That's a question to get a lot of debate at tomorrow's monthly board briefing as two campuses -- Samuell and Spruce -- may well find themselves the district's first Year 5 Academically Unacceptable schools. Five other schools could find themselves...
Wanted to circle back around to the termination case of Kimball math teacher Sharon Toussaint. This case was supposed to be about using teacher CEI's to show them the door, but Education Commish Robert Scott ran a trick play. Toussaint...
This would be bigger news on this blog if not for that other little news event we've been wrestling with over here. But here's the lowdown: State Education Commissioner Robert Scott says DISD was wrong to terminate Sharon Toussaint, the...
Earlier we told you about former Kimball High math teacher Sharon Toussaint, who was one of a number of teachers fired in the latest round of reconstitution. Toussaint, you may recall, is fighting her termination which she contends -- and...
So I'm reading through some of the recently released Campus Data Packs that the district's number crunchers put out, and I noticed something odd that I wanted to put out before the group here for some discussion. Why aren't the...
We got the documents relating to the firing of teacher Sharon Toussaint, specifically the Hearing Examiner's decision, the board's decision to terminate and her Petition to state Education Secretary Robert Scott. The documents are interesting to goobers like me who...
Ah yes, the elusive black box "Classroom Effectiveness Index" is back in the news. Since we first started writing about these fuzzy CEI scores last fall they've taken on more and more significance within the district. Primarily, they're an important...
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