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Salaries of Texas Superintendents more than Texas Governor!

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Texas School Superintendents partner with the Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA) & Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) petitioning the legislature for funding. There will NEVER be enough funding for the progressive education system in Texas. Texas schools are riddled with unneeded programs and agenda’s costing the taxpayers millions.

Garland ISD superintendent Bob Morrison’s salary contract states he makes $260,000 a yr. Our own Texas Governor Rick Perry’s salary is $150,000. Shocking isn’t it? In addition to Morrison’s salary he gets employer funding for his retirement account not to exceed 25,000.00 a year, health insurance is paid through the district, life insurance, paid work & personal mobile phone and computer. Must be nice.

Bob Morrison came go Garland ISD from Mansfield ISD where a program was in place to make Arabic a mandatory class. Due to public outrage the program was halted.

 

Garland ISD school salaries in 2013.

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The Destruction of Texas Education! PARENTS WAKE UP!

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Across the state of Texas there is a movement by Texas Superintendents and others to totally transform Texas Education. This transformation is not in the best interest for our children or our country. With millions of dollars from the Obama stimulus packages, Dell and Gates Foundation there are numerous liberal/progressive groups working unbeknownst to many in transforming the way students will be taught. A traditional education where “absolute truth” and American Exceptionalism is taught is quietly being eliminated in you local school with the implementation of Project Based Learning (PBL) with the use of technology & the elimination of text books.  Project Based Learning has established roots in the United Nations. Please read more about it here.

 

The following 35 Texas Superintendents (mostly x coaches who know nothing about education)  originally got together and came up with “Creating a New Vision for Texas Public Education“.

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TASA has created the group Future-Ready Superintendents Leadership Institute. The institute is working hand in hand with ENGAGE2LEARN, a consulting firm to further implement the progressive/liberal transformation. Clark and Shannon Buerk run Engage2Learn and Shannon’s goal is education TRANSFORMATION. Engage2Learn will be invited by your superintendent to come to the district to hold community meetings using the Delphi technique, which actually controls the group discussion  giving the impression the groups input is valid and needed. The superintendent and Engage2Learn already have their plan in place and this meeting is nothing more than a consensus meeting.

More on the Delphi Techique Here and how to diffuse it.

 

Before Shannon Burke started Engage2Learn she worked with Cambridge Strategic Services (another consulting firm) working to transform education as well. Those involved in most of these consulting firms originally worked with local school districts and the education service centers. They have found ways to break away and continue to make money off of the local school districts. Education is big business. There is so much financial corruption and no accountability at all levels

 

Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA) and Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) and just two of many associations that are funded with through local school districts with a progressive agenda. Why are taxpayers funding these two groups is beyond me. Superintendents do not work for the district any longer the are indebted to the TASA and TASB agenda.

 

Parents and Taxpayers are the only thing that is going to make a difference. Please spread the word and inform others of what is happening with Texas Education.

 

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A Right to Bear Arms not GUNS!! In TEXAS no Less!

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I have to admit at 53 years of age I still find enjoyment in a fresh new box of crayons and new coloring book. Yes, I can still enjoying the art of coloring and drawing. The following blog in no way is to make fun of the student’s work but to criticize the teaching now taking place in Texas and the Nation. Online learning has become a HUGE focus in public schools now. Teachers post students work and pictures of the kids for the world to see. They want the students to connect with other world-wide. I find danger in letting children have free access to the internet but your local public school is not as concerned about your child’s safety as you are. The learning philosophy being utilized is called Project Based Learning, it is based on the collective the community in promotion of diversity, equity and globalization. American sovereignty is not taught in public school today, not even in Texas.

I found the following tweet on twitter praising the classwork of a Texas Student on their study of the Bill of Rights. I had originally thought it would be the work of an elementary student, with all the pretty pictures and colors.  You can understand my shock and amazement when I realized is was the work a 9th Grade  High School student. Is this the new TRANSFORMATION in Texas Education that Texas Superintendents are looking for?  Carrie Ross is an certified English Teacher at Trinity Independent School District.

In the students defense if he/she had actually drawn a gun, they probably would face school suspension in our politically correct society.

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After posting the above post Ms. Ross contacted me through twitter and wanted me to remove the post. Why? Why would you post it for the world to see then ask me to remove it. I am want to reiterate my criticism is not of the student but of the assignment. Teach the students the truth! Why we actually have a 2nd amendment is to stop a dictatorship. Obama and his left cronies would love to have our guns. They do not want an armed citizenry. Unarmed citizens will leave unable to protect our FREEDOM and our all our rights as American citizens.

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“If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state and local agencies

will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever.

But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except

that you’re liable to be given more money to do it with.” — Ronald Reagan

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Texas Drops “Anti-American” CSCOPE Lessons; Battle Continues

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Written by Alex Newman

The New American

 

A highly controversial school curriculum used in much of Texas known as “CSCOPE,” which came under relentless assault from activists and parents who said it was promoting “progressive” anti-American and anti-Christian propaganda, was dealt a major blow by policymakers this week. However, despite media reports and legislators heralding the death of the divisive educational program, major elements remain in place. Still, the news was lauded as a victory for common-sense education as the national battle over Obama-backed “Common Core” standards heats up.texas flag

The CSCOPE program was touted online by its developers as a “customizable, online curriculum management system” for Texas schools. Despite being used in more than two thirds of state school districts, the scheme largely flew under the radar — at least for a while — until a broad coalition of concerned parents, teachers, political activists, Tea Party groups, and others eventually cried foul.

The system surged into the national spotlight earlier this year when conservative media outlets began exposing the curriculum contents, which critics lambasted as everything from “Marxist” indoctrination to “pro-Islam” attacks on Christianity. Others complained that parents were not allowed to access the material due to “licensing” restrictions.

Produced by the Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative (TESCCC), the lesson plans included, for example, an assignment to design a new communist flag based on symbols used by socialist regimes. A controversial handout for “social studies,” meanwhile, portrayed humanity as evolving upward from a purportedly selfish free-market economic system toward socialism. The final step was communism, where, supposedly, “all people work together for everyone.” Another lesson suggested the famous Boston Tea Party could be considered an act of terrorism.

Among the most controversial elements of the entire scandal were school materials that critics viewed as hostile toward Christianity. One lesson plan, for instance, introduced the Christian religion as a “cult,” even suggesting that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ described in the Bible represented repackaged versions of Egyptian and Persian mythology — an absurd notion that has been debunked by countless scholars and theologians. Opponents also blasted what they said was a “pro-Islam” bias in the lesson plans.

After the state-wide outcry turned into a national scandal, Texas lawmakers, under heavy pressure from constituents, eventually got involved in the issue. On Monday, months after the furor first erupted, legislators and TESCCC board members announced during a press conference that CSCOPE was essentially dead. The entity responsible for producing the material, meanwhile, will no longer be producing lesson plans or curriculums. Policymakers seemed delighted to put the controversy behind them.

“I’m pleased that the CSCOPE Board has made the decision to get out of the lesson plan business,” said Republican State Senator Dan Patrick, the chairman of the Senate Education Committee who led much of the effort to stop the scheme. “This is a positive development for students, parents, teachers, and for the Regional Service Centers. I want to thank the members of the Senate Education Committee for their months of work on this issue. I also want to thank Attorney General Abbott and his staff in providing valuable assistance in our review of CSCOPE.”

Sen. Patrick of Houston noted that once the TESCCC board officially approves the measure later this week, he would notify the state Board of Education that they no longer needed to review the 1,600 CSCOPE lesson plans. “The CSCOPE era is over,” the senator continued. “However, what the last several months has proven is that the state will have to create a plan to monitor all online material in the future so that our schools and classroom remain completely transparent to parents and the legislature knows what is being taught in our classrooms across Texas.”

TESCCC Chair Anne Poplin and other board members thanked Sen. Patrick and his fellow lawmakers on the state House and Senate education committees, saying their leadership had been “invaluable” and that they look forward to having a “positive relationship” in the future. “We believe that this is the best decision moving forward, and allows us to continue to provide high-quality services to the more than 1,000 school districts and charter schools in Texas,” Poplin and another board member said in a statement.

While spokesmen for the entity responsible for CSCOPE originally defended the material, it appears that the support softened as critics’ outcry grew louder. More recently, officials across the state rushed to distance themselves from the program as well. Conservative activists, meanwhile, celebrated the latest developments, with some arguing that more work was needed to rein in out-of-control educational bureaucrats and prevent similar occurrences.

“Never underestimate the power of blogs and grassroots pressure from conservatives in Texas!” wrote longtime CSCOPE critic David Bellow, a Texas Republican Executive Committeeman who has been blasting the program for months in online articles. “We must not let our guard down though and the Texas Legislature needs to continue to take action to prevent bad curriculum and an online backdoor curriculum from being introduced into Texas schools with no oversight.”

Not everyone was celebrating, however. State Board of Education Vice Chairman Thomas Ratliff of Northeast Texas was among those expressing concerns. “I’m already getting emails from superintendents and teachers at my districts saying, ‘Now, what?’” Ratliff said in a statement. “There were 1,600 lessons in that thing. That’s not easily replaceable…. For some districts, they are a small, optional part. For other districts, it was a lifeline. It’s a sad day for small school districts and the state, and it’s all because of politics.”

As CSCOPE critics celebrated the small victory and its backers complained, some media reports and officials suggested that the death of the program might not have arrived yet. Indeed, even though the controversial lesson plans will be taken down, the federally funded “Regional Education Centers” will continue to operate, and “management portions” of CSCOPE will remain available to school districts, according to media reports.

Even SBOE Vice Chair Ratliff noted that the “heftier” elements of the scheme, which outline the K-12 government-mandated requirements and the timelines for learning them, remain intact. “So, yes, the rumors of their death have been exaggerated,” Ratliff was quoted as saying in the Longview News-Journal. “It is not CSCOPE that’s going away; it’s just that one component.” The element that has been banished: the controversial but optional lesson plans. Everything else essentially remains in place.

To prevent a similar situation — Texas children being taught anti-American or anti-Christian propaganda — lawmakers are working on a bill, Senate Bill 1406, to provide more oversight of CSCOPE. The bill passed a third reading in the state House, and opponents of the controversial lesson plans are urging activists to back the legislation. Because CSCOPE still exists and will continue to be offered at Texas schools, Republican state Rep. Steve Toth also said he planned to continue pushing the legislation.

The 20-member governing board in charge of CSCOPE, meanwhile, is asking lawmakers to pass House Bill 1675, which would keep the federally funded “Regional Education Centers” open until 2019. Even anti-CSCOPE lawmakers indicated that they did not see a problem with the program, local media outlets reported. Why Texas or any other state would need or want unconstitutional federal funding for its education programs remains unclear — especially considering the “strings” that are almost always attached.

As the education battle over CSCOPE was heating up in Texas, a much larger fight was brewing nationwide — the effort to stop the Obama administration-backed “Common Core” standards. The controversial effort, which has relied mostly on federal bribes and bullying, aims to track students and standardize education across America by getting state governments to adopt the widely criticized standards. Some 45 states — not including Texas — have already signed up for the plan, but over a dozen so far are considering withdrawal. Activists and experts say that battle is just getting started.
Alex Newman is a correspondent for The New American, covering economics, politics, and more. He can be reached at anewman@thenewamerican.com.

 

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ROCKWALL ISD Ethics Violation?

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Rockwall ISD, in Rockwall Texas feels at liberty to attack parents and taxpayers that are greatly concerned about the district’s use of the Marxist curriculum CSCOPE. On April 11, 2013 Hudson ISD’s  liberal superintendent and TASA’s legislative chair, Mary Ann Whitiker  has written and posted an article on TEXAS ISD calling the parents and taxpayers MaCarthyist and their actions comparable to the false allegations of those of the Salem Witch Trials. In reading Ms. Whitikers description of the Salem Witch Trials she pretty well quoted the details of the event in her article, from Wikipedia verbatim.

Wikipedia definition……

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Ms. Whitikers’ definition

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Ignoring the facts that there is controversial material riddled though out CSCOPE which has been presented to State Senators and Representatives which is now under the review of the Texas Attorney General, Mrs. Whitiker can’t except the truth if you laid in right in front of her. I am glad my children or grandchildren are not in Hudson ISD or Rockwall ISD for that matter.

Rockwall Superintendent Jeff Bailey obviously finds Ms. Whitiker’s accusations appropriate. Rockwall ISD has linked Ms. Whitiker’s article to the school website.   As I have stated in an earlier blog: Superintendent Jeff Bailey is not doing his job!!

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CSCOPE Linked to Common Core Standards

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CSCOPE representatives and superintendents across the state continue to LIE to parents and members of the community that CSCOPE has no affiliation with COMMON CORE.. Are they LYING…. you be the judge? 

 

Below is an  excerpt from  CSCOPE’S Parental Advisory memo available on  school district websites across the state. FULL MEMO HERE. The memo was written in hopes of diffusing concerns and questions  from parents and the public in regard to CSCOPE’s pro Islamic, Anti American stance and it’s relation to Obama’s Common Core Standards (which Texas did not adopt). Below you will see in the highlighted area that the memo emphatically states that CSCOPE has no affiliation with COMMON CORE. 

 

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CSCOPE’S password protected sight has an Instuctional Focus Document for teachers to utilize in lesson planning. As you will see on this portion of the  Instructional Focus Document, the highlighted area gives the teachers a link to go to. 

 

 

 

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Go to the link provided www.epsilen.com, Scroll across the tabs at the top of the page

 to Partners.

 

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You will see many of EPSILEN’S partners..The New York Times (that ought to be some relief, lol), etc…… Then scroll to the bottom of the page where you will see the following…

 

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ARE CSCOPE REPS AND SUPERINTENDENTS LYING? 

Unfortunately YES!!

DON’T YOUR CHILDREN DESERVE BETTER? 

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TEXAS EDUCATORS: WHAT IS THEIR AGENDA? DO YOU REALLY KNOW?

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AGENDA: GRINDING DOWN OF AMERICA is documentary that every parent, grandparent and citizen needs to watch. After removing my children in their elementary years from the public/govt controlled school system, I unfortunately was no longer involved in the political process when it came to issues involving  education. That all changed after watching this shocking documentary  and finding out about the Marxist Curriculum in Texas Schools called CSCOPE. I rented a local room and showed the film to community members to inform them as the indoctrination taking place in their local schools. I have found CSCOPE lessons asking students to draw a new communist flag and found a CSCOPE lesson asking the teacher to hand out verses of the Quran to students.

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CSCOPE was implemented under a shroud of secrecy by leftist educators at great expense to taxpayers. If CSCOPE and others like it are not removed the America we have loved will be gone. The days of trusting your superintendents who are controlled by the left organization TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS (TASA) paid with your tax dollars are OVER! School board members after elected by the public become a trustee of the school district and are not accountable to those that elected them until the next election. The seem to serve the  superintendent who for the most part cannot be trusted with protecting your child from Marxist indoctrination, if you look at all the school districts in Texas that have purchased and implemented it. Texas Association of School Boards is another leftest organization that millions if not billions of taxpayers money is funding and controlling your local school boards.

Please watch the following trailer of AGENDA: GRINDING DOWN OF AMERICA .. You can purchase them at HERE.

GET INVOLVED AND EDUCATE THOSE AROUND YOU

 

For additional info on CSCOPE go to WWW.TXCSCOPEREVIEW.COM

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