A Note From Dr. Gordon Taylor
The fall of 2023 will go down as one of the strangest times during my years in public education. Obviously, it is not as strange as March through May of 2020 as the pandemic placed its bizarre thumbprints on everything, but it certainly ranks close behind.
The second half of 2023 gave us:
- political theater in Austin unlike anything in anyone’s memory,
- additional school funding appropriated in the state budget but no legislation authorizing its expenditure,
- a reset of the state school accountability system up-ended by a lawsuit that hasn’t even had its factual day in court yet, and
- admission by everyone that we are in the post-COVID world even though the pandemic still casts a shadow across everything.
With all that was bizarre then what was normal? Read through these pages and you will find stories of great things happening in Region 10 schools. Stories about people who care about students. Stories about students learning and teachers teaching. Most importantly, the stories prove that Texas public schools remain focused on the core reason for their existence. Only education through a public school system can truly democratize our society so that every child has an equal shot at success in the world and an equal voice in its governance.