The Texas Education Agency, even before taking over direct control of Marlin ISD, had made noises about merging it into either Rosebud-Lott or Chilton ISD. But never has a larger school district been merged into a smaller. That said, with aggressive recruiting of transfers, Rosebud may be as big as Marlin now. But, it still doesn't want Marlin.
So, the TEA and Marlin ISD, or rather, the TEA's right hand in Austin and left hand of board of managers in Marlin, agreed TEA would run the district another year.
But THIS TIME WE MEAN IT, TEA's right hand told its left.
Improve enough, or we close the district.
And do what?
Let the kids be truants all day?
Try to force Rosebud-Lott (or Bremond???? Riesel????) to take over?
==
Meanwhile, the city of Marlin has some theoretically good news — $10.6 million in a mix of grants and interest free loans to theoretically fix once and for all its water system.
What happens if Marlin defaults on the loans? Does the state take over a home-rule city? And, will this really fix the city's water problems? Ameliorate, yes, but fix?
No comments:
Post a Comment