The audit report outlined seven problems as follows:

  1. 39% of applicable students’ transfer course credits were either not earned or shorted by the district.
  2. 40% of applicable students’s transfer requests were not correctly evaluated.
  3. 13% had the incorrect school year recorded
  4. 24% of the cases had inadequate documentation in the files
  5. 31% of the courses that were evaluated resulted in an incorrect grade being credited to the student
  6. Roughly one third of the cases were not documented within the state required 30 day period.
  7. 61% of the foreign transfers resulted in the student being awarded the incorrect Spanish course.

We have heard a lot of lip service from the district staff, their board, law enforcement agencies, and The El Paso Times about how horrible it was when in the past the district “cheated” in evaluating transfer credits.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Council–members at play

February 27, 2017

Of the four city representatives being looked into by the Texas Rangers and our local district attorney for potential violations of the Texas Open Meetings act, two of them will have to face the voters in May.

Representatives Limon and Tolbert will need to be reelected in order to stay on council.

Representatives Niland and Svarzbein each have two more years before their terms expire.

Recall elections

Our city charter does not allow a recall election for a city representative that has less than one year remaining in their term.  Representatives Limon and Tolbert fall into this category.  If one or  both of them resign the state constitution requires that an election to fill the vacancy occur within 120 days.

If  either Niland or Svarzbein resign at this point the constitutional [correction, city charter] provision will require an election within 120 days.  If a recall effort gets certified and one or both of them [correction, then] resign, our city charter states that “no recall election shall be held”.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Trying to hide?

February 26, 2017

One of our city representatives complied with the open records request requiring that he turn over text messages relating to the serial quorum that he seems to have been involved in.

Partially

Actually he failed to turn over a key one that proves that he and others intended to violate the law by manipulating the number of members of council in a secret meeting.

What does that tell us?

We deserve better

Brutus

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Thank you representative Limon

February 25, 2017

Our thanks to city representative Limon for her willingness to communicate with us about issues raised on this blog and for taking time to ask the city to correct problems that are pointed out here.

This is better

Brutus

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