[CSPS] March 22 CSISD trustees' meeting

[Gene and Maggie Charleton]

CSISD Trustees' Meeting

March 22, 2005

 

            Public education as we know it will cease to exist if HB 2 is
enacted into law, CSISD superintendent Steve Johnson told the school board
and others attending the trustees' meeting Tuesday evening.

 

            Johnson said he met with representatives of more than 40 other
"Chapter 41"  school districts Monday in Austin, and they agreed that they
would prefer continuing under the current unsatisfactory funding situation
to having HB 2 become law. He urged school board members and the audience to
keep in touch with what is going on in Austin. He also thanked Rep. Fred
Brown for breaking ranks with his Republican colleagues to vote against HB
2.

 

            The trustees also:

 

            Adopted health, art, theater, choir, orchestra and music
textbooks;

 

            Heard a report of the school district's compliance with the
federal "No Child Left Behind" law;

 

Recognized 2005 National Merit Scholars, members of the district's winning
Science Bowl teams and a student musician who was awarded a first chair
position in the All State Band;

 

Gave formal notice of the May 7 school board election; and

 

Approved the district's academic calendar for the 2005-2006 school year.

 

Health textbooks adopted were (for grades 1-4) Harcourt; (for middle school)
Holt, Rinehart and Winston; (for high school) Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

 

CSISD is meeting current requirements of the No Child Left Behind
legislation, but the makeup of the student body will make this impossible in
the future. The legislation has a "99% rule" for participation. That means
that 99% of students in the district must take the TAKS or local assessments
at grade level. At present, the number of students in the autistic and life
skills programs (who do not take grade level assessments) is greater than
the 1% allowed by the legislation. Other students, who take assessments at
lower than their grade levels because of ARD committee decisions, push the
number higher.

 

This provision of the legislation conflicts with state requirements and
existing federal IDEA legislation. No one suggested how this might be
rectified.

 

The board recognized 10 National Merit Scholars from A&M Consolidated High
School and 15 students who participated in teams that competed in the
regional Science Bowl in February at Texas A&M. CSISD  team #1 placed first
among the 28 teams in the competition. Team #2 placed third and team #3
placed among the top eight teams. The winning team will advance to national
competition in April in Washington, D.C.

 

Respectably submitted,

 

Gene Charleton

________________________________

Gene and Maggie Charleton

1611 Treehouse Trail

College Station, Texas 77845

charletons at cox.net

979.694.9285

 

 


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