Pittsburg ISD Web Site

In its "Asked the Editor" column in the Pittsburg Gazette on Thursday, March 13, the paper reported, according to an ISD source, that the Pittsburg ISD Web Site had been fully updated. I have just checked the site and can find no up dates at all. In my opinion, there is not one piece of information on the site that is helpful to the public in general and tax payers in particular. For example, I did not see a breakdown of students per grade, an enrollment trend by grade or any information on "Cost Per Pupil" compared to other schools in the region. To give the ISD benefit of the doubt, maybe it is just too difficult to maintain a web site that is current and helpful and usefull. On the other "cynical" hand, maybe it's better for the ISD to keep the public and especially the property tax payers of Camp County in the dark.

I also noticed that a bio has still not been posted for Mr. Mitch Carter, Board of Trustee (School Board Member). I suppose that writing a short bio can be a difficult thing to do. I just find it odd that one of the most liberal School Board members has the time to work on and help to propose a 30-year tax burden on the property tax payers of Camp County but doesn't have the time to tell us something about himself.