HOUSTON — A former board member of Katy I.S.D. and the Texas Association of School Boards has called for a targeted federal judicial takeover of the Texas Education Agency (TEA), a ban or court-approved restrictions on any voucher program approved by the Texas Legislature, and the abolishment of the STAAR student accountability testing program.
George Scott, a retired community journalist and president of a major Harris County public policy nonprofit organization, says the actions are needed because the TEA has never been a “genuine friend of the genuine civil rights of Texas disadvantaged students statistically dominated by children of color in the three decades of its formal testing and accountability systems.”
Scott published his remarks and a substantial amount of historical data on the testing and accountability programs on his website Academic Equity Advocates (AEA) calling the TEA’s entire 30+ year track record of meeting the genuine needs of at-risk minority students “a tragic trail of academic deception.”
