Posted on 08/13/2005 12:54:13 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
This story two years ago: Schools at odds in racial division - Hearne ISD sues nearby Mumford for "white flight"***........The accusations of racism sting, said Mumford Superintendent Pete Bienski Jr.
Mumford's growth has never been about race or money, but about educating children, he said. To prove it, Bienski has his own statistics.
Of the 342 students who transferred to Mumford last year, 268 came from Hearne. Of the Hearne transfers, 156 were black or Hispanic.
"This is not a white school. We take all kids," Bienski said. "People come to Mumford because they know they are getting a better education. We don't recruit kids. Parents do our recruiting for us by word of mouth."
Bienski doesn't deny that Mumford relies on the state aid it receives for the transfers, but he insists that has not been the secret to the school district's recent success. Mumford has been successful, Bienski says, because it does more with less.
There is some evidence of that.
Bienski serves not only as the school district superintendent, but also as the principal of all three campuses. When the district began its aggressive building campaign in 1997, Bienski served as the general contractor, saving the district millions of dollars. The district owns all three campuses outright.
The school district stocked its computer labs by taking advantage of grant programs. When it launched its high school a few years ago, it focused on academics and avoided costly athletic programs such as football. ....***
School districts in Texas receive at least $5,500 in state funding for each child enrolled.
Uh huh... I thought so. Follow the money.
So if I get this right, the white kids are tranferring to a school dist. with fewer black kids because their old district is too dangerous and they are not getting a good education.
What's the problem?
Look at how Mumford tightened its belt and stretched their money! (Post#1)
It's more than that. Read the end of the story and Post #1. As usual, the msm hides the other side at the end of the article.
I saw that.
Liberals get absolutely livid when their indoctrination schemes and/or tax dollar fleecing goes awry.
They certainly do!
NEA and local school unions are going to fight this tooth and nail. Who knows, in time this could lead to demands that qualified teachers inhabit classrooms not just union members.
There's some more in the LINKED article.
August 10, 2005 Judge Orders Whites to Attend Black School***Hundreds of students who have transferred from Hearne to the Mumford Independent School District will have to go home to reverse an illegal "white flight" trend that has segregated the districts, according to a ruling delivered out of a federal court in Tyler last week.
In the 110-page document, Senior U.S. District Court Judge William Wayne Justice described Mumford as maintaining a "pattern of fraudulent conduct" in past years as it solicited transfers from Hearne, increasing its enrollment of white students over a 10-year period by 3,540 percent.
The lawsuit was filed by the Hearne school district and three of its students in July 2003. It was based, in part, on the argument that Mumford's actions have been in direct contrast to "No. 5821" - shorthand for a 1970 civil case that stated "no student in Texas will be effectively excluded from equal educational opportunities based on race, color or national origin."
"Mumford has shown consistent and persistent willingness to circumvent the requirements of No. 5281 whenever possible," Justice wrote in the Thursday ruling.
The judge's ruling permanently bars the Texas Education Agency from funding transfers to Mumford that "reduce or impeded racial desegregation at Hearne Independent School District." Districts receive about $5,500 funding from the agency for each student.
Mumford also was ordered to no longer host Hearne students currently attending its schools.
In addition, Justice ordered the TEA to assign a monitor to Mumford to ensure compliance with the ruling from now until the end of the 2007-08 school year.
In response to the accusations, Mumford had argued that "it cannot be determined that [the district's] acceptance of transfers has had a segregative effect on Hearne," according to court documents.
However, Justice sternly dismissed the contention, accusing the school district of apparently having a "misunderstanding of basic arithmetic."....***
Home school ping please.
Yes. How dare they be fiscally responsible and TEACH too!
If that's the case, the Fifth Circuit will slap him down in short order. They're not handy with emergency stay orders, so we're on a roll.
Not to change the subject, but is anyone hollering about making the Hearne school worth attending? Maybe a regime change? Superintendent/Principal x 3/General Contractor/Cost Cutter Bienski sounds like my kind of school administrator--do they have any more of him?
There must be people of many races stuck in the district and unable to transfer; why aren't they raising Cain over their own district's management? Surely they're not all backing this shakedown!
HEARNE ISD
198-905
REGION 06 mail:
900 WHEELOCK ST
HEARNE 77859-3096
site:
900 WHEELOCK ST
HEARNE 77859-3096
phone:
(979) 279-3200
fax:
(979) 279-3631
email:
ddeaver@hearne.k12.tx.us
url:
www.hearne.k12.tx.us
DAVID DEAVER 1229
MUMFORD ISD
198-906
REGION 06 mail:
P O BOX 268
MUMFORD 77867-0268
site:
F M #50
MUMFORD 77867-0268
phone:
(979) 279-3678
fax:
(979) 279-5044
email:
pbienski@mumford.k12.tx.us
url:
www.mumford.k12.tx.us/
PETE J BIENSKI JR 463
As noted in Post #1 .....Of the 342 students who transferred to Mumford last year, 268 came from Hearne. Of the Hearne transfers, 156 were black or Hispanic. ......
But Judge Justice (good Lord) can't buck the LIBERALS.
2006 DISTRICT NAME: MUMFORD ISD
DISTRICT NUMBER: 198906
ACCOUNTABILITY RATING: Academically Acceptable
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
SUMMARY
ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS
NUMBER
OF
CAMPUS RATING: SCHOOLS
EXEMPLARY 0
RECOGNIZED 2
ACADEMICALLY ACCEPTABLE 0
ACADEMICALLY UNACCEPTABLE 0
AEA: ACADEMICALLY ACCEPTABLE 0
AEA: ACADEMICALLY UNACCEPTABLE 0
NOT RATED: OTHER 0
___
TOTAL 2
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Campus Name Links to the Accountability Data Table
CAMPUS LIST (in campus number order)
CAMPUS RATING COMMENTS
001 MUMFORD H S Recognized
101 MUMFORD EL Recognized
Total Count = 2
2005 DISTRICT ACCOUNTABILITY SUMMARY
District Name Links to the Accountability Data Table
DISTRICT NAME: HEARNE ISD
DISTRICT NUMBER: 198905
ACCOUNTABILITY RATING: Academically Acceptable
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
SUMMARY
ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS
NUMBER
OF
CAMPUS RATING: SCHOOLS
EXEMPLARY 0
RECOGNIZED 0
ACADEMICALLY ACCEPTABLE 4
ACADEMICALLY UNACCEPTABLE 0
AEA: ACADEMICALLY ACCEPTABLE 0
AEA: ACADEMICALLY UNACCEPTABLE 0
NOT RATED: OTHER 0
___
TOTAL 4
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Campus Name Links to the Accountability Data Table
CAMPUS LIST (in campus number order)
CAMPUS RATING COMMENTS
002 HEARNE H S Academically Acceptable
042 HEARNE J H Academically Acceptable
102 EAST SIDE EL Academically Acceptable PAIRED WITH 103
103 BLACKSHEAR EL Academically Acceptable
Once there choose "District by Region Number" and enter 06 and "continue"
There you will be able to pull down Mumford and Hearne.
At the bottom of each district recap, you can click on individual schools and get the racial break down and how they preform.
Interesting that when they choose to, they put an * to "protect student confidentiality." Check for yourself what they're really protecting.
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