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Galveston ISD wonders why West Texas school district will provide correctional educational services for island boot camp

Galveston ISD never cared much about correctional educational services until the tiny Iraan-Sheffield ISD from West Texas bid to provide them at the Seaborne ChalleNGe Corps, "a military-style program for troubled teens" operated by the Texas National Guard on the island. But locals wonder "why the Galveston public school district was not offered opportunity to teach students in its own jurisdiction." According to the Galveston Daily News ("Seaborne, West Texas district deal strike nerve," July 15):Michael Blalock, deputy executive director of the adjutant general?s office, which oversees all the state military forces including the corps, said the West Texas school district was chosen because it has experience teaching troubled teens in a Texas Youth Commission facility in Sheffield...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 16, 2008 (boomark / email).