By Jeanine McGregor & Janice VanCleave
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Texans by nature, design and heritage, are God-fearing, independent-minded, hard-working, individuals who stand for truth and justice. When Texas turned down the highly-suspect federal program, Common Core, yielding to its own educational goals, parents and community leaders heralded our independent choice, little did we know that traitors amongst us, a.k.a. some liberal-minded Texas school administrators and superintendents, had joined forces to implement behind our backs a similar program, CSCOPE. 
That, at the very least, was raw, untested, and poorly designed, and at the most was a highly-restrictive management framework, dipped in radical ideology, meant to control our children’s academic futures using fear and intimidation.
True Texans from across the state are waking up and speaking out. The following is the first in a series of articles from individuals across Texas, meant to reveal the truth and empower the individual so that together we can stand up and say, “We’re from Texas. We don’t like being lied to and we don’t ‘cotton to you messin’ with our children.”
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Is This Happening At Your School?
By Janice VanCleave
CSCOPE is not gone, it has just changed names. The 20 Texas Education Service Centers are a true example of morphism.
What was set up as 20 regional agencies to provide “affordable” and free quality educational services to school districts has morphed into a 20 headed monster with appendages it can shed, much like a lizard can lose its tail and keep on going.
Severing the limb containing the CSCOPE Lessons was a minor setback. The lessons were not lost. Instead they are now snugly set in place in school districts with administrators dedicated to continuing this covert cause to remove parents from being a part of their children’s education; dedicated to continuing to set the educational bar so low that every student learns at an equally low level; dedicated to continue bullying teachers making them so fearful of losing their jobs that they must teach in secret — when the administrators, the CSCOPE Management CZARS, leave the school building.
Sounds very melodramatic doesn’t it? Sadly, it is true.
But because it is so absolutely absurd for administrators to be working toward a goal that results in students failing the state tests, it is difficult to get people to believe that this is true. It is difficult for people to believe that Texas Education 
Agencies are purposely creating CSCOPE Instructional Materials with an ulterior goal of establishing a Controlling Management System.
But it has happened and has been very successful. The 20 ESCs are in control of most of the Texas Public Schools because they are in control of the administrators in these schools.
WATCH NOW: SBOE Ad Hoc CSCOPE Review Committee Hearing – September 13, 2013
[Archive Video Part 1]
Parents have bought into the sales pitch that the schools should provide RIGOR so that their children pass the STATE STAAR/EOC TESTS.
I doubt that parents have a clue as to what rigor is all about. Teachers seem equally uninformed. Who introduced the idea that the STAAR/EOCs TESTs would have more RIGOR and that the new TEKS have more RIGOR, thus curriculum with RIGOR is needed? The answer is from TEA! Yes, the Texas Education System–TEA. I asked TEA representatives about RIGOR-its definition and requirements. The answer was that TEA gave the ESCs approximately $200 MILLION dollars to provide materials, workshops, and website articles for Texas Educators.
YES. TEA GAVE THE 20 ESCS, WHO CREATED CSCOPE, MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS and thus far not one person, as far as I know, has demanded to know what they did with this money.
I know that they did not fulfill the specifications listed in the Rider 42 grant that provided the money. So why were they paid? Why does TEA continue to give the 20 ESCs money when these agencies are doing everything they can to 
transform Texas Schools so that the students will not be taught facts needed for academic advancement?
Instead, The ESCs are transforming the instruction in Texas Schools so that students are learning social technology (Tweeting and developing Facebook pages), questioning the social, moral, patriotic, and religious values of parents.
Parents, if you are concerned about your child passing the state STAAR/EOC Tests, I suggest that you find out if collecting testing data is the focus of your school. Find out if the following describes how your children are being “educated.”
CSCOPE promotes that all children have an ‘equal education,’ thus the need for a one-size-fits-all instructional material and assessments. This is the definition of social learning — more appropriately called Socialism.
CSCOPE promotes leveling the playing field for all students. This eliminates challenging students who are at different levels. The argument that every student must be on the same page at the same time so that kids can move from one location and not lose ground is a questionable motive. Don’t be lured to the ‘rocks of destruction’ by the songs of the Social Education Progressive Sirens.
Parents, any school, using ESC/CSCOPE material, has administrators that are lying to you. I have read and evaluated every elementary CSCOPE lesson and assessment. This instruction material does not align with the state standards called TEKS because the content of the CSCOPE instruction material is not all correct.
There are many errors that are carried from one grade to the next. Last year teachers had to teach to the CSCOPE assessments, in doing this these teachers were teaching incorrect information.
Parents, the problems in Texas Education will be corrected when you demand it.
Jeanine McGregor (right), known to most in the Texas Education Debate as ”Ms. Mac”, is an Award-Winning Teacher, an educational researcher, and an author-publisher as CEO of Character of American Productions. She is also producer of Ms. Mac’s Schoolhouse, and the innovative “Ms. Mac TV” Program.
Janice VanCleave (left) is an internationally-known author, as well as a Science Teacher from Riesel, Texas, who blogs on the Texas CSCOPE Review.
