Debbie Ratcliffe
Debbie Ratcliffe
history improves performance state throughout
If history is an indicator, our performance throughout the state improves every year.
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If recapture is in place still this fall and, if they haven't shared their wealth as they are required to do by law, then they become subject under Texas law to detachment and annexation, or consolidation.
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That certainly is not much of a consensus as when you have a 7-1 or 6-1 vote. And I know the board vote weighs heavily in that (TEA's) decision.
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These are issues that we're still trying to work through. It may depend on what the U.S. Department of Education tells us about how to treat them.
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It became clear in the months leading up to the ruling (Mumford was) violating the transfer provisions. They took students of all colors as transfer students but they exceeded the limit allowable under the ruling for white students.
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The parents and teachers need to know their reading scores in the next two weeks so that they can get some additional help or remedial intervention for those who didn't pass.