{"id":274693,"date":"2013-08-26T02:26:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T07:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=274693"},"modified":"2013-08-26T13:17:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T18:17:30","slug":"cscope-issue-debated-in-tyler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=274693","title":{"rendered":"CSCOPE Issue Debated in Tyler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/08\/vlcsnap_2013_08_24_22h47m16s144.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/08\/vlcsnap_2013_08_24_22h47m16s144-150x150.png\" alt=\"vlcsnap_2013_08_24_22h47m16s144\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-274603\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2013 You could hear the boos and cheers from outside the UT Tyler Ornelas Activities Center as a debate was held Saturday night on CSCOPE. According to KETK, everyone in attendance seemed to have extreme opinions \u2014 either loving it or hating the optional curriculum of online lesson plans designed to help teachers adhere to state academic requirements. Basically, it is a guideline for teachers to follow as they plan their year. It is used in 877 school districts across the state, nearly 80 percent of Texas Schools. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One of CSCOPE\u2019s biggest critics is State Sen. Dan Patrick. \u201cThis is bigger than a lesson plan,\u201d Sen. Patrick said. \u201cIt is bigger than calling tea party patriots terrorists. This is about an entity that was set up illegally, an entity that has spent millions of dollars of tax payers money. This is about the quality of lesson plans so we have the best for our students.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>State Board of Education member Thomas Ratliff supports CSCOPE and says he is fighting for the teachers in East Texas who need it. \u201cI\u2019m here to defend CSCOPE, and I\u2019m here to defend local districts\u2019 ability to make that decision for themselves not have the Texas senate make that decision for them,\u201d Ratliff said. One local principal says CSCOPE is extremely important for the teachers at her school. There have been rumors that CSCOPE is \u201cun-American.\u201d \u201cIt doesn\u2019t expand on American exceptionalism,\u201d said Ginger Russell. \u201cIt expands more toward one world globalization and definitely anti-American.\u201d But Ratliff defends it saying such comments are merely exaggerations. <\/p>\n<p>Senator Patrick says the problem with C-SCOPE is that it is not transparent, that it was hiding information from parents, which he says is against the law. \u201cNo one should want to support a program that hid everything behind a wall where you needed a password to get in,\u201d Sen. Patrick said. Ratliff responded, saying that the parents were more than welcome to look at the curriculum, they just could not have their own copy without paying for it and the reason the teachers were asked to sign a non-disclosure was because there are competing companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 You could hear the boos and cheers from outside the UT Tyler Ornelas Activities Center as a debate was held Saturday night on CSCOPE. According to KETK, everyone in attendance seemed to have extreme opinions \u2014 either loving it or hating the optional curriculum of online lesson plans designed to help teachers adhere &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=274693\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CSCOPE Issue Debated in Tyler<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-08 08:53:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274694,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274693\/revisions\/274694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}