Still searching for the good, the ugly and bad are easy to find.
There was a time when one could expect some exaggeration, but now anything coming out of the mouth of the MAGA party, AKA Republican Party, is exceedingly exaggerated or outright lies. That includes the MAGA person who was placed as dictator (Overseer) over HISD.
As I read an editorial opinion from the Houston Comical, the picture that I envisioned as they described the method of evaluating teachers was one of a slave plantation.
“Teachers specifically feel very over monitored and fearful,” says Lea Mishlan, the former West Briar Middle School principal who was told to resign or be fired at the end of the year. Expectations coming down from central office were constantly shifting, she told us Friday, and as principal it was her job to enforce them, popping in and out of classrooms for on-the-spot coaching while still encouraging creativity. “We were in their rooms constantly,” Mishlan recalled. Source
Those great numbers that Miles (Overseer) threw out to embellish his self-admitted accomplishment seem to have come from HISD’s method of determining school grades.
We never did get official state ratings for 2023thanks to a lawsuit that challenged the implementation of a stricter ratings regimebut the district said it used the state’s data and methodology to calculate its own. Source
Below is the entire paragraph from which the above quote was taken. When even the editorial staff, not known for its intelligence, can figure that there may be something funny about Miles’s numbers, then Houston, we have a problem.
Turnover aside, Miles has touted the first-year results as the start ofsignificant progress. Test scores went up, particularly at the NES schools. And preliminary state ratings show a vast improvement across the district. We never did get official state ratings for 2023thanks to a lawsuit that challenged the implementation of a stricter ratings regimebut the district said it used the state’s data and methodology to calculate its own. Using those unofficial ratings and this year’s state ratings, HISD saw the number of D and F-rated schools drop from 121 to 41 while the number of A and B-rated schools went from 93 to 170.It’s hard to get an apples to apples comparison on the ratings, in part, because of the difficulties of the COVID years and the stricter ratings, but compared to, say, 2019, the changes aren’t so dramatic: only 50 schools were D or F-rated then. Source
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