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mbperrin

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Wed May 23, 2012, 12:27 AM May 2012

Website ban lifted Tuesday (+TSTA EMAIL) Teacher union site blocked, unblocked by district [View all]

http://www.oaoa.com/articles/website-87801-ban-ecisd.html

ECISD’s superintendent on Tuesday reversed a ban denying district employees access to a union website following a Texas State Teachers Association email asking employees to take a survey to gauge their morale.

Late Tuesday afternoon, Hector Mendez, superintendent of Ector County Independent School District, told the IT department to remove a controversial filter that had blocked all employees from the Texas State Teachers Association website.

But the almost four day block of the website had already made an impact and left association members disappointed in the district.

“I thought it was juvenile,” Chuck Isner said of the fact that the website was ever banned. Isner, regional president for the TSTA, later added, “Someone apparently wanted to send us a message.”


Lots more at the link. Perfect look at the arrogance and dishonesty of the administration here - they actually blocked a survey on employee morale.
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