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Cscope Debacle…. Texas State Audit Report Released

Jun 09
Posted by Ginger in Featured Post, Teks Resource System
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CSCOPE AUDIT RELEASED

 

The Texas State Auditor John Keel, released his audit of the Cscope debacle today, June 9, 2014.

 

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His findings are of no surprise to me. How sad that millions of our tax dollars have been mishandled by our Texas Education Service Centers.

Some key points in Mr. Keel’s audit are the following:

 

  • Education Service Centers reported they collected 73.9 million from School districts, private schools, charter schools from Sept 2005 through August 2013.
  • Education Service Centers reported a expenditures to be 67.8 million.
  • Auditors were not able to verify the total amount that education service centers reported they paid for the development, installation, distribution, and marketing of CSCOPE because some of the education service centers did not separately track CSCOPE-related expenditure transactions
  • Some of the Texas Education Service Centers did not separately track their Cscope revenue transactions.
  • As a result, auditors were not able to fully answer the audit objective to determine the amount of revenue and expenditures related to the development, installation, distribution, and marketing of CSCOPE.
  • Auditors identified deficiencies in the processes used to procure and monitor the CSCOPE contracts.
  • The contracts between Region 8-Mount Pleasant and National Education Resources, Inc. from 2006 through 2011 lacked significant elements. (Ratliff Disrict)
  • Region 8-Mount Pleasant was unable to provide its 2005 contract for the development and implementation of the curriculum management system because it destroyed all supporting documentation from the 2005-2006 school year based on its records retention schedule. (shocking?)
  • Auditors identified deficiencies in Region 8-Mount Pleasant’s procurement of the CSCOPE contracts in effect from 2006 through 2011.
  • Auditors were not able to determine the total amount of rebates paid to Region 8-Mount Pleasant or the other education service centers.

You can read more of the auditors report HERE.

 

FYI… The Education Service Centers have changed the name of CSCOPE to TEKS RESOURCE SYSTEM (TRS) due to the name CSCOPE getting so much bad press. The contents is still the same. Lessons may have been removed but the same MARXIST/Collective philosophy is behind it and your tax dollars are paying for it.

 

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Join: Frank Gaffney at Texas Education Summit… Sept. 14

Sep 07
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Join WomenontheWall.org Team as we take on the issue of Education. The topic will be CSCOPE and Common Core. CSCOPE is being used in Mt. Pleasant schools as well as surrounding communities. The link line-up of speakers will be giving information that uncovers the Truth about education in America and how Texas is the last STAND!    

When: Saturday, September 14th

Time: 10 am – 2 pm

Where:  TWO SENORITAS 

                 2601 West Ferguson Road

                  Mt. Pleasant, Texas 75455

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

 

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Frank Gaffney from the Center for Security Policy will be a guest speaker at the Education Summit

Frank Gaffney is founder and president of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., a not-for-profit, nonpartisan educational corporation established in 1988.

The center is recognized nationally and internationally as a resource for timely, informed, and penetrating analyses of foreign and defense policy matters.

Gaffney is the lead author of “War Footing: Ten Steps America Must Take to Prevail in the War for the Free World” (Naval Institute Press, 2005). This highly acclaimed volume constitutes an “owners manual” for navigating global conflicts.

Gaffney also is a weekly columnist for The Washington Times, TownHall.com, and JewishWorldReview.com. He is a contributor to National Review Online, and his columns also appear periodically in WorldNetDaily.com, the New York Post, and FrontPageMagazine.com. He appears often on national and international television and radio news programs.

In April 1987, President Reagan nominated Gaffney to become assistant secretary of defense for International Security Policy, the senior position in the Defense Department with responsibility for policies involving nuclear forces, arms control and U.S.-European defense relations. He acted in that capacity for seven months. From August 1983 until November 1987, Gaffney was the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy under Assistant Secretary Richard Perle.

From February 1981 to August 1983, he was a professional staff member on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Gaffney holds a master’s in international studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a bachelor’s in Foreign Service from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.

Gaffney has received the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award (1987), the U.S. Business and Industry Council’s Defender of the National Interest Award (1994), the Navy League’s Alfred Thayer Mahan Literary Achievement Award, and the Zionist Organization of America’s Louis Brandeis Award (2003).

He lives in the Washington area.

 

 

 

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