Fort Bend Independent School District Board of Trustees At-Large Position 4 candidate Kevin Daniels said he supports the rezoning of the entire district and limiting class size to 18 students per classroom at every school.
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Daniels will face incumbent Daniel Menendez, Bruce Albright and Rodrigo Carreon on the ballot. Early voting begins May 2 and ends May 10.
“I am running to promote what I feel are the best ideas for our community’s children, and to ensure that voters will have a choice in this critical time for public schools,” said Daniels. “I am the only candidate on the ballot who recognizes that when teachers, students, parents, community leaders and business owners are united for educational achievement, we will transform the Fort Bend Independent school district into a district of choice that works for all of our students. My campaign is actively reaching out to leaders from all corners of Fort Bend County and will herald a season of change in the way the district engages the community, engages families and creates educational achievement for its students.”
According to Daniels, he supports “rezoning of the entire school district to equalize enrollment on campuses; limiting class size to 18 or less at every school in the district; spending taxpayer dollars first on teachers and classrooms, then on learning support that directly impacts the classrooms; fair and equitable allocation of resources to all campuses throughout the district; and most importantly transparency in the governance and management of Fort Bend ISD.”
Daniels is a certified teacher, English Language Arts & Reading 8-12 and Special Education EC-12 and holds both a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Masters of Arts degree in English and American Literature from Texas Southern University.
He lives in Missouri City with his wife and three young children and currently teaches at Lone Star College.
The question put before us is this: should the entire district be re-zoned or just a portion? The truth of the matter is that the communities of Fort Bend ISD are too dense for one neighborhood school to support its students. Therefore, somebody is going to have to leave the community! Or, are the residents satisfied with keeping their kids in the over-crowded community schools? Voice your choice by voting! It’s as simple as that!
It’s time the district give us some TOUGH LOVE and do the district-wide rezoning. Our children should not have to endure the constant rezoning.
I guess in a perfect world 18 in a classroom would be wonderful but we are not living in that perfect world.. Just ask each family if they are not faced with rising costs each week.. So is the school district. Less money coming in means something has to be set aside just as a family must balance a budget that seems to dwindle every paycheck. I worry about someone who has such lofty goals in such a bad economic time.
I think what bothers me the most about this candidate is that he appeared out of no where and is repeating the issues and concerns of several of the more involved challengers. Why was he put into this race and by whom? Was it merely to split the vote and give the incumbent backed by the superintendent another chance to continue the programs of this failed administration?
I’ve found 2 websites of interest (one from a candidate who has been very much involved in these issues over the years and not a Johnny come lately):
http://www.brucealbright.com
I also found one for Wade Watassek. I noticed Susan Hohnbaum didn’t show up for the packed public forum last night. I guess that shows what she thinks of us taxpayers and voters. votewatassek.com
Irregardless of what he said about classroom size and zoning, he has done an impressive research in areas most people would not think to be included in the concerns of school board members.
I was very impressed with his research especially the research on what other successful companies in Houston were doing regarding health care costs.
Your very much impressed with anything, and you weren’t even at the forum.
Actually, I was at the forum. I attended both forums since you think you are keeping tabs on me.
WHOA! that look in the picture is something very powerful and determined. I really could care less what he does in office so long as he continually gives “The Look” in the above picture to any that stand in his way…then I will vote for him.
We don’t need “looks” we someone with some Common Sense…. This board outside of MR. Babb have none.
Everyone threw a fit trying to rezone a few neighborhoods..he’s delusional if he thinks the whole district can be rezoned without a riot.
There’s no way to ‘equalize enrollment’. Each school has different capacities..and varying densities of students live within different radius’s of schools. You also have to consider traffic patterns, highways & fuel costs to bus kids. Also, parents like to send their kids to the school in their neighborhood if there is one.
He’s gonna piss off a lot of parents & cost us more money if he tries to ‘equalize enrollment’.
He can’t equalize resources either: 1-No equal enrollment. 2-PTO’s often donate a lot of resources to their school. What’s he gonna do? Take that money or computer I donated to Elkins & send it to Willowridge so we can be FAIR?!
18 kids/class is impossible..especially with the budgets so strained.
Also, he says he teaches English @ Lone Star College, but he’s not even listed on their online directory or anywhere on their website.
His salary should be listed on the Texas Tribune site if he works at Lone Star College..but it’s not.
With all these issues about this candidate, maybe we should go ahead and ask for his birth certificate also..just to be sure.
I totally agree with you on this idea of equalized enrollment. When I hear that term, the things that come to mind are:
-splitting up neighborhoods and communities.
-sending kids on a bus that goes past their neighborhood school and sends them miles away to one with a lower population density.
-weakening PTO involvement/support.
-continuously rezoning kids from school to school just for the sake of balancing numbers.
-huge increases in bussing costs.
It seems to me that the most vocal complainers about the overcrowding at Clements, the most overcrowded school in the district, are those outside of the Clements zoning. It’s not like the families whose kids go there are kicking and screaming to get sent somewhere else. If they don’t have issues with the overcrowding, why does everyone else?
with the current rezoning…they are splitting up neighborhoods and sending kids miles away. Option 3 (passed 3/7) takes children from the front of Sienna, pass Lake Olympia, pass Qual Valley…all the way to First Colony Middle School! Lake Colony, is split for the High School. One small secion (behind HEB) will attend Clements, while the other part will attend Elkins. Rezoning has not been done for the purpose of solving any over crowding or under populated schools.
My point exactly. If you try to rezone the entire district, kids within spitting distance of their school bussed somewhere else. Same thing, just on a much bigger scale.