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BISD: PRINCIPAL CHANGED ERRONEOUS DEMOGRAPHIC INFO
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<span><span style="font-size: 100%; ">By <b>Juan Montoya</b></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; ">Now it's all out.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; ">Or is it?</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; ">After a few days of trying to get a clear answer from the Brownsville Independent School District about the incident at Pace High School where Principal Rose Longoria and her assistant Carla Gonzalez were reportedly seen in the same room where the exams were kept and</div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiksXx8O82IBbFjsm4P4fznx98l8D4cE_F-bUytYvkRTef4LkhqMDgSbVAWLg9IVVz_yCMIv6YuURbmXq29cGhiwCBSlbZ5dKSyuG7lbugHf0eBEKXUDRXS0zV5pHD8f0y9AnwjAsqtsPg/s200/erase.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719546672715435106" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px; " /><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; "> allegedly changing some information on them, the district finally made a public comment.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; ">Not to us, of course, but to a Harlingen television station.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; "><span style="font-size: 100%; ">Now, we had been told that only the testing coordinator at the school was allowed to have access to the exams to insure the integrity of the testing process. </span>In the Tuesday evening news broadcast, Channel 4 reported that an unnamed district spokesman vehemently denied that the two administrators were changing the grades on the 11th-grade exit exams but rather that they were correcting erroneous demographic information contained in the exams.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; ">However, the district assured the station that what some reported as changing grades was actually an innocent move by Longoria and Gonzalez to correct the students' information on the face of the exam.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; ">According to the dictionary, demographics relates to "the statistical data of a population, especially those showing average age, income, education, etc."</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; ">Could it be that Longoria caught a general error in the tests where students got their age, income, ethnicity, grade level, etc., wrong on the exams?</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; ">Until we hand in our information request to the BISD administration, we probably won't know. If a BISD administrator is reading this, can you enlighten us on what demographic info was being corrected?</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; "><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-6993033345664716090?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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