(9) Advisory: Substantive Data Relaunch Columns Remain on Home Page Today; Will Use This Approach Giving New Readers Easy Access to Going Forward

By George Scott * 281-818-7872

Project Director, Academic Equity Advocates * ghscott2050@aol.com

The first eight columns published in the April 15 relaunch of Academic Equity Advocates (AEA) are the ‘heart and soul and substance’ of the story of the Texas Education Agency and the State’s political structure to allow and enforce a 30-year history of an academically compromised student testing and accountability program.

In one way, we have targeted civil rights attorneys and organizations along with local, state, and national news media as our ‘Hail Mary pass” prime goal for readership. However, as the website transitions to direct advocacy, the same information including data and analysis in the first eight columns is rank and file parents and community leaders’ best path to understanding in Texas public education and testing.

This week, AEA progresses to adding real substance to the “ADVOCACY” mission of the website. However, we don’t want new readers to lose sight of easy access to the substance and the details made available in our first eight columns.

In those columns, we raised grave findings; provided stark raw data; and addressed harsh analysis of the TEA’s three decades of manipulation of the integrity of its testing and accountability systems.

AEA accomplishes that by recycling a post with direct links to these columns and data records from our April 15 relaunch.

Edit Post “(1)TEA’s Race-Based ‘Smoking Gun’ Testing Performance Standards in Transition To TAKS Confirmed Grave Reservations of Critics” ‹ Academic Equity Advocates

(2) AEA Goals for What Needs to Happen: Federal Judicial Takeover of TEA; Defeat or Radically Alter Abbott’s Corrupt Vouchers Scheme; Abolish Corrupt STAAR Testing; Impose Diagnostic Testing

(3) Tracking The Actual, Documented History of 3 Decades of TEA’s Dishonest Academic Corruption Harming Children Dominated by Children of Color

(4) Most Recent 2022-23 STAAR Results Confirm Manipulation of Grade Level Standards Won’t Cover Up Academic Tragedy Many Disadvantaged Children

(5) Using The Last Year (2018-19) Before COVID, Note Profound Achievement Gaps for At-Risk Kids in Grades 3-8 in 64 ISDs in Texas

(6) A More Comprehensive Look at Achievement Gaps from 2018-19 and 2021-22 Statewide, Every Region of Texas, & 30 Representative School Districts

(7) Will Katy ISD Superintendent & School Board Provide Student Performance Data That Tells the Whole Story? Not Yet!

(8): Here’s Context for Why the Data Published or Sought in the Columns Above Is Important to Understand What’s Happened!