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Comment on TEA Harasses Exemplary Charter School by Alejandra

Alejandra — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:30:03 +0000

Sounds to me that seeling her own properties for the district schools, chargeing more that she sould have, using state resources for her prived school, having her daughter, sun in law and I believe even her son as the administrators and members of the beoard present serious ethical issues, if not illegalities.
Yes, they dont offer bilingual or ESL education.. but that is an academic issue.. all I can say is WOW!
Texas Education Agency harrasing them?? I would say TEA shoudl have acted before on this one.. And who cares who raised the issues to TEA.. the reality is it’s happening
Shame on you!

Comment on THE CARTEL: New Documentary about Public School Corruption by Blogger Mandiri

Blogger Mandiri — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:00:27 +0000

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Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:57:21 +0000

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Comment on AISD Superintendent Carstarphen’s Excellent IDEA by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 05:50:38 +0000

They are absolutely not taking over the attendance zone, only providing those parents in the Allan attendance zone first “choice”to opt in or out. And, by the way, most families opted out. Why? The teachers. The teachers. And the Allan teachers. When families found out nit one Allan teacher would work for IDEA, many families opted out. IDEA will not even start with a full pk-5 elem, for fear the quality won’t be there…those are Tom Torkelson’s words. IDEA is shipping out all 3-5th graders to surrounding schools. This is not a practice that public schools generally have at their disposal. Stop making apples to apples comparisons with true public schools. Reasoning behind the small-scale charter school success is a smoke and mirrors game.

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hemoroizi tratament — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:15:49 +0000

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Comment on Parents Want Charter School to Take Over Eastside Memorial High School by Giuseppina Dooley

Giuseppina Dooley — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:13:02 +0000

I’m not really a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things earn money.
Every day I get up and appearance with the Forbes set of the richest people in the usa. If That’s not me there, I go to function.

Comment on Parent-Trigger Warfare by baughan

baughan — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:01:39 +0000

Bullying, coercion, fraud… and these are the people we trust to teach our children? Certainly a strong argument for parental choice school vouchers, private schools and homeschooling.

Comment on Parents Jailed for “Stealing” a Free Public Education for their Children! by gmirwin

gmirwin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:14:25 +0000

I’m sorry, but the PI following kids home scares me as a parent. It smacks of some kind of pervert. Also, I think the PIs should be wary of their safety if a parent or attentive neighbor sees them following kids. Things could get ugly.

Comment on AISD Superintendent Carstarphen’s Excellent IDEA by Jim

Jim — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:50:04 +0000

IDEA is taking over a school in an attendance zone now in East Austin, so it would seem they *are* willing!

Comment on AISD Superintendent Carstarphen’s Excellent IDEA by Stacey Smith

Stacey Smith — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:31:15 +0000

AISD can structure the school day and school year in much the same way charter schools do in order to provide students more time on task. There are creative ways to provide that kind of time in a way that provides the students more academic time without the intense burnout and “churn and burn” working environment, which leads to high teacher attrition rates. High teacher attrition rates are linked to poor performance rates in regular public schools.

What regular public schools in AISD and most other public school districts DON’T have in their working structure is the right to dismiss, expel, or counsel a kid exit the program because of any variety of reasons: the work is too hard, student isn’t attending tutorials, too many absences, won’t comply with the dress code. And you don’t have to exert this privilege too many times in order to get positive outcomes from the rest of the school population.

This kind of privilege is likely the powerful variable in the success of charter schools. If it WEREN’T, schools like IDEA would be more than willing to relinquish that privilege, relinquish the lottery system, and simply take over a school in an attendance zone, teach all kids, in the same way other public schools do. But they won’t because past efforts by charters to do this have been failures.

For charters to boast that their successes are based solely on the variable of great teaching and no-excuses culture are dishonest, at best. Appallingly deceitful is more like it.