Millionaires, who do not live in the district, are funding John Scott for Friendswood ISD.
This is what can and will happen when CCISD realigns the election of Trustees. John Scott is running for FISD. He has raised nearly $50,000 which is an incredible amount for a school board race especially one as small as FISD. FISD has 6065 students, 1 high school, 3 elementary schools, and 2 intermediate schools. CCISD, for comparison, has over 41,000 students at 45 schools. Candidates running for Trustee rarely spend more than $5000.
Of the $48,969 raised by Scott, $41,787 came from 2 millionaires who do not live in the district. $26,787 came from Senator Millionaire Mayes Middleton. $15,000 came from a millionaire out of Dallas, Montgomery Bennett. Of the remaining $7,182, $3,269 came from Scott himself, leaving $3,913 coming from other donors.
You can view Scott’s campaign finance reports here and here.
Scott Bowen, Corporal Chaos of CCISD was caught on camera. He was supporting the voucher scheme which will take more funding away from the district. He proudly authored a resolution at the State Republican Executive Committee (SREC) in support of “educational freedom”. That is code words for vouchers. The resolution goes on to demand Governor Abbott to place the issue as an “emergency item”. This should be done in the next legislation session coming in 2025. An emergency item has priority over all other bills.
Bowen has a history of advocating against public education as a Trustee of CCISD. Last year a formal grievance was filed against him. He used his position during a hearing in Austin to advocate against the school district’s board. His 3 minutes of fame was caught on camera. The bill eventually failed but he got his digs in.
Vouchers are very popular in the Republican Party. The voucher scheme will give parents $8000. This amount is much more than they pay in school taxes. It will partially pay for their kids private school tuition. It’s welfare for the wealthy. Private schools are very expensive. Only the wealthy, who are wealthy enough to not need a handout, can afford them. There is nothing good about vouchers.
According to the Houston Chronicle the Katy ISD School Board voted to give a MASSIVE incentive to teachers who pass their 5 year mark.
After five years of service teachers will be given $250, according to data from the district. In 10 years they’ll receive $500. The payments continue in increments until 50 years of service, at which point a teacher will receive a one-time payment of $3,000.
The response from teachers was overwhelming positive. “A one time payment of $3000 at the age of 75 will go a long way in paying for my funeral!”. “I cannot tell you the feelings I have about this. It is just overwhelming. I just want to go to the next school board meeting and thank each and everyone of them face to face.” “That $250 after 5 years will go a long way for me to pay for my school supplies for the next year.” “What the living fuck? $250? Is that all?”
Well you can’t really defend some of the teachers. They are republicans. They vote for republicans. They wanted MAGAts like Calhoun on the board. So they did this to themselves. They deserve this slap on the face as if it was money on the dresser. Unfortunately their stupidity also affected those who have worked hard to make our public school system better and not 47th in the nation for school funding. Texas teachers deserve better than this slap in the face.
For those who voted republican, enjoy that $50/year bonus. You truly deserve it.
And it’s bad enough the Houston Chronicle as well as all local media didn’t report on it. If a teacher had posted a picture like this the Chronicle would have been all over it. But now the Chronicle has woken up a bit.
Now Calhoun is taking fire (no pun intended) for her comments about tracking the immigration status of students. Even the MAGAts who supported her display of firearms as a Happy Easter post was critical of her ignorance of federal and state laws. From the Houston Chronicle story:
It is against state and federal law to ask the immigration status of a student, Superintendent Ken Gregorski noted.
Speakers at the Katy School Board meeting reminded Calhoun that the election held in early May had record turnout and Calhoun’s MAGAt buddies lost their races. Katy parents are not putting up with the takeover of Katy ISD. Calhoun is a Mexican MAGAt and was funded by a PAC that raised over a million dollars. It’s said that a Mexican American can be a MAGAt, one that supports a porn phucker, a liar, a cheater, a filthy human being like Donald Trump.
Maybe someone ought to ask if she is here legally.
The voucher program supported by our local state representatives is pretty simple to understand. The State will give $6000 to a family to send their kid to private school instead of public school. Guess who will pay for this?
You will. (Duh!) Let’s say that family pays $2000/year in school taxes and decides to take their kids out of public schools. They will receive $6000 from the state, $4000 MORE than what they put in. WTF? Why do we, those who pay school taxes, have to subsidize their decision to leave public schools? Look if vouchers are going to pass then those who want a voucher should never get more than they put in. That is also very simple to understand. That is what is called wealthy welfare.
Let’s just call vouchers what they really are. Welfare for the wealthy.
The out of state PAC, The Project 1776 PAC, has endorsed and are campaigning for, other candidates across Texas besides CCISD Trustee Jeff Larson.
According to their website candidates from 6 other Independent School Districts across Texas have applied for their endorsement. Three of those Katy ISD, CCISD, and Spring Branch ISD are in the Houston area. They are also campaigning for candidates in Alabama and Wisconsin.
In order to receive their endorsement candidates must apply and provide answers to divisive issues like their support of “CRT” the unicorn of school courses. They have to pledge their opposition to diversity, and “Social Emotional Learning” what ever the fuck that is. It’s clear these candidates are extreme, white wing, masters of disruption. That is who they are.
Nothing like celebrating Easter by posting a pic of your family on your Katy ISD Instagram account coddling the same type of weapon that killed 19 children in Uvalde, 27 christians in Sutherland Springs, 8 kids in Santa Fe, 5 police in Dallas, and 21 first graders in Sandy Hooks. PRAISE JESUS!
It make me want to yell WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? Seriously. What kind of a sick person does something like this? It’s bad enough KISD Trustee Morgan Calhoun has so little respect for a firearm. It’s bad enough she posted it on your KISD “Official Public” Instagram account. It’s bad enough that she used the holy day of Easter to do it. What the living hell is wrong with you?
Morgan has since removed the post, modified the pic and posted it to her personal Facebook page, which is still not appropriate, but at least it has nothing to do with KISD. Emails to the entire board asking if this is an appropriate post have been ignored. Emails to Morgan have been ignored. The only thing worse about posting such filth is being silent about it. The entire Board has been silent. At this point they are not only tolerating what she did, they are supporting what she did. KISD is also deleting comments on their Facebook page concerning School Safety Week and the posting of the AR15 pic.
Katy ISD made a quick response claiming her instagram account is her personal account but it clearly says “Official Public” and it is nothing but KISD information. If this is truly her personal account she needs to so state and keep KISD business off her page.
If a teacher had posted this they would have been fired. If a student had done this they would have been arrested for terrorist threats. If you would like to contact Trustee Calhoun and voice your opinion: morgancalhoun@katyisd.org. If you would like to address the Board the next meeting is April 22. You can sign up here: https://www.katyisd.org/Page/8011 And you can email the entire board at: victorperez@katyisd.org, amythieme@katyisd.org, dawnchampagne@katyisd.org, lanceredmon@kayisd.org, rebeccafox@katyisd.org, morgancalhoun@katyisd.org
This is what happens when you allow billionaires to meddle in public education. This is a post by a so called “christian”, a Mexican MAGAt, Morgan Calhoun, who was elected to the Katy ISD in 2023 with help from the oligarchs of Texas including local State Senator Money Mayes Middleton. According to the Katy Times a PAC called Texans for Educational Freedom financed the election of three members of the board. They all won. Morgan was one of those. The PAC raised $1.7 Million, with $1.5 Million coming from donors giving $10,000 or more. Middleton gave $50,000.
Morgan and I am assuming her husband are pretty proud of their pose with their guns, the type of guns used to slaughter 19 children in Uvalde. You would think they would be more sensitive to the situation. You would think they would be more “christian” especially on Easter Sunday. The pic has since been removed from her Katy ISD Instagram account.
KEEP is an organization in Katy dedicated to public education. Ten years ago we didn’t need organizations like this because most everyone had trust in our School Districts to do the right thing for students, teachers, and parents. Then the Scott Bowen’s of Texas began flooding our school board campaigns with partisan candidates and money.
Here in CCISD Bowen brought partisan politics into the classroom and it’s happening all across Texas. Billionaires began donating money to candidates, excessive amounts such as $150,000 to win three seats on the Keller ISD board. They all won. School board elections should cost, at most, $5000. $50,000 per candidate is obscene. Here in CCISD Bowen invited Defend Texas Liberty to participate in our school board elections. They are funded by two billionaires and was recently defunded after their leadership met with a known white supremacist. Their candidate lost.
When you don’t like what people are saying to you, simply delete the records.
I doubt anyone at CCISD would do something this stupid, well, maybe Scott Bowen, but no one else. Keller ISD is continuing their investigation into how a Dutch evangelical film crew was allowed into a high school without authorization from the School Board. The board member who gave them access to the school immediately resigned to spend more time with their attorney and several others are being asked to resign for their role in the scandal including Trustee Micah Young.
After the event was exposed Trustee Micah Young posted an apology to his Keller ISD Facebook page and was hammered by hundreds calling for his resignation. After nearly 600 comments with the overwhelming number calling for his resignation he simply deleted the apology and the comments.
There could be a problem with this. If he is using his page as part of his position (he is) then he must preserve the data under the Texas Open Records Act. Luckily the Texas Attorney General’s office is sympathetic to those who break the law so I doubt if they will take action but those filing a civil suit might be interested.
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