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No New Taxes Dear Editor: Our CISD board is asking us to approve a tax increase to fund a CISD Police Department and raise money for teacher and staff pay increases. It’s about time they got a raise! I’d like to see them get more possibly, so we can retain the best.
Read moreI recently attended a superintendent meeting at Region Four in Houston and saw a presentation from the Charles Butt Foundation concerning the path forward in Education. Feeling undervalued, underpaid, and overworked, large numbers of Texas teachers have left or are seriously considering leaving the profession. Teacher attrition has increased each year in Texas and Columbus ISD has not been spared.
Read moreIn Colorado County there is a small community known as Oak Grove. By its name you know that it is a beautiful, quaint-looking settlement and if you have ever been there perhaps you, too, have searched for the legendary white horse as did children at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of this one.
Read moreI had a dream that I was five years old again and was in my kindergarten class, sitting on the big blue carpet in my teacher’s classroom.
Read moreEagle Lake Remembers
Read moreTEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
Read moreIn most schools, you have that one guy. That one guy at the school who is always in control and the nicest person on campus. Here at Texas ChalleNGe Academy, that honor goes to our principal Mr. Mahone. So, in recognition of National Principal Appreciation Month, I’d like to tell you about him.
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