Albright seeks to unseat incumbent Menendez on FBISD board.

Fort Bend Independent School District Board of Trustee At-Large Position 4 incumbent Daniel Menendez and Position 1 incumbent Susan Hohnbaum have filed for re-election in the May 14 election. Bruce Albright has announced his intention to run against Menendez.



Why not Menendez?  Here's what others are saying.  Find out what's been going on in Fort Bend and that ought to be enough to get someone out of their seats and voting in this election.

...wanted to take a moment to address a comment below by a poster who quoted some erroneous information about district performance. As a current teacher I know the AEIS data included the “Texas Project Measure” which inflated scores across the state. I have access to my raw scores not included in the TAKs or AEIS reporting system and we had minimal improvement in some areas but not nearly what is being claimed by the superintendent. Further if you look at the NCEA (ACT national data) you will find that FBISD lost 10 school from the high performing list from 21 listed in 2009 and they had to appeal to be a recognized district. That combined with the huge bond debt they carry and the budget crisis that has been going on for several years now under this leadership, one would no better than to support the incumbent in this race. As a matter of fact, it would be a foolish decision to support Mr. Menendez. I even surprised he decided to run again. I also notice when I searched your name that you were on the board too and voted for increased spending on the Global Science Center, voted to raise our property taxes while running several budget deficits and then you left the school board after one term. I’m not sure if I was on the school board that I would want the endorsement of such a character.

FBISD BOT Daniel Menendez incument has fail to improve FBISD hispanic students education . We voters are go to elect new leadership of FBISD cand. Bruce Albright. FBISD has voters has fail to elect good leadership in previous FBISD elections of three years.

Who is Albright?

http://www.brucealbright.com/
Bruce Albright has announced his intentions to seek the at large position 4 seat on the FBISD board of trustees. Bruce is a longtime resident of FBISD and raised two children in the school system with his wife teaching in the district for over 19 years. He has served as a volunteer teaching Sunday school for over two decades and has given a great deal of time over the last few years to bringing attention to funding issues in the school district.


If elected, Bruce will focus his attentions on the severe budget crisis the district is facing and work to bring more openness and transparency to the central office. “Restoring the board as the supervising body for the district is paramount in this campaign”, says Albright. He goes on to say, “during times like these we must have community support to be able to continue improvements in the academic programming while simultaneously reducing extraneous spending and better aligning our processes of service delivery. We must be more responsive to the needs of the public and remember at all times, it is they who are paying for all this. The days of deliberate public deception by governmental agencies and their operatives must end during these tough times we now face.”

Mr. Albright has an extensive work history in sales, business and personnel management and has worked on staffing issues including “turn around” operations. He is known as a problem finder and solver, which is a much needed characteristic these days. He graduated from UCF in 1978 with a degree in Business & Personnel Management and has an extensive history of related work experiences.

Bruce says, “I expect in the coming year, FBISD will need a fresh new prospective in dealing with fiscal responsibility in funding problems, staffing, and student population growth.  They are going to need someone who can look from the “outside~ in”, not the “inside-out”, and think outside the box for a change. For far too long the special interests have determined how our money is spent and not the taxpayer, teachers, parents and families of our community. We now face a budget crisis building over the last few years that demands the involvement and support of the public.”