To: Manor ISD School Board
We want to keep Superintendent Kevin Brackmeyer
Please help us save the BEST thing that ever happened to Manor ISD
Why is this important?
Manor Superintendent Kevin Brackmeyer’s job may be in jeopardy, one year after being appointed to the post.
Trustees will meet behind closed doors to discuss appointing an interim superintendent, but any board action must take place in open session. The agenda doesn’t explain why the board is considering replacing the district leader, but previous board meetings hint that trustees have been discussing Brackmeyer for months.
Tuesday’s meeting will be the second time this month that trustees have discussed the superintendent in closed session and at least the third time in the past four months. On Jan. 13, the board discussed the status of Brackmeyer’s contract but took no action. In October, the board deliberated in executive session, but took no action, on the “appointment, employment, evaluation, duties, discipline or dismissal of a public officer or employee, including the duties, assignment and responsibility of the superintendent.”
Before the October meeting, the last time the superintendent was discussed behind closed doors was in July, when the board conducted the superintendent evaluation, according to board agendas.
Brackmeyer’s current contract runs through the end of 2015. He earns a base salary of $168,302 and received a 3 percent raise in July with the other district employees.
Brackmeyer and board President Desiree Cornelius-Fisher did not respond to requests for comment.
This past January, the board appointed Brackmeyer as superintendent to replace Andrew Kim, who left for the larger, 19,000-student Comal school district in July 2012. Brackmeyer served as interim superintendent for six months before being appointed, and previously was the principal at Manor High School since 2009. During his tenure, the school improved and was rated by the state academically acceptable in 2010, the first time in four years it had not been rated unacceptable.
About 86 percent of the Manor district’s 8,600 students are Hispanic and black, and 77 percent of all students come from low-income families. Nearly one-third of all students speak little to no English.
The district had academic struggles for years, with multiple under-performing schools, but has seen improvement in test scores and graduation rates in recent years. The success of the district’s second regular high school, Manor New Tech, which boasts a 100 percent graduation rate, has attracted national attention. In 2010, U.S. Secretary Arne Duncan called the school “a model for reaching underserved youth.”
More recently, President Barack Obama visited the school in May, recognizing the school for providing largely underprivileged students “the real-world skills they need for college and beyond.
Trustees will meet behind closed doors to discuss appointing an interim superintendent, but any board action must take place in open session. The agenda doesn’t explain why the board is considering replacing the district leader, but previous board meetings hint that trustees have been discussing Brackmeyer for months.
Tuesday’s meeting will be the second time this month that trustees have discussed the superintendent in closed session and at least the third time in the past four months. On Jan. 13, the board discussed the status of Brackmeyer’s contract but took no action. In October, the board deliberated in executive session, but took no action, on the “appointment, employment, evaluation, duties, discipline or dismissal of a public officer or employee, including the duties, assignment and responsibility of the superintendent.”
Before the October meeting, the last time the superintendent was discussed behind closed doors was in July, when the board conducted the superintendent evaluation, according to board agendas.
Brackmeyer’s current contract runs through the end of 2015. He earns a base salary of $168,302 and received a 3 percent raise in July with the other district employees.
Brackmeyer and board President Desiree Cornelius-Fisher did not respond to requests for comment.
This past January, the board appointed Brackmeyer as superintendent to replace Andrew Kim, who left for the larger, 19,000-student Comal school district in July 2012. Brackmeyer served as interim superintendent for six months before being appointed, and previously was the principal at Manor High School since 2009. During his tenure, the school improved and was rated by the state academically acceptable in 2010, the first time in four years it had not been rated unacceptable.
About 86 percent of the Manor district’s 8,600 students are Hispanic and black, and 77 percent of all students come from low-income families. Nearly one-third of all students speak little to no English.
The district had academic struggles for years, with multiple under-performing schools, but has seen improvement in test scores and graduation rates in recent years. The success of the district’s second regular high school, Manor New Tech, which boasts a 100 percent graduation rate, has attracted national attention. In 2010, U.S. Secretary Arne Duncan called the school “a model for reaching underserved youth.”
More recently, President Barack Obama visited the school in May, recognizing the school for providing largely underprivileged students “the real-world skills they need for college and beyond.