2004 Customer Satisfaction Survey (PDF, 566 KB) - TEA - Home ...

are getting out of a bad environment, but so many just don’t seem to either want to or have been so
beat down by the system that they can not get that positive attitude. We all feel sorry for most of our
kids and want to help. Giving them an impossible TAKS test is just not the way to get that done.
Assessments are out of reality. Legislators and TEA leadership have allowed testing companies waste
valuable resources that could be better spent on everyday classroom instruction. Without a doubt,
daily instruction in front of students provides more opportunities for success than all of the testing in
this state.
School Funding/ Financing
Equity Funding for all Texas children attending public local education agencies.
1) Math, 2) science, 3) student success, transition, mentoring, distance learning, accountability. Using
transitional style methods, LEP success comes much faster, Charter Schools, Current funding levels
are very inadequate, Needs complete overhaul
Legislative lack of putting public education as the number one priority.
Funding for small schools.
Equity and adequacy.
State income tax is needed.
If the state closed all charter schools and blended those students into regular schools, it might improve
the finance situation. I feel that funding charter schools is the same thing as funding private schools
with public funds.
Greatly increased support, funding, and technical assistance for TAKS training of teachers.
Adequate funding for rural districts.
Reading First Grant information is ambiguous. We have been stonewalled regarding Scholastic and as
a result have been told we might not receive another approval year. If we do get approval for another
year, we have been told that the grant might be prorated. We need accurate and timely information.
The Grant information was given to us completely in December, yet we are asked to apply an
evaluation formula for the entire year. Poor, poor implementation. Leave the ESC 17 alone. They do
a great job for us!
Funding is not anywhere close to enough to meet the increased accountability demands.
Specific support for K, 6/8 districts. This seems to be a very low priority, revealing perceptions that they
are not valued.
Graduation requirements are headed toward forcing every single kid to be college-bound and are very
costly.
It’s all about funding...mandates, etc.
Un-funded mandates. Eliminate them!
Textbooks.
Un-funded mandates HRAs.
We need to keep Robin Hood finance plan.
Easy grant application / eval.
Adequate funding that TEA has no control over.
The primary issue at this time is funding. I realize this does not come from TEA. We need flexibility and
proper funding.
School Finance, any new proposal should have a revenue sharing mechanism built in to it whereby the
property rich districts share w/the property poor.
Alternative/ Vocational/ Charter School
The drop in emphasis for vocational education is a big problem. We have decided that every child
should go to college but every child does not want to go to college. There is nothing wrong with
vocational education and through our actions with legislation and our requirements to have every
child on the Recommend Program, we are depriving a large percentage of our students with what
they need to make them successful in the future and that is vocational education.
Vocational Education.
Survey Research Center, University Of North Texas
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