New Caney ISD Board of Trustees Position 1 • Candidate Q & A
Yavonne Q. Martinez
Experience: Former educator
Top priorities:
1. Ensuring that teachers and staff can explore alternative programs to enhance their students
2. Ensuring that parents and guardians feel comfortable with the education opportunities
3. Exploring avenues to make NCISD one of the top districts offering recognizable quality education
Elizabeth Rhoden Harrell
Experience: Former New Caney ISD board of trustee
Top priorities:
1. Improving support staff pay
2. Continuing to prepare our students for post high school graduate world
3. Managing the explosive growth of the district
How will you help NCISD improve amid rapid student growth?
Martinez: This year there are approximately 15,000 students in NCISD, and approximately 60 percent of them are economically disadvantaged. In order to improve the district’s standards for these current and future students, we will need to focus on the five domains of the Texas Education Agency's A-F system—student achievement, student progress, closing achievement gaps, postsecondary readiness, and community and student engagement—and any future changes within that system.
Harrell: Managing growth at such a fast rate is very difficult. I want to manage that growth positively not just by building schools to house the influx of new students, but to maintain high-quality standards when it comes to staffing at all levels. Staffing must be adequate for each campus and not overwhelm teachers with overcrowded classrooms.
Propositions, Other Local Elections
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, TEXAS JUSTICE OF THE PEACE PRECINCT 4 LOCAL OPTION ELECTION TO LEGALIZE
The legal sale of all alcoholic beverages including mixed beverages.
City of Houston Proposition A
The issuance of $1,010,000,000 pension obligation bonds for the purpose of funding a portion of the unfunded liability of the city with respect to the Houston Police Officers' Pension System and the Houston Municipal Employees Pension System as contemplated by the pension reform plan contained in Senate Bill 2190 [adopted in the 85th Texas Legislature, regular session), and the levying of taxes sufficient for the payment thereof and interest thereon.
City of Houston Proposition B
The issuance of $159,000,000 public safety improvement bonds for the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation and equipment of public safety permanent improvements for the police, and fire departments and the levying of taxes sufficient for the payment thereof and interest thereon.
City of Houston Proposition C
The issuance of $104,000,000 park improvement bonds for the conservation, improvement, acquisition, construction and equipment of neighborhood parks, recreational facilities and bayous, including such green spaces along all bayous to create an integrated system of bayou walking, running and bicycle trails to enhance, preserve and protect the health of citizens, water quality, natural habitat and native wildlife and the levying of taxes sufficient for the payment thereof and interest thereon.
City of Houston Proposition D
The issuance of $109,000,000 public facility improvement bonds for the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, remediation and equipment of permanent improvements that support public health and wellness, sanitation and other essential governmental and general services of the city and the levying of taxes sufficient for the payment thereof and interest thereon.
City of Houston Proposition E
The issuance of $123,000,000 library improvement bonds for the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation and equipment of the public library system, and the levying of taxes sufficient for the payment thereof and interest thereon.
