Diddle Squat. That’s What.
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Juanita wants locals to remember the heady days of sending a dozen roses to the hotel room of Superintendent interviewees the day before they left town. Or, the swanky school board retreats with taxpayer money spent on Mimosas. Or even talk of a science center.
The Fort Bend Independent School District will notify this week 93 certified special education teachers and administrators that their contracts will not be renewed for the 2010-2011 school year.
The non-renewals are in addition to the 85 certified regular education teachers who were notified by letter of the non-renewal last week.
The letters are the inevitable outcome of the district declaring a “financial exigency” as a result of a possible $20 million deficit for the 2010-2011 school year – the fourth budget deficit in a row.
“The folks on the FBISD school board called themselves conservatives. Like George Bush, they spent and spent and spent and wasted every dollar they could. I demanded a halt to the big spending fifteen years ago. For my efforts I was called names, mainly by administrators and real estate agents,” she recalls. “We built schools for developers, not children.”
“I told you people not to listen to the EDC Boys and the Chamber of Commerce, but nooooo…..” she says in that real sarcastic voice of hers. “You listened to the people who were getting rich off your big spending. And now what do you have? Diddle squat. That’s what.”