CROWLEY ISD FAILING STUDENTS IN DUAL LANGUAGE PROGRAMS

This year the dual language programs got a boost of publicity and caring from administration with he roll out of the choice schools.  It needed a boost because it has been virtually non-existent nor a major contributing factor to the overall academic improvement of the district.

Let's see.. you have the two programs at two opposite ends of the district where the leaders are not versed in how to run it and did not show much care to support it.  Suddenly attention and marketing is taking place to save it from extinction.  Issues are low classes because of lack of recruiting for years, no fidelity to the model used by many districts and no instructional support nor resources.

For the most part I believe a lot of the public does not even know what they are... the less you know the better for the administration to say things are ok.. remember they like to keep things quiet...

The worse part of this is that students at these two schools, Deer Creek and Oakmont, are not being serviced in the language that they dominate the most or speak.  We have spanish speaking students who are autistic, dyslexic and/or need additional services and the district turns a blind eye because of the cost related to providing services.  Several problems here, the district does not have a spanish speaking diagnostician, any spanish speaking support staff for reading, etc.  So students are put through the process for getting support and the district drags its feet on services until the end of the year and then they let it go for the summer.  This is a complete violation of the law and unethical to deny services for students who need support.  You wonder why tests scores are low?  Well because students are not receiving what they need.
Same issues at other schools for students who are 504 and because the district does not enforce it's procedures, students are getting lost and not receiving services.  One way to solve it for people to be held accountable for maintaining the information in student folders and passing it along but because most of the people are good with the top administrators they just sit and don't even look inside the folders to see what students need.

Parents, ask your school to see what services are being provided if your child has been identified as 504, SPED, LEP, etc.  Ask the schools to show you documentation of when meetings were held because you have to be present or at least be invited.  We can tell you just like at Oakmont, those meetings did not happen.  Ask to see your childs folder and know that your child cannot fail because of the indifference of the district.  You have the right to grieve or get an attorney and file suit.  Let's just say the district cares more about giving jobs to their buddies than helping your child.  If you don't believe us.. stop by your school and requests documentation.

FAILURE IS AN OPTION AT CROWLEY ISD---thank your superintendent, deputy and academic officer for the failures... they like their paycheck and so why fix what is broken.. they don't have children in the district.