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  Copyright 1999-2006 Peyton Wolcott
SIGNS OF GOOD
King George III left--
so will corruption in
our public schools
Commentary
NEW - EDGEWOOD ISD
NEW - ALL ELSE
NEW Reader Question
Q:  We've found a candi-
date we think will do a good
job--any questions we
should be asking?
A:  Yes.  "Will you sign a
pledge to not do business..."

More here
COMPARE & CONTRAST:
WHY DID A NEWSPAPER
REPORT EDGEWOOD'S BUDGET
AS $85.7 MILLION WHEN $190+
MILLION IS COMING INTO THE
DISTRICT'S COFFERS?
By Peyton Wolcott-Sept. 21, 2006/5:30 p
IS COLLEGE
NECESSARY?
By Peyton Wolcott
Sept. 26, 2006

Not for cooking star and
entrepreneur
Paula Deen
Paula Deen
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here, with "SUBSCRIBE" in the
subject line.
When I read on Sept. 11
in the
San Antonio
Express-News
that
Edgewood ISD's budget
was $85.7 million, some
questions were answered
but more were raised.
 If
EISD's budget was only
(above right) who in addition to living a
rich and full life has overcome obstacles
that would have debilitated the average
person.

In fact, losing both parents and having
two babies by age 23
did debilitate
Deen.  "I began to have the symptoms of
agoraphobia," she says.  Then she and
her childhood-sweetheart husband lost
their home and business.

So she spent virtually all of the next 20
years inside her home.  And cooked, and
eventually stared down the void and the
darkness and emerged to start a modest
catering business with her teenaged
sons and $200.  She is now a full-blown
cooking star on the
Food Network in
addition to running two successful
Savannah restaurants, The Lady & Sons
and
Uncle Bubba's Oyster House and
writing several cookbooks.  A product of
the Dougherty County School System in
Albany, Georgia, after graduating from
Albany High School in 1965, Deen never
#1 - There is justice
This mug shot of former
Bremond ISD supe
Kenny Johnson is proof
our justice system  can
work.
By Peyton Wolcott/Aug. 14,
2006
Glenn County, CA
Supe Joni Samples
UPDATES
$85.7 mil why were there numbers as
high as $190 mil
on Edgewood's
Texas Education Agency budget
page?  According to TEA's Division of
Financial Audits' Rita Chase, the $85.7
mil represents "the general, child
nutrition and debt service funds only.  
Although the other funds (federal and
other special revenue funds) are part of
the operation of the school and have a
budget they are not required to be
formally adopted by the board (these
funds are not included in the $85.7 M).  
This does not mean the board and
superintendent are not responsible for
them.  The funds may come from many
sources, state, federal, local or other
sources....The board and the
superintendent are responsible for
these funds and oversee their
expenditures."   Waiting to hear from
SAEN why they only reported the O&M
amount.  
More coming.
PPHOTO/Courtesy of
Robertson County Sheriff
Gerald Yezak
Yes, it took three years,
but Bremond moms
Nancy Gadbois and Pat
Yezak
persisted.  John-
son's pre-trial
here and
Johnson's sentencing
here
.  More on the
Bremond moms here
#2 - Online Checks
Local school boards
are bringing the idea of
districts' open
checkbooks back to the
Texas Lege.
COPY & PASTE URL:  
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/cgi/sas/broker?_
service=marykay&_program=adhoc.addispat
ch.sas&endyear=05&major=fi&minor=a&form
at=w&selsumm=id&linespg=60&charsln=120
&grouping=%26grouping.&key=015905
I wish supes could
under- stand that one of
the drivers behind public
records sear- ches is to
find out how our local tax
dollars are being spent.  
Right now, supes control
our district's check-
books and parents have
little or no real input.  
Would you rather spend
$3,000 on your supe's
trip to a luxury hotel out
of state for what
amounts to a free
vacation-- or for books
for your child's library?
 
Posting all checks
online will introduce
transpar- ency and
accountability to what is
now a very closed
process.  I am happy to
report that I have news
from at least one school
district that this is on
their agenda, and hope
to post more within the
week.
QUESTIONS: EDGEWOOD
MOTOR VEHICLES
By Peyton Wolcott - Sept. 16, 2006 -9 am
CALIF. SUPE, 11
AIDES: $244,000 IN
ONE YEAR ON
DISTRICT CREDIT
CARDS
By Peyton Wolcott - Sept. 21,
2006/6:30 pm
Everybody said for years that it was
a troubled tree, rotten to the core.  Yes, it
still looked like a tree, and there were
some branches with green leaves on
them, but last week most of it fell off in a
big windy rainstorm.  We all know public
schools in our country have grown big and
corrupt and aren't teaching our kids.  

Lookin' for that big rainstorm.
What's this burned-out truck
doing sitting in Edgewood ISD's bus
lot?  Why does Edgewood appear to
have not one but two large trucks?  Why
does truck #47, the burned out one,
appear to have had the Edgewood ISD
logo painted out (below) on its driver
door?
FROM $6 BILLION BUDGET &
$112,000 SALARY TO 12  CENTS
PER HOUR--WHO'S NEXT?
By Peyton Wolcott - Sept. 13, 2006/11 pm
And why does truck #47 appear
to have no vehicle registration plates
or tags on the rear of the (below) as
required by state law?  Do front tags
count with the DMV?
Tim
Crews

(PHOTO/AP)
Former GA ed-head
Linda Schrenko
(left)
on way to court for
pre-trial hearing in Nov.
2004; entered prison
9/11 for 8 years.
More
here (PHOTO-Spink/AJC)
Sacramento Valley
Mirror
publisher/editor
Tim
Crews
(left) is publishing a
series of reports on
business practices by
Glenn
County's Office of
Education,
including supe
Joni Samples,
who has
traveled to London and
Mexico
gratis her taxpayers.
#3 - Modern Minutemen
American's hope is our
children--and parents
willing to stand up for
what's right. Here's a
salute to America's
"Modern Minutemen."  
By Peyton Wolcott - July 4,
2006
More vehicular compliance questions
are on their way, along with photos.
WHY DID LAKE TRAVIS ISD HIRE A
TEAM OF LAWYERS TO FORWARD
A RECEIPT FOR 24 SHIRTS?
By Peyton Wolcott - Sept. 13, 2006/11 Pm
WHAT AND HOW MUCH SIDE
BUSINESS AND CONSULTING
Excerpt from Joni's
email to Joni while at
Puerto Vallarta's
El
Famoso Instituto de
Espanol
, in English:
"I don’t want to go to the pool.
I’m not into pools. I like
looking at the beach, but I’m
not into sitting on the beach
with all the sand. I went to
walk through the stores and
watch the people. I like that."
More here
SHOULD
SUPES BE
ALLOWED?
B
By Peyton Wolcott -
Sept. 14, 2006
Our first Minutemen
were ordinary people
like you and me, the
Bremond moms, and

the Olsen family
of
Bain- bridge Island,
Washington.  
Jim, a
Coast Guard captain,
was greeted at their
daugh- ter's middle
school last year by
armed police officers
and presented with a
"No Tres- pass" letter by
the district--all because
he'd questioned the
district's revisionistic
history of WWII, rewritten
by the district in favor of
the Japan- ese.  His
wife, historian
Mary
Dombrowski,
 has
produced a series of
documentaries detailing
Japanese espion- age
and military-related
movements in their area.
Edgewood's supe owned day
care while supe at Edgewood
Although according to the Secretary of
State's office
Edgewood ISD supe
Richard Bocanegra is still shown as
one of the owners, along with two
other Bocanegras, of
Stepping Stone
Creations, LLC,
the owner of La Casita
Learning Center
(above), San Juana
Alardin,
the new owner of the day care
on San Antonio's Loop 410, says she
bought it this past May.  
Remember when I went to the
LTISD board meeting last
summer
and was disappointed to not
get to see the
Team of Eight (7 elected
trustees plus their non-elected supe) in
their custom matchy-matchy (thank you,
Sister Parish) shirts?  That I felt a bit
bait-and-switched after seeing these red
and black shirts on the district's website
then when I got to the board meeting they
were wearing their street clothes?  Being
a curious soul, I wondered what this
matchy-matchy finery was costing the
district's taxpayers.  The receipt has
arrived--disappointingly accompanied by
a letter on
Walsh, Anderson, Brown,
Schulze & Aldridge, P.C.
letterhead.  
More  here
Joni Samples
(above); Canto
del Sol pool
Although a review of Richard Boca-
negra's November 16, 2004
contract--
the one provided last month
by Edgewood ISD in response to a
request for the most recent one--does
not address whether or not Bocanegra
during his tenure as Edgewood's  
superintendent should or should not
be able to operate any other business
or do side consulting, several
questions arise, chief of which include:
1.   During the period Bocanegra
owned La Casita, his district was
slipping into the Texas academic
accountability cellar, "Academically
Unacceptable."   Did the former impact
the latter?
2.  Should any Texas public school
superintendents be allowed to
operate side businesses while they're
also running school districts?
3.  Did Edgewood's board know?  If
so, how much were they told?

FOLLOW UP:  Bocanegra has not
responded to requests for comments.
More about Jim (above
at their daughter's
middle school) and Mary

here
and the other
fifteen individuals
honored in this year's
"Salute to Our Modern
Minutemen"
here
The Lessons of
9/11 Continue
#4 - Caring citizens
There is a growing
cadre of past and
present school district
employees coming
forward with vital
informa- tion regarding
the operations of their
district.   
By Peyton Wolcott-Aug. 24,
2006
I feel a personal connection to
9/11--as I believe we all should.
Not that any of us needs a reason other
than militant Muslim fundamentalist
jihadists crashed our planes with living
human beings on board into buildings
filled with more living human beings, and
a field in Pennsylvania, because they
oppose our freedoms and our ideals.  
As it happens, I was due to leave
Burbank the morning of the first 9/11 and
was in Manhattan for the second two.  
This photo above is from our kids' 19th-
floor apartment three years ago today.
These are the good
folks who have grown
sick watching excesses
at their districts,
examples of waste and
fraud for the benefit of
senior administrators
and some board
members, at the
expense of students
and tax- payers.  To all
of you from all over the
U.S. who are sending
so much vital
information regarding
the goings-on within
your school districts,
this is my big public
thank you.  

Sample comments:  "I
can no longer remain
silent."  "People
deserve to know what's
really going on here."

I couldn't do this
work without you
and your
contributions, and
I thank you from
the bottom of my
heart.
SAN DIEGO REPORTER
JOHN MATTES UPDATE
By Peyton Wolcott - Sep. 14, 2006/9 am

Assad “Sam” Suleiman and Rosa
Barraza,
the couple caught on camera
beating Mattes with fists and a water
bottle, pleaded not guilty to charges of
assault and battery Tuesday.   
Should our
children's social
studies lessons
now
while our country's under
attack be about
Sheryl
Crow
(right) and Beyonce
or something more solid like the history
of Muslim aggression against Western
civilization for the past 1200 years?  
Which would be the more useful and
life-preserving?  
 More here  
EDGEWOOD
COULD HAVE
BEEN WORSE
FOR THIS "NON
-HISPANIC"
By Peyton Wolcott
Sept. 7, 2006/11 am
DOES DALLAS ISD SUPE
HINOJOSA STILL DESERVE
A STANDING OVATION?
By Peyton Wolcott - Sept. 9, 2006/11:53 pm
San Diego's
John Mattes
Have you seen these  images  yet of
San Diego reporter John Mattes'
ordeal earlier this week with two
interviewees?  Although his
investigation dealt with real estate
rather than public school fraud, Mattes'
violent reaction from
Sam and Rita
Suleiman
took me back to August 3 in
Edgewood.  

Quick:  What country is this?
After Rosa assaulted John with a water
bottle, as she was leaving to go to her
car to get "the gun," she asked Mattes
which he preferred,
Tijuana or Ensen-
ada,
indicating (expletives deleted) that
she would do violence to him there.
#5 - Parents organizing
When I started
volunteering 6 1/2 years
ago, there were very few
grassroots parent
groups with websites.

If you Google
"grassroots parent
group" today you get 9.5
million hits.
During a reception last October
in Dallas (above),
part of the annual
TASA/ TASB convention, an entire room
filled with Texas administrators got to
their feet to applaud
Dallas ISD supe
Michael Hinojosa
during a celebration of
the
Mexican American School Boards
Ass'n "Triple Crown"
which also
included
Houston ISD's Abe Saavedra
and
San Antonio ISD's then-supe Ruben
Olivarez.   
But at the same moment
Hinojosa was being loudly celebrated by
a roomful of partygoers at the
Hyatt,  
Dallas taxpayers were being robbed,
most notably (allegedly) to the tune of
$78,000 by
Marsha Ollison, a DISD
secretary working within a hop and a skip
of Hinojosa's executive suite.
HEADS UP !
Team of Eight
TWO, FOUR, SIX, EIGHT,
WHO DO WE NOT
APPRECIATE?
THE TEAM OF EIGHT!
By Peyton Wolcott - June 16, 2006
I never give them hell.
I just tell the truth and
they think it's hell.
 
~ Harry S. Truman
#6 - The Internet
The world is now flat
It really is true.  The
Internet has empowered
parent and taxpayer
efforts in our schools in
a way neither our
flat-footed districts nor
the MSM know how to
cope with yet.

Here's one example:
On a Google search, my
coverage earlier this
year of the
Christine
Scarlett/Steve Bradigan

"Win a Date With Me at
DQ" contest in
Strongs-
ville, Ohio
comes in
ahead of
ABC News.  
EDGEWOOD NOT
MAKING SENSE--BUT WHY
START NOW
?
By Peyton Wolcott - Sept. 7, 2006/8 am
According to my Aug. 3 police report, the
reason Edgewood ISD sent three police
officers to detain me for 45 minutes
was because I had to
"get permission
from the districts [sic] PR
department."   
Further, Mario Rios,
Edgewood's PR guy
, told me while I
was being detained that I needed to go
through him for everything from then on.

And so I have.  From that day forward,
Mario's been cc'd on all of my faxes and
correspondence, including public
records request.   And I've copied
EISD
supe
Richard M. Bocanegra because
according to the
Texas Education Code
he's EISD's official "Custodian of
Records."   But last night comes an
email from
Irma Paine--remember
Irma?  She's the gal who accompanied

former EISD supe
Luis Gonzalez on a
school district trip and stayed in a
Four
Seasons hotel,
apparently promoted to
EISD's HR department now.  Irma tells
me the supe says I'm not to send any
correspondence to Bocanegra or Rios.  
Huh?  
Make up your minds, folks.
Especially when you're going to send
armed police officers to detain citizens
based on following your "policies."
Comes an interesting
question
from a friend who
is--brave soul--also a school
board member.  The new
supe they've just hired has
asked to be included on the
dais with the rest of the
board, front and center with
the president.  "Anything
wrong with this," my friend
asks.

Answer:  "Plenty.  Let's start
with the examples of
Spring
Branch ISD trustees
(above)
and their
former supe
Yvonne Katz,
and also Ann
Arbor Public Schools
and
their
recent supe George
Fornero.
  More here
Hinojosa (above left) with Real Estate
Council PAC chair William Mundinger
$20 million on DISD P-Cards
During Hinojosa's watch Dallas ISD
employees were being allowed to run up
charges--at an amount the
Dallas
Morning News
estimates at $20 million
last year--on the district's procurement
credit cards, or "P-Cards," many of which
had no approval and no receipts.

So, what do you think?  Does Dallas ISD
supe Michael Hinojosa still deserve a
standing ovation?
 Is it enough that
secretary Ollison has been arrested and
the administrator in charge of P-Cards
suspended?
 Why didn't Michael
Hinojosa as part of his fiduciary duty of
care look into P-Cards when he took the
helm of DISD 18 months ago?
 Why has it
taken months of Dallas Morning News
stories and an investigation by the
FBI to
move him to action?  

Are Hinojosa's fixes enough?  Or are
they too little, too late?  
Edu-reporting
alert!
WHY IS BERNARD
PARKS SILENCING
S. CALIF.'S BEST
EDU-REPORTING?
By Peyton Wolcott - 081306
"Without any warning or
notice the office of
Los
Angeles city
councilman
Bernard
Parks,
chairman of the
powerful council budget
committee,
notified the
management of city-run
Los Angeles City View
Channel 35
that his long
time sponsorship of the
Full Disclosure public
affairs program was
terminated," says
Leslie
Dutton,
Full Disclosure
producer and host.  
"The letter of termination
states 'Its recent airing of
several episodes
contentious content has
sparked numerous
inquires from
public-access television
producers Citywide
critiquing the integrity of
the station and, in-turn
the City' and did not
elaborate what the
offensive content was."
EISD PUBLIC INFORMATION
ACT REQUESTS:  STATUS
By Peyton Wolcott - Aug. 30, 2006/5 am
TEA EDU-MISSIONER
ABOUT TO SHOOT THE
MESSENGER?
By Peyton Wolcott - Sept. 7, 2006/11 am

This is so classic.  Caveon, the testing
analyzers
Texas edu-missioner Shirley
Neeley
hired to find TAKS cheaters,
found some.  So now
Joshua Benton of
the
Dallas Morning News reports that
Shirl's going to fire them.  Shoot the
messenger?  Think about the warning
this sends to whomever she hires next.  
Imaginary conversation at Caveon's
replacement,
Cave-In, here.
If Edgewood ISD is not telling the truth
on their own front door
(below) how do
we know we can trust and believe them
about anything else?  
TPIA report here
The average parent or taxpayer
entering the front door of Edgewood
ISD (above) would naturally think to
themselves, "Hey, hey, hey!  My child's
going to school in a TEA 'Recognized'
district."  But this is far from true.  On
Aug. 1, the Texas edu-missioner
announced that Edgewood had dropped
to dead bottom: 'Academically
Unacceptable.'  
Hey.
Texas parents and taxpayers deserve to
know what's going on in
Edgewood ISD
because Edgewood has sued all of us
five times now for what they perceive as
our excess property tax dollars--but no
one appears to have looked very closely
at how Edgewood has spent those
dollars once they received them.  Have
Edgewood's trustees and admini-
strators been wise stewards of other
people's money?   No wonder

Edgewood supe
Richard M. Bocanegra
sent
three armed police officers in an
apparent attempt to try to stop me from
taking photos like this one on August 3.  
More here
Emmy-award
winning producer
Leslie Dutton
(above, questioning a
demolition company
employee at the site of
LAUSD's money pit
high school, Belmont,
now approaching the
half-billion-dollar mark)
has brought us via her

Full Disclosure
Network
the best and
most complete news
regarding Belmont,
along with news about
Capistrano USD's
trustee recall drive;
yes, they can recall
trustees in California
although it helps if the
registrar plays fair and
knows the rules.  
Texas edu-missioner Shirley Neeley:   
Checking for gravy stains or getting rid
of Caveon?
 (PHOTO/S.Bushart)
WHERE'S SAM?
By Peyton Wolcott - Aug. 26, 2006/11 pm
LA JOYA ISD
NON-SHOCKER
By Peyton Wolcott - Sept. 7, 2006/8:30 am
Anybody know where Edgewood ISD
police officer
Sam Talamantoz is?  
Has he gone AWOL?  He prepared my
police report regarding the detainment
incident (three armed EISD police
officers detained me on Aug. 3, 2006 for
apparently taking photographs in the
main administration building without
first getting permission from
EISD PR
guy
Mario Rios) but I've not yet received
a report signed by Sam.  What gives?  
Who really prepared it?  Why hasn't
Sam been available this month to sign
it?  Is he too busy out detaining other
grandmothers with cameras?
Dutton with Emmy
Garza-Uresti hasn't
responded to
queries re expired
SBEC certificate
Why hasn't Antonio
Uresti answered
questions about
past, SBEC?
Could it be that LA
Unified doesn't like
having their dirtiest
laundry aired so
effectively?

Could it be true that
LAUSD supe Roy
Romer
has Parks' ear?  
Dangerous waters for
city council member
Parks to navigate,
especially given the city
council's vote yesterday
to back
Mayor Antonio
Villaraigosa's
plan to
take over LAUSD.  

By the way, is there
anyone who thinks
Villaraigosa's takeover
is about anything but the
big pot o'money that
LAUSD represents?  
If I'd not taken this photograph above
of Edgewood's front door
(at top), how
else would anyone outside of
Edgewood know that the district is
apparently trying to pass itself off as a
TEA "Recognized" school district when
it's anything but?  Or that Texas edu-
missioner Shirley Neeley had
announced on Aug. 1 that Edgewood
has slipped to the bottom-most rung of
the accountability ladder,

"Academically Unacceptable"?
ANY SUGGESTIONS FROM
INTERNETLAND?  
I've faxed and
emailed both Antonio and Rita and no
response.   Ideas, anyone, anyone?  
More here.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
By Peyton Wolcott - Sep. 1, 2006/1:26 am
People in La Joya ISD are upset
about their new power couple (below);
she's the
new La Joya ISD board vice
president
who works for TEA as an
NCLB
consultant and he's just been pro-
moted from
principal of a failing school
to the district's ass't supe.
 Thanks to
the Internet the world really is flat now,
and the good people of La Joya ISD have
started blogging all kinds of news (grey
boxes) in hopes the world will notice--
and that
TEA and SBEC will investigate.
Here's another "Recognized" sign.
CURRENT BUDGETS
LA USD            $   8 billion
City of LA        $ 20 billion
So it is in this environ-
ment that, whatever his
motive, former
Los
Angeles Police Chief
Bernard Parks,
now a
city councilman, has
pulled the plug on
Dutton's broadcasts on
LA's News Channel 35.  
I have faxed councilman
Parks; let's see what he
has to say.  Hopefully his
pulling the plug on Full
Disclosure was an
easily corrected
administrative error.
Edgewood ISD main bulletin board
La Joya ISD's school board, all
seven of them; at least the
supe's not in the picture-
-yet.
The only item posted on Edgewood's
main bulletin board was--irony of
ironies--a memo with instructions for
filing public records requests (white
sheet, lower right corner above).  The
memo doesn't say anything about
cameras.  More coming, including the
status of my public information act
requests, with responses, if any.
NOT MAKIN' THIS UP
By Peyton Wolcott - Aug. 27, 2006/11:30 pm
UPDATED Aug. 27, 2006/1:00 p.m.
Recent carryings-on by the La Joya
ISD school board (Texas)
(above)
present a good case for citizens
extracting a
signed pledge from their
trustee candidates similar to the one we
did in
Llano ISD in May 2004--before the
election. Afterwards it's too late.  The
nicest, most responsible folks get
themselves elected to the local school
board and all kinds of unusual things
can happen, witness this excerpt from a
local paper near LaJoya:  
More here
STATUS:  No response
from Bernard Parks
as of Sept. 11, 2006
EDGEWOOD ISD UPDATE
By Peyton Wolcott - Aug. 24, 2006 - 6 am
San Antonio's Edgewood ISD is one of
the 20 poorest school districts in Texas
and the lead in five historic lawsuits
instigated for the purpose of obtaining
more money from richer districts.  But
have
"Robin Hood" and its twin "equity"
worked?  Texas Education
Commissioner Shirley Neeley
says no;
on August 1, the
Texas Education
Agency
rated Edgewood on the lowest
rung possible, "Academically
Unacceptable," for the 2005-06 school
year.
EVERMAN'S TEAM OF EIGHT:
UPDATE RE WHEN THE GOING GOT
TOUGH, GUESS WHO RESIGNED?
By Peyton Wolcott - Aug. 26, 2006 - 5 pm
EISD PD Saturday patrol--WHY?
Everman ISD Team of Eight
Who's on First?
We've thrown piles and piles of taxpayer
dollars from elsewhere in the state at
Edgewood and under the leadership of  
EISD superintendent Richard M.
Bocanegra,
Edgewood has landed in
the academic cellar.   Why don't school
boards follow the example set by the
great American sport of baseball and
throw a losing coach out?

To follow the baseball analogy, the
transcript of
San Antonio Lightning
editor
RG Griffing with EISD's PR guy,
Mario Rios, sounds like Abbott &
Costello's
classic "Who's on First"
routine.  
More here
Friends, I must admit to being mystified
by
Everman ISD's board president Boyd
Andress's
resignation over the flap
caused by
EHS principal Kathy
Culbertson's
alleged remarks of a racist
nature.  My mystification arises from the
fact that
EISD supe Jeri Pfeifer (2nd to
right, front row above) is the
Team of
Eight
board member actually in charge of
hiring and supervising employees, not
Andress.  So I have today faxed and
emailed Jeri; will post her response, if
and when.  
More here
This past month I've asked several
accountability questions of
Edgewood's
current supe,
Richard Bocanegra.  To
my dismay, I have received no responses
from Richard [CORRECTION:  On Aug. 2
Bocanegra sent an "initial response"
with incomplete information and has yet
to follow through] and the responses
from his staff, save one, have been less
than satisfactory.  Further, even though
the detainment incident--remember the
one with the
three armed EISD police
officers
, apparently because I was
taking photographs at the administration
building--occurred three weeks ago
today,
I still have not received a police
report signed by either the report's
preparer or its reviewer.
 Curious.
Parent-paid-for Edgewood Hurricanes youth sports meet above
right and their playing field is in the middle, in the shadow of
unused Edgewood Academy at left.  The district's fitness center
for adult employees lies on the other side of the playing field (see
red arrow pointing to barrel vaulted roof).  
EDGEWOOD ISD UPDATE:
A DAY TRIP
By Peyton Wolcott - Aug. 21, 2006-11pm
If you've ever wondered what eight
minutes in the mind of a public school
PR executive would be like, the
transcript of
San Antonio Lightning