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Comment on Happy Birthday, Dad by Marianne Rochelle

Marianne Rochelle — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:56:25 +0000

Beautiful rays of sunshine in yellow. Happy Birthday to E’s daddy!
Marianne

Comment on More Again: East Austin College Prep & SW Key by Maria

Maria — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:18:56 +0000

Yes, we know that the administration did the best they could in the face of southwest key’s pressure. It may seem that Dr. G or principles were in the wrong but as a parent that was at the campus every day in the fall semester, I can tell you that the budget cuts came from southwest keys. I still do not understnad how southwest key can possibly have a say in the budget of the school??? I trust Dr. Gonzales but I know that if he fought everything, Southwest Keys would just fire him and continue what they were doing, only worse.

Comment on More Again: East Austin College Prep & SW Key by Mary

Mary — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:28:21 +0000

Exactly what we thought, Dr. Sanchez is finding every way possible to take over EACPA. The school scores are not a reflection of the superintendent. It’s a reflection of the hold Southwest Key has on EACPA. They are the ones who cut the budget, and dismiss teachers. It’s also not the principals fault. You are right the student came in not performing at their grade level. Once again the number of tutors and teachers is all depent on the budget. patents as myself voiced our concerns at Board meeting, and they were not acted on. So please don’t try to misguide the community by redirecting the short falls of EACPA on the administration level it still fall under the lack of leadership of the EACPA school board. Dr. Sanchez just need to stop trying to illegally manage EACPA so they can flourish.

Comment on More Again: East Austin College Prep & SW Key by Juan

Juan — Fri, 17 May 2013 01:44:06 +0000

Juan Sanchez will soon take over the Jain Lane campus as superintendent or in some other official or unofficial capacity. The Jain Lane (sw keys) campus was given virtually no support this school year bc district leadership could not properly lead two campuses no matter what they may clame. It had a principal and teachers but no other full time administrators or specalists. All other staff has other obligations at the MLK campus and/or district wide duty. The superintendent and his consultant(s) spent >95% of there time at other campus. Over 70% of the tutors were stationed at the other campus. Tutor coordinator had no experience (was a tutor last year). Superintendent secretary had no education experience (was a tutor last year). Even now, the MLKs campus has two full time disciplinarians to help there principal, no other duties assigned to them, while the Southwest Key campus remains with only the principal, a handful of tutors, and part time administrators with other district wide duties. At the previous board meeting, two people were allowed to attend closed executive session in violation of the open meetings act. The superintendent is currently shifting all blame to the southwest keys campus principal and claming no knowledge of the goings on at that campus despite his position as superintendent. Students at the southwest key campus scored at the 2nd grade level in September on their stanfour tens test. No wonder so many failed the STAAR test. Even after scoring at the 2nd grade level, no resources were shifted to southwest key. Instead three techers were removed over christmas break. The tutors and “consultants” (some of who receive money but never do anything) remained at MLK. The southwest key principal will be their scapegoat. Certain people know the truth how 3/4 resources were at mlk, how teachers at sw key campus received no instructional support beyond there one administrator, how the superintendent and consultant(s) approved 5th grade departmentalization in August but then fakd ignorance once it became unpopular, how all the attention went to mlk, etc. Southwest keys campus had 100% new students fresh from Austin’s isd and they did not receive the attention all year although repeated requests made from southwest key campus’ admin and teachers. This is undeniable. Just look at staff allocation today, yesterday, in december, in september, etc. An at risk campus requires first teachers at a 25-1 or lower ratio (6th grade is at 31-1 right now), it requires teacher assistants, it requires instructional specialists, it requires counselours, it requires assistant principal(s), it requires coaches, etc. Test scores = accurate reflection of resoucrses devoted to the campus despite heroic efforts on parts of teachers and principal.

Comment on More Again: East Austin College Prep & SW Key by Mary

Mary — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:18:02 +0000

Just wondering if anyone had updates on EACPA’s latest board meeting?

Comment on Rejecting a Friend Request by Justin

Justin — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:47:38 +0000

I realized Facebook was the devil a few years ago during the health care reform debate. The ignorance on Facebook drove me crazy.

It wasn’t always my friends, but posts by friends of friends would show up in my feed and put me into a tizzy.

An alternative is to accept friend requests from people you know you will disagree with, but then hide their posts from showing up on your screen.

I just decided to stay off Facebook altogether for the sake of my health.

Comment on More on East Austin College Prep & Southwest Key by More Again: East Austin College Prep & SW Key | Community Matters

More Again: East Austin College Prep & SW Key | Community Matters — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:00:25 +0000

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Comment on More on East Austin College Prep & Southwest Key by Maria

Maria — Fri, 10 May 2013 00:04:31 +0000

When I enrolled my child, I was many times about the class sizes and about programs to be offered. I was disappointed too many times and I feel let down by an organization who says to represent my community (I am an Eastside parent). All of my child’s classes had over thirty students in them. The last straw came over the Christmas break when they fired 4 or 5 teachers (other parents have told me that they fire teachers every christmas). When I spoke to administraters about this issue they told me that southwest keys president Juan Sanchez has ordered budget cuts. Apparently the sanchez is president of the eacp school board as well as being president of southwest key. I do not see how the president of the organization that charges eacp rent and management fees can be president of the school board of a school he is directly profiting from?? Also I too have seen eacp grant members wearing southwest key shirts and working out of southwest key offices.

Comment on East Austin Charter School by More on East Austin College Prep & Southwest Keys | Community Matters

More on East Austin College Prep & Southwest Keys | Community Matters — Thu, 09 May 2013 14:09:26 +0000

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Comment on East Austin College Prep & Southwest Keys by More on East Austin College Prep & Southwest Keys | Community Matters

More on East Austin College Prep & Southwest Keys | Community Matters — Thu, 09 May 2013 14:09:22 +0000

[…] Matters) More parents’ comments coming in concerned about Southwest Key’s stewardship of East Austin College […]