Teacher Evaluations Get Exceedingly More Difficult

In 2010, many teachers were laid off based on a few factors, the first of which was certification, and the second was based on PDAS evaluations. This came as a surprise to many teachers because PDAS carried little or no weight to it in the past. Teachers have always wanted to be recognized for the hard work they do, but a few Proficients here and Exceeds there did not make the difference of deciding whether or not a long standing teacher lost their job. Now it does.

The Arrogance of FBISD Leadership

This article was published in the Fort Bend Star.  See the link below for the entire article.

The hubris of leadership....I am often astonished by the arrogance of some of our appointed and elected officials.
For example, I recently was informed that FBISD’s global center for science and technology was still on the drawing boards. I thought everyone agreed that in the economic climate of today, the science center was a program we did not have to have.
The global center for science and technology was FBISD’s answer to low science scores on the TAKS tests. Rather than throw a bunch of money at the classrooms, the district in its bid to build something it could name after somebody proposed a project that, except for its name, wasn’t going to do much for anybody, what with loading kids up and busing them several miles once or twice a semester so they could spend scant minutes at the center before loading on a bus and heading back to their home campus.
I had no idea the district was still kicking that ill-fated idea around until the board started talking about a bond election in order to not only build more schools, but of a more immediate nature, repair some schools in bad shape. Board members were informed that money still left over from previous bond issues was being saved for the science center rather than being used for current repairs.
Are you kidding me??? It is inconceivable to me that with as much controversy over the center in the first place that it would still be on the agenda.