LTISD Info

Yes, apparently the TEA ratings appeals have been out to the districts since last week. Most schools with positive news to report about their ratings have already come out and announced the TEA decision.

Why has the LTISD been silent?

Do you think that the LTISD’s rating appeal has been turned down?

The TEA will announce the final decisions on November 4th, the day after the Rollback Election, you know, the election where the LTISD and their minions are seeking more of our money for Rocky Kirk’s outrageous pay and an overpaid General Counsel and another year of “Academically Acceptable” under Rocky’s reign, and …

Apparently very few districts were successful in their appeals. They should not have been since the TEA relaxed their standards this year already.

“Only a handful of North Texas schools were successful in appealing their state accountability ratings, despite an uptick in the number of disgruntled districts protesting their rankings.”

The Texas Education Agency notified superintendents last week but will not release results publicly until Thursday.

Appeals more than doubled this year, largely because of stricter dropout rules that affected completion rates and left schools scrambling to recount their students. In most cases, schools were too late.

- “TEA to announce results of ratings appeals this week,” Jessica Meyers, The Dallas Morning News, November 2, 2009

Hopefully the rollback election will be defeated and we won’t have to flush more of our hard earned money into the LTISD toilet.

It makes you wonder if it was Rocky who said:

“One superintendent of a 4A school district responded, “Man this is important.   The board has cut everything they were willing to cut before we called the election.  If the TRE fails we are going to have a $600,000 budget deficit tomorrow evening.  With the required salary increases in 10/11 we are projecting starting the budget that provides the same level of services with a 1.8 million deficit – If this TRE fails we will cut programs and call another TRE next year.””

- Supers Have Election Day Jitters,” Joe Smith, TexasISD.com, November 3, 2009