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Attached are articles found online that might be of interest...related to SAISD and our new superintendent and efforts to privatize SAISD schools (vouchers). The collection is not complete, but you might want to give it a peek.
School Choice Tradeoffs
Liberty, Equity, and Diversity
By R. Kenneth Godwin and Frank R. Kemerer
We owe a strong debt of gratitude to many organizations and individuals who have assisted us in the research leading up to this book. First, we thank the U.S. Department of Education; the Spencer Foundation; and the Covenant, Ewing Halsell, and USAA foundations in San Antonio for funding the San Antonio School Choice Research Project. Encompassing a multifaceted look at both public and private school choice, the study was conducted under the auspices of the Center for the Study of Education Reform at the University of North Texas from 1992 to 1996. Both the Children's Educational Opportunity (CEO) Program in San Antonio, which sponsored the private school choice program there, and the San Antonio Independent School District were willing participants. We are especially grateful to Robert Aguirre, director of the CEO program, and to the San Antonio I.S.D. school board and the two superintendents we worked with, Victor Rodriguez and Diana Lam, for their cooperation and support. We also thank the Spencer Foundation for funding the toleration study, whose findings are reported in Chapter 2, and the National Center for the Study of Education Reform at Teachers College, Columbia University, for underwriting part of the research on the legal aspects of privatization reported in Chapter 7. Our commissioned research paper for the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences facilitated our understanding of the likely policy outcomes of different types of choice policies. We thank the John Templeton Foundation for providing funding for us, together with our colleague Richard Ruderman, to teach a unique interdisciplinary course on educating the liberal democratic citizen that enabled us to think through many of the topics discussed in this book. Finally, we are indebted to Chancellor Alfred Hurley and the University of North Texas both for financial support and encouragement throughout this research.
On his first day, SAISD's Durón motivates, tells his expectations to staff
Web Posted: 07/31/2006 11:09 PM CDT Durón's business approach to running the school district became evident early on in his meeting with the administrators. He gave the team two weeks to read "The Five Temptations of a CEO," and up next is "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team."
As chief executive officers of their own departments, he told the administrators, they should resist the temptation to put their jobs before the good of the district and to be popular among staffers instead of holding them accountable. He extolled transparency, which, he said, means admitting the district's weaknesses and not trying to hide them.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA080106.1B.duron.17fabdc.html
Committee has spared 2 schools — for now
Web Posted: 03/09/2007 02:08 AM CST
Michelle M. Martinez
Express-News
Their Fair Share: How Texas-Sized Gaps in Teacher Quality Shortchange Poor and Minority Students, the latest in a series from The Education Trust, documents sometimes stunning inequities in teacher credentials, teacher experience, teacher turnover and average teacher salaries among schools within the 50 largest Texas school districts. It also describes how these inequities stack the deck against the educational success of low-income students and students of colour throughout the state.
http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=16430
SAISD aiming to fix overcrowding
Web Posted: 09/03/2007 12:04 AM CDT
Michelle De La Rosa
Express-News
This year, the San Antonio Independent School District is busy dealing with an old irony: Student enrollment is dropping, but classes in some schools are overcrowded.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA090307.01B.SAISDEnrollmentCap.3431749.html
http://collegereadytexas.org/board.html THE TEXAS COLLEGE READINESS PROCESS
Donna Garner
Education Policy Commentator EdNews.org
INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT
First, let me say that I have been confused about the convoluted process through which Texas is developing "college readiness" standards; and I believe other people may also be confused. So many different groups, councils, commissions, acronyms, legislative bills, reviewers, teams, etc. have been involved that I am afraid the whole process has begun to run together in people's minds.
http://ednews.org/articles/20134/1/THE-TEXAS-COLLEGE-READINESS-PROCESS/Page1.html
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