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Transparency

As with any governmental entity, funding plays an important role in school district decision making. Do you believe that transparency is possible when funding is limited in a politicized educational climate? Transparency is essential to a healthy relationship between a public school district and the community it serves. 


In 2021, Board of Trustees President Christopher Earnest worked with the district Superintendent of Finance and school administrators to make the checkbook register available to parents. You can now easily view where your tax dollars are going here. 


One of the 2022-2022 Board of Trustees accomplishments was the the successful cancelation of the district's contract with  Panorama Education. Lisa Alpe spearheaded the termination of this data mining effort that acquired your child's information without parental consent.  According to news sources, Panorama digs far deeper than whether students might feel depressed or lonely, raising serious public policy questions. It includes  prying questions, to gauge student "social and emotional learning," such as gender and sexual orientation and views on racial issues.


Social Emotional LEarning (SEL) Surveys



If psychological data resided in a psychologist's office, it would be protected by HIPAA (the health insurance Portability and Accountability Act) This information is not protected in a school's database.


It is our understanding that there are other trojan horse questionnaires given to students under the guise of social emotional learning. SEL happens to be one of the more harmful tenants of Critical Race Theory.


Talk with your child. If you or your student encounters a questionable survey, contact Mike Thomas with the Department of Research and Evaluation as well as your campus principal to opt out.


Learn more at Parents Defending Education.

Consultants with A Politicized Agenda

Since the spring of 2020, more than $20 million has been spent on the acquisition of DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) programs for public schools nationwide.

 

Some believe this multimillion dollar industry sets out to reform how teachers instruct students in the ways they think about social justice. And some believe the consulting industry exploited George Floyd's death, and that administrators quickly agreed to hefty contracts as a way of virtue signaling.


The question is: Would you like your child to be taught how to think or what to think? And, how much taxpayer dollars are being spent on consultants instead of  literacy and numeracy (reading, writing and arithmetic) which are critical priorities for T-2-4 student success? 




HOMEWORK FOR PARENTS

  • Read the school budgets, financial statements and bond official statements. 
  • Read the reports for the teachers pension funds. 
  • Request to see all corporate contracts and purchases. 
  • Learn who has the bank accounts and investment contracts. 
  • Learn who is making money on the policies that are harming your children and soaking up your local tax dollars.
  • Understand key laws such as the Texas Open Meetings Act and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)


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