Lovejoy ISD
Exemplary District
( District Rating K-9)
Welcome to the unofficial
Lovejoy Independent School District information site. Listen to what residents have to say on the forum.
We are child advocates and watchdogs and are proud of the positive changes this web site has brought for Lovejoy ISD children. Many more changes are needed, but any progress is encouraging. The official
Lovejoy ISD school district site can be found at sm.lovejoyisd.net.
Click on underlined words to see supporting documents.
Lovejoy ISD 2006-2007 Ratings as compared to demographically equivalent districts...
ALL Lovejoy secondary students are forced to take ALL pre-AP/AP core classes.
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Families are leaving Lovejoy ISD because their bright students are bored while their average students struggle. Not ALL students are ADVANCED in EVERY subject! More... |
Lovejoy kids get less than half the budget
If kids aren't getting it, where is it going?
Lovejoy only spends 49% in classroom 2005-06 - down from 59% the prior year. (Instruction (11,95) 49.42%)
(Your kids get less than half of your tax dollars, the majority of the rest cover administrative salaries. Admin salary link )
Lovejoy
superintendent, Mr. (not Dr.) Moore makes $60,000 more than better qualified 3A superintendents with a doctorate.
Total compensation package for Mr. Moore is $196,902 per his contract. (FIRST meeting pdf , contract starting page 8 )
Lovejoy ISD tried to price watchdogs out of getting Mr. Walsh's invoices by charging $400 for the public information request.
Lovejoy ISD continues to do business with John Walsh's firm, Bestway Office Supply. (Jan & Feb 2008 - $973) These may just be outstanding invoices - time will tell. |
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Governor Rick Perry's Executive
Order RP 47, signed August 2005, requires Texas schools to spend
at least 65% of their budgets in the classroom. A Lovejoy taxpayer who has fought for Lovejoy ISD accountability was asked to serve on the Governor's Citizens Task Force on the 65 Percent Rule.
Schools required to put their check
register online (year 2010) if spending less than 65% in classroom!
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The districts say they want to increase financial transparency. But posting check registers on the Web also allows them to avoid complying with Gov. Rick Perry's executive order to shift more money to classroom instruction.
Mr. Perry's 2005 order required districts to earmark 65 percent of their funds for instruction and to minimize administrative costs. His office publicized it as a victory for schoolchildren and a step toward accountability."
Dallas Morning News: School districts benefit from check loophole ......
LOVEJOY ISD RESISTED FOR SIX YEARS, BUT TAXPAYERS FINALLY WON LONG BATTLE FOR A DETAILED OPERATIONS BUDGET! After a hard six year fight which began Feb. 2002, Lovejoy ISD taxpayers will finally get to see a detailed operations budget from Lovejoy ISD.
Please review how your tax dollars are spent at www.lovejoyisd.net/Uploads/34/misc/2007-2008DetailBudget.pdf
No Love No Joy at Lovejoy for Learning Difference kids ...
Learning Difference children at Lovejoy ISD are allocated fewer funds each year. Lovejoy spends less on LD kids than ALL
other Collin County Districts.
Lovejoy ISD has successfully reduced special education population, despite total student population increase.
Politician
explains "honest" and "dishonest" graft...
graft
1. the acquisition of money, gain, or
advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means, esp. through
the abuse of one's position or influence in politics, business,
etc.
2. a particular instance, method, or means of thus acquiring gain
or advantage.
3. the gain or advantage acquired.
“A
government which robs Peter to pay Paul
can always depend on the support of Paul.”
- George
Bernard Shaw“
Lovejoy
High School Brings
Multi-Million Dollar Commercial Opportunities for some!
Lovejoy's
new athletic director,
Jim Bob Puckett, is the son and brother-in-law of this family of "Committee of 40" appointees. Welcome Jim Bob!
Lovejoy School Board member, John Helm simultaneously served as Lucas Chairman of P&Z. Mr. Helm and Lucas P&Z redesignated to "mixed use" the 154 acre site directly across the street from the high school one month after the successful bond election. The high school site was an odd location as there was no sewer availability unlike the previous designated high school site which had sewer directly beneath (Now Wolf Creek Estates). "Mixed use" includes apartments, commercial and high density housing which requires sewer, now available due to the high school placement across the street. Lucas citizens petitioned against the land use redesignation and were ignored.
Mr. Helm voted to build the Lovejoy High School (Oct 2002), yet took steps to ensure his child remained in Allen ISD instead of returning with classmates to be the first graduating class at Lovejoy High School.
| Sue Hoffman, Lovejoy School Board member until 2007, allegedly
voted to buy the land next to her five
acre residential home site. She voted to expand from elementary
to secondary and allegedly voted to build the high school on the
site next to her property and is now allegedly under contract to sell her property as "outstanding potential
commercial property". |
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In hindsight, it's clearer why the Lovejoy school board and current Foundation members did not want the citizens to have a vote on whether to build secondary schools, forcing Lovejoy citizens to gather 3200 signatures on a petition to force an election!
Why are the School Board Meeting notes from this time period missing from the Lovejoy ISD web site despite requests that they be put online?
Why did Lovejoy ISD refuse
to mark the property where the high school was going to be built until after the successful bond election?
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School District Maps
LovejoyISD
District Map
Allen ISD
District Map
McKinney ISD
District Map
Lovejoy High School is located in Lucas,
Texas on 2170 just east of Angel Parkway.
Lovejoy High School colors are red and black.
The Lovejoy Independent
School District is attended by students in three cities:
Lucas, Texas
Fairview, Texas
Allen, Texas
There is no Lucas
ISD or Fairview ISD.
The city of Lucas is home to six school districts: Allen ISD;
Lovejoy ISD; McKinney ISD; and Plano ISD; Wylie ISD; and Princeton
ISD.
The city of Fairview is home to the school districts of McKinney
ISD and Lovejoy ISD.
The city of Allen is home to Lovejoy ISD, Allen ISD, and Plano
ISD.
The city of Lucas is home to six school districts:
Allen ISD
Plano ISD
Wylie ISD
McKinney ISD
Princeton ISD
Lovejoy ISD
Official
Adobe PDF files that have been removed from the Lovejoy ISD
web site can be found here for historical reference.
Open invitation
to the Lovejoy ISD administrators and community:
If anything on this site is incorrect
or the status has changed on posted material, PLEASE
e-mail the Site Admin
and the corrections will be made
The information on this site is being provided FREE OF CHARGE
to the public.
NOT ONE CENT OF TAXPAYER MONEY IS USED TO OBTAIN THE INFORMATION
ON THIS SITE, NOR THE COST OF MAINTAINING THIS SITE.
THE OWNER OF THIS WEBSITE DOES NOT
OWN PROPERTY THAT WILL INCREASE IN VALUE BASED ON THE SCHOOL
SITE LOCATIONS; HAS NOT AND WILL NOT ACCEPT EMPLOYMENT WITH
LOVEJOY ISD; HAS NOT AND WILL NOT ACCEPT PROFITABLE CONTRACTS
FROM LOVEJOY ISD.
Much of the information on this site is in the public domain
or has been obtained through the use of the Texas Public Information
Act, with expenditures approaching a thousand dollars of private
money and countless man hours. Thanks to all those contributors
who care enough about the kids to demand accountability and
are willing to donate time and resources to that end. more...
Please feel free to e-mail the Site Admin
with any pertinent information to post.
Finem respice, Principiis obsta
The supreme end of education is
expert discernment in all things; the power to tell the good
from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer
the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
Samuel
Johnson
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