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

STAFFED! I’m told that every time I call.
Don’t let the legislature allow AETNA to take our $500 for insurance and then charge us for them to
make money off of our money!
Less Paperwork / Too Much Paperwork
The paper flow for special education departments and LEP students is incredibly too much. It takes
away from the time the teacher spends with his/her students.
Make it easier for teachers to access need policy information. Also, TEA needs to revisit the amount of
paperwork required by bilingual teachers. The massive amount of paperwork required directly affects
the instruction of the children.
Provide information to schools through electronic format rather than paper format. This would save a
considerable amount of time for school administrators
More Teacher Input / Less Politics
Accept input from classroom teachers and actually use in to make policy and decisions.
The State should stop appointing SBOE members who are lawyers and electing legislators who are
lawyers. Educators are the best source of information about education. Treat your teachers like the
professionals they are, not criminals or glorified babysitters.
Have staff that have been teachers (recently) and ask for teacher’s opinion on new policies from your
agency.
Ask the teachers, not just the administrators, for their opinions. I appreciate this opportunity to have
input!
Stop being so self-absorbed about the stupid web site and start asking teachers important questions
about what WE see happening in education, and what we NEED to be successful and about how
current initiatives are working, and maybe about what is wrong with education from our perspective
and why we think our students perform below the international average. Who cares about your web
site?
TEA often does not represent my views on issues. I believe that TEA is an agency that it too often
aligns itself with liberal politicians and their policies. You have used scare tactics in the past in order
to endorse an agenda for our state that is not conservative and does not represent my values or that
of many Texas teachers.
More contact with the teachers in the classroom is needed.
As a teacher, I feel we are not represented by people that truly know what teachers need to be
successful in the classroom. Most of these people have not been in the classroom in recent years or
they never taught. I suppose a suggestion would be to have more teacher input and/or teachers hired
at TEA that understand what needs the current educators need. I am very frustrated as many other
educators are and only continue to teach in spite of how we are treated by our government and
society. We need more backing!!!!! Help!
TEA needs to survey the professionals in the classroom to determine their needs and concerns. The
population of the majority of the schools does not reflect a high socio, economic background. These
schools face far different challenges than those pictured by the governing board and the legislature.
When I have had parents contact TEA, the TEA staff gives information and recommendations that are
not always appropriate. It often appears that they do not collect both sides before giving their opinion
on who is entitled to what and what the school should do. This has complicated matters on my
campus more than once when the parents are claiming we are in violation according to TEA and we
are not. TEA staff should not jump to conclusions so quickly.
Write more like teachers and less like lawyers.
Cut the various levels of bureaucracy and reorient policies to the real world classroom that teachers
are to deal with.
Please take the politics out of the education and get back to education for the future voters of this
state!
TEA is currently a vacuum. There MUST be qualified people there providing guidance or we will loose
all ground gained. Education does not run itself. Listen to the teachers. TEA is needed for all special
program guidelines and most of all for accountability. I’ve been on DEC visits and seen what would
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