I wrote this letter to the Editor of The Crowley Star just last week: Dear Editor: As I have taken a longer look at the Crowley ISD and the substantial downward spiral it seems to have taken in the last few years I have to wonder if it is not the leadership that has caused this to happen. When the district is spending just shy of 5 million dollars a year for salaries in the admin building are the tax paying citizens of this district receiving a fair shake. The current superintendent of schools is supposedly one that has already retired once from the education system and his greed seems to be costing all of us dearly. Dan Powell: Superintendent of Schools Crowley ISD January 2010 – Present (4 years 7 months) Associate Professor Texas Christian University Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry August 2004 – May 2010 (5 years 10 months) Superintendent of Schools Everman ISD June 1997 – November 2004 (7 years 6 months) Assistant Superintendent Fort Worth ISD Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Education Management industry June 1986 – May 1997 (11 years) Served as Assistant Superintendent for Non-Instructional Services, Assistant Superintendent for Elementary and Secondary Education, Assistant Superintendent for the Southwest Pyramid Schools and Principal of Southwest High School, Chief of Staff and Assistant Superintendent for Business and Finance. He spent 7 1/2 years as the leader of the Everman ISD and I am not sure after looking at that district I would have been in a hurry to hire him in Crowley. He recently was spouting rhetoric about doing away with the homeowners exemption in Crowley so the tax revenue to the school district would be higher. Can you afford that? He focuses a great deal on the Chism Trail Tollway and expanding the district further when all data shows it will not cause a huge influx of growth into the Crowley area. Having read the data on the North Texas Tollway it is easy to determine that all the growth came at the end of the line, not at the start or the middle. We need to take a hard look at the Crowley ISD and it might benefit the parents and the citizens of Crowley to attend a school board meeting every once in awhile. Let’s take a look at the gang violence and citizens should become aware of just how often the Crowley and Fort Worth Police Departments are being called to our high schools. As tax paying citizens in this district we need to look at the pork barrel politics that is consuming the budget (such as the millions that are budgeted for not only cleaning supplies but a contracted cleaning service as well) and we need to determine, as a community, if our administrative personnel have become more of a burden than an asset. So I ask the citizens of Crowley. How well do you know this school district?
Posted on: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 02:56:35 +0000
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