With only two recognized middle school campuses and one exemplary (Fort Settlement), all in Sugar Land, when will the FBISD school board begin to take seriously an emphasis on equity of resources in the district?
Get the 2007 campus accountability ratings at: http://www.fortbend.k12.tx.us/cmf/var/tidbits/Tidbits_parentlinks_20070808_1626.pdf
During the recent record bond election, central office district officials repeatedly emphasized the fact that bond monies would be targeted at numerous campuses throughout the district. This though seems to have contradicted the actual distribution of funding in the proposal with nearly two-thirds of the funding going to new schools, to the chagrin of older neighborhoods.
One area that would help alter this perception is the improvement of board representation across the district. During the recent election numerous representatives and community leaders endorsed the use of single-member districts for the increasing urbanization of FBISD. Currently, according to the recent bond rhetoric coming from the central office, the district is undergoing rapid growth and has become a minority - majority school district, which is not reflected through diversity on the Board of Trustees. As a matter of fact, the board has traditionally been controlled by one area of the community. If readers take a closer look at long-term spending over the last decade they would find the dollars following the board members home areas (mostly large Houston development projects). Is the current BOT or administration capable of addressing these needs as they change?
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