All across Texas, school districts are using their “strategic plan” to drive organizational transformation, to include new learning environments, new learning standards, and assessments and new accountability for students and their teachers.
We’ve got two sides who want power and control over our children and who profit off our children and their teacher’s private personal data, mined in Texas classrooms.
This is an open letter to my local school board, who will be voting if they will move forward to become a District of Innovation (DOI) Dear Argyle ISD School Board, I will not be able to attend the school board meeting on September 19th. I was previously scheduled to speak in East Texas on […]
“Deliberative Democracy” is NOT a phrase to refer to a culture that allows deliberation and discussion of individual ideas. “Deliberative Democracy” “seeks the formation of a consensus view of shared interests and common goods.”
Today we are seeing a transformation in education where schools, not individual students are being held accountable. Our children are being set up to fail by the state and federal government. Are we going to sit by and let it happen?
My name is Alice Linahan and I am a parent in Argyle ISD. I need your help to get our local school board to look at the issue of what private data is being collected on our children and what type of testing and assessments will be done during class activities which are monitoring and tracking our children.
