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CSCOPE …..6.1 MILLION UNACCOUNTED FOR… DOES YOUR LEGISLATOR CARE?

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In light of the Cscope Audit released by the Texas Attorney General’s office 6/14, it is apparent that our Texas Education Service Centers are negligent with their our tax dollars. The report verified that there is 6.1 Million unaccounted for. Do our Texas legislators care? As for as I know no one has been held accountable and we keep shoveling money their direction with no oversight. This is ludicrous and needs to STOP!

We have 2 Cscope directors (Ervin Knezek and Wade Labay)  and other Cscope employee’s that have left ESC X III (home of Cscope)  and have created their own business called Lead4ward.  They now are selling their services back to the ESC’s and school district for thousands on top of thousands of dollars. ESC XIII has even funneled money to this company owned by their former employees. Seems like a conflict of interest to me. You may wonder where this business is located. Well just like Cscope it has no official business office or address. The Secretary of State has the business address in a Residence in Austin, Texas. John Fessenden also a former ESC XIII employee has partnered with Ervin Knezek in forming Lead4ward.

Wade Labay was the Cscope director during the Cscope Senate hearings during the 83rd Legislature defending the product.

150 Million was given to Texas Education for professional development PD) through the Rider 42 Professional Development Grants. Millions were given to the ESC’s to train district teachers. Seems strange that Ervin Knezek and Fessenden would need to sell (PD) to the ESC’s and school districts after they were trained to implement PD through the ESC’s to districts.  Texas taxpayers are being ripped off!!

 

 

Cscope is still being sold to school districts by the name TEKS RESOURCE SYSTEM. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

 

 

 

****After reading this I am sure the ESC directors and the other powers at be will be traveling to Austin to suck up to legislators, staying is plush hotels, eating at the nicest restaurants all on the back of the taxpayer’s dime. You can bet on it! Texas Education is a Cash Cow for the powers at be and the children and teachers suffer.

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Cscope, Yes we are still talking about it! ESC’s not to be Trusted!

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Yes we are still talking about it. Cscope is the Marxist curriculum that was found to be in 80% of Texas School Districts. Cscope came under heavy scrutiny in the 2013 Texas Legislative session, after finding it riddled with controversial material.  The ESC’s made an agreement with Senator Dan Patrick to pull the Cscope lessons only to put them into the public domain and exploring any and every avenue possible to keep the lessons in the school district. ESC 13 has sold zip drives of Cscope lessons to school districts. See photo below of Gorman ISD check register:

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 The passage of SB 1406 called for putting the Cscope lessons under the purview of the State Board of Education and the passage of SB 1474 calling for new curriculum or new management systems to be put through a formal process of adoption before implementation. The ESC’s are not to happy with the legislative actions and hired a law firm  Walsh, Anderson, Gallegos, Green and Trevino, PC, (paid with tax dollars, must be nice) and attorney Haley Turner   put together the following power point. For me the power point only solidified the arrogance of the ESC directors and their determination in transforming Texas Schools and keeping Cscope within the Texas School System. (I thought Cscope was to be known as TEKS Resource System?)

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Mason Moses, chief communications officer with ESC 13 sent me the following email below. Though I question some of his statements knowing this particular law firm is in bed with the ESC’s and the progressive Texas Education Industry.

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I found the following video on ESC 13’s website confirming the ESC were involved in this. Ed Vera from ESC 13 introduces Haley Turner.

 

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Education is about Money, Power and Ideology not STUDENTS

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Texas Education Service Center XIII located out of Austin has been the hub of the financial part of CSCOPE. Here is a link to their 2011 990. Take Notice their gross receipts were 66,269.048. These same guys along with their cronies still salivate for additional funding from the State legislature all on “behalf of the kids.” As I have said and will continue to say, the education industry in Texas is not about students but MONEY, POWER and ideology. Aside from the kids suffering from this America will pay for it as well. 

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