EXPLANATION OF COMMON CORE AND KMAC:
KMAC AND CSCOPE ARE COMMON CORE!
The question of the day: HAS KMAC (CCAP) MORPHED INTO CSCOPE?
In an open records request in 2010 (October 15, 2010) I asked to "have a
total of the amount of profit from that joint venture with Region IV that
has accrued to the Katy ISD in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 up to the
current time."
The answer was $33,987.84. That's certainly not much in the way of a
split! Our board members at that time (Joe Adams, Rebecca Fox, Judy
Snyder, Jackie Birkel, Robert Shaw, Eric Duhon, and Tom Law) sold what appears to have been a valuable commodity based
upon lesson plans of Katy ISD teachers for a song! (Tom Law voted
NO!!!)
So if they changed the name from KMAC to CCAP to CSCOPE, does that
nullify the contract? Who then is getting the money from selling this pile of
garbage to 80 or 90% of all Texas school districts? The patent for KMAC was applied for on
March 9, 2005. I do not know if the patent was granted. The "inventors" of CMAC are
listed as Elizabeth A. Clark of Katy, TX, John Mathis of Bayou Vista, TX, David Lambson of
Sugar Land, TX, Tom Black of Sugar Land, TX, Linda Helbach of Katy, TX, Darla Ballard of
Katy, TX and Stephen Adams of Houston, TX. [My apologies to Leonard Merrell
for including him in my original list of inventors. He should have asked a long time ago
for a correction. MM] The patent was assigned to Katy ISD. The attorney
that is listed for correspondence is Bracewell & Giuliani LLP. If the patent were
never granted, how is Katy ISD receiving money for it? Lots of questions here.
The question
remains unanswered: Is KMAC now
CSCOPE? Or did some enterprising
people at the Region IV office or
somewhere else realize that KMAC was a
worthless software package but was perhaps
a "good idea"? Whatever the answer
is to my question, the board that approved
this contract for KMAC with Region IV, and
Region IV itself, have wasted a ton of tax
dollars on this teacher management
software. In Katy ISD alone the amount has been at
the very least 1.65 million dollars (per
Leonard Merrell in an email to me).
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Apparently the KMAC software is being marketed in Texas under the CCAP acronym. I am soliciting reports of its use in other school districts. Please notify me if you as a teacher are being made to use the software. I am incredulous that any school districts would foist this upon their teachers! It's bad enough that we have had, and perhaps still have, this software mess in Katy ISD. But then nothing surprises me anymore about Katy ISD!