“The Texas Education Agency announced [Thursday of last week] that A-F ratings would be paused for 2020-21 school year due to the ongoing disruptions associated with COVID-19. The STAAR test will proceed for the 2020-21 school year in order to provide critically important information about individual student learning that teachers and parents can use to help students grow. For those schools that incorporate STAAR results into teacher evaluations, TEA is providing flexibility to allow them to remove that component this school year,” a press release read.
Questions flow.
Wasn’t the specific justification for suspending laws and regulations in Texas specifically to slow the spread of a virus or, in a few cases to get material and supply to healthcare providers?
When did the suspension of laws and rules become about protecting government employees from having to deal with potentially bad news about the performance of their jobs? Is this not exactly what the suspension of school ratings from being published to parents and taxpayers is?
TEA is using the COVID virus as an excuse to hide government performance from parents and taxpayers…
How about the removal of testing performance from teacher evaluations? How does that mitigate the spread of a virus?
How many of you, put out of work or business by Abbott’s orders as well as those of local mayors and judges, can waltz down to a bank and be given a big loan to make it through these tough times but do so while telling the loan officer that given the disruptions of the year you don’t have to turn over any of your financial performance numbers?
TEA is using the COVID virus as an excuse to hide government performance from parents and taxpayers simply because it has been a “disruptive” year. None of these matters have anything to do with mitigating the spread of a virus and yet are being justified by COVID.
Unacceptable.
P.S. Maybe we should be able to simply declare, COVID emergency and all, that we will withhold part of our school property taxes for the 2020-21 school year because of the disruptions we’ve been forced to live and work through.
Texas Education Agency takes abuse of COVID “emergency” to new lows
Questions flow.
Wasn’t the specific justification for suspending laws and regulations in Texas specifically to slow the spread of a virus or, in a few cases to get material and supply to healthcare providers?
When did the suspension of laws and rules become about protecting government employees from having to deal with potentially bad news about the performance of their jobs? Is this not exactly what the suspension of school ratings from being published to parents and taxpayers is?
TEA is using the COVID virus as an excuse to hide government performance from parents and taxpayers…
How about the removal of testing performance from teacher evaluations? How does that mitigate the spread of a virus?
How many of you, put out of work or business by Abbott’s orders as well as those of local mayors and judges, can waltz down to a bank and be given a big loan to make it through these tough times but do so while telling the loan officer that given the disruptions of the year you don’t have to turn over any of your financial performance numbers?
TEA is using the COVID virus as an excuse to hide government performance from parents and taxpayers simply because it has been a “disruptive” year. None of these matters have anything to do with mitigating the spread of a virus and yet are being justified by COVID.
Unacceptable.
P.S. Maybe we should be able to simply declare, COVID emergency and all, that we will withhold part of our school property taxes for the 2020-21 school year because of the disruptions we’ve been forced to live and work through.