The Panda Path staff, their families, former employees and SEITEL gathered one last time at Clay’s restaurant to celebrate the many years of service to the Spring Branch Community. We closed this chapter of our lives to welcome new opportunities! @SBISD@SbisdPreK
Congratulations to Elizabeth Rocha! Assistant of the Year at Panda Path 2024. Thank you for the amazing work you do supporting your teacher and students! @SBISD@SbisdPreK@PandaPathPk
Thank you, @GovAbbott and @ManoForStateRep, for your time discussing SBISD and public education financing. I explained to our Gov how painful $35M in cuts were to the @SBISD community and how much this community cares about our schools.
Our teachers are amazed by the amazing support HEB gives to the community and to education! This holiday season our teachers received a token of appreciation at the Bunker Hill HEB store! They had so much fun!! @HEB@SBISD@SbisdPreK
It was great to see our PK3 families together building gingerbread houses with their children! Thank you Boys and Girls Club for sponsoring this activity! @bgcghouston@SBISD@SbisdPreK@MJenParker
Great learning opportunity for our 4 year old students during their visit to the Houston Museum of Natural Science! They were amazed with the Texas Wild Life and the Dinosaur exhibit! @SBISD@SbisdPreK@MJenParker
Attendance at Panda Path has increased from 87% last year to 91.5% this year! We want to thank our parents, our teachers, and our partner HEB for sponsoring our attendance awards and for bringing HEB buddy to celebrate with us! @HEB@SBISD@jennifer_blaine@MJenParker@SbisdPreK
HEB also showed love ❤️ to our staff with such an amazing treat to celebrate Thanksgiving at Panda Path! Thank you so much for sponsoring our Thanksgiving meal at school! @HEB#HelpingHere@SBISD@SbisdPreK
Many thanks to Texas A&M AgriLife team for delivering the 8 sessions training about healthy eating habits for our families! Thank you to HEB for the gift to our moms attending the class. They loved the gift card and the HEB treats! #HelpingHere@SBISD@HEB@SbisdPreK@PandaPathPk
It has been so disappointing to watch our elected and appointed officials in TX disparage public ed as part of a narrative to push vouchers. As a conservative I feel completely abandoned by republican state leaders. If that weren’t bad enough, elected R’s are not only neglecting conservatives in public ed but they speak down to us with disdain.
This morning our local elected State Board of Education member @willhickman asked Commissioner Morath @MikeMorath about @SBISD budget troubles. I thank Will Hickman for advocating for us.
Morath dismisses our budget crisis as mismanagement of “one-time” federal funds meant to address learning loss due to COVID. In the clip Morath says that unlike most other districts in TX we didn’t understand those were one-time funds. We DID and personally reviewed that with him in Austin. He is lying to distract away from the funding issue we face. It’s lazy and dishonest.
SBISD has already eliminated over $20M in ESSER related supports including 123 positions. We did that LAST SPRING. We spent 65% of those federal $s in the classroom and our improvement in scores since COVID show the money was used effectively.
We now have another $35M to eliminate from our budget which is largely due to inflation and no additional funding. I explained this to Morath in Austin earlier this year and he acknowledged it was a real challenge.