Good news for Kerrville
October 9th, 2006
The Texas Education Agency has reversed an earlier rating and given an “academically acceptable” rating to Tivy High School and the Kerrville Independent School District, according to a KISD news release.
This was a case of counting students who were assigned to Tivy High School because they were housed at the Kerr county Juvenile Detention Center.
The school and district were given an unacceptable rating because of completion rates for students housed at the Kerr County Juvenile Detention Center. Several students who didn’t graduate or complete a TEA-approved General Education Development program were from counties outside of Kerr, KISD Superintendent Dan Troxell said at a September board meeting.
It’s even better news for Texas education lobbyists:
In a September board meeting, Troxell told board members that the district had hired a Houston attorney to help Rep. Harvey Hildebran, R-Kerrville, draft legislation to modify the education agency’s system of rating schools and districts.
Don’t you think it’s a problem when an issue like this has to be resolved at the legislature (which meets only every two years to ensure responsive, good government) rather than dealt with sensibly by the district and TEA?
See also:
- Clearly thinking is not a requirement for school management (February 18th, 2010)
- But no guarantees about course availability (February 18th, 2010)
- So it’s not about reputation or prestige afterall (January 31st, 2010)
- Tell me this isn’t just politics (January 14th, 2010)
- Do you think he’ll write a book on successful management techniques? (December 29th, 2009)
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