TEA supervisors exist to ensure that AISD acts as the nation wishes. (Art: Zeke Barbaro/Getty Images)
of Texas Education Agency has appointed two monitors to work with Austin ISD to improve the district’s special education department.Last week, TEA Commissioner mike moras A letter was sent to AISD as follows: sherry marsh and Letha Shockley Monitors district progress and reports to TEA.
Mr. Marsh and Mr. Shockley are part of the AISD interim superintendent agreement. Matias Segura The agreement allows AISD officials to continue working on backlogged special education services under the supervision of a warden, rather than appointing a conservatorship who can fire district employees and hire others. You will be able to do this. From outside the district.
In addition to serving as a facilitator, the new monitor should help AISD achieve the goals set out in the September agreement with TEA.
In addition to serving as mediators, Marsh and Shockley will help AISD meet the goals set out in the September agreement. They assist in drafting assessments of how the district governs, conduct on-site inspections of special education services, assist with external audits of services, and assist in implementing corrective action plans agreed to by the district. Masu.
I could find little public information about Mr. Marsh and Mr. Shockley, but both have long careers in public education. Mr. Marsh worked at the Region 20 Educational Service Center in southwest San Antonio for more than 20 years. The center is a subdivision of his TEA that helps school districts comply with agency rules. She currently serves as a consultant to Marsh on how to promote its compliance with her consulting services.
Shockley has worked as an administrator in several North Texas school districts. She has been a director of television specials for the past seven years. Mansfield ISD. In July, she was appointed executive director of special services for conservatives. Grapevine – Colleyville A school district located between Dallas and Fort Worth.
Grapevine-Colleyville is one of the main battlegrounds in the culture wars currently engulfing school districts across the state. The school’s board last year passed a series of policies restricting teachers from talking about race, gender and sexuality in the classroom and forcing trans students to use the bathroom of the gender assigned to them at birth. The new rules also prohibit the teaching of critical race theory (something not taught in high schools anyway) and make it easier to ban books.
A new podcast about political struggles in Grapevine-Colleyville was released on October 4th. grapevineThis is the work of mike hixenbaugh and antonia hiltonby the same NBC reporter south lakeThis article told a very similar culture war story in a school district just up the road from Grapevine-Colleyville. south lake It won a Peabody Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. It did not have a positive impact on the Southlake community.
Shockley plans to continue working at Grapevine-Colleyville while fulfilling his duties as an AISD supervisor. She and Marsh both receive $125 an hour for their work, which is billed to us taxpayers, along with travel reimbursement. Neither is expected to attend Thursday’s council meeting.
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