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By Morgan HowardStaff Writer
Both Plano and Wylie In-dependent School Districts re-cently earned high report card scores from the Texas Educa-tion Agency (TEA).
School districts across the state got their accountability ratings Thursday, Aug. 15. Rat-ings were introduced last year as a way to track success in the classroom.
Each district earns an A-F score based on student achievement, school progress and closing the gap. Student achievement refers to STAAR performance, college/career/military readiness and gradu-ation rate, school progress in-cludes academic growth and relative performance in com-parison to other districts, and closing the gap measures the percentage of different groups that performed above state goals in four testing areas.
PISD received an overall score of 91 out of 100 points, down from 93 during the 2017-18 school year. It got an 89 in student achievement, a 91 in school progress and a 90 in closing the gap.
In the student achievement breakdown, the district earned a 91 in STAAR performance, a 95 in college/career/military readiness and 90 in graduation rate.
Because the program was new last year, TEA did not as-sign grades to individual cam-puses. This year, each school got to track its success.
Plano East Senior High School posted an overall score of 89. The campus was given a 93 in student achievement, a 91 in school progress and a 78 in closing the gap.
Four PISD campuses are based in Murphy: Hunt Ele-mentary, Boggess Elementary, Murphy Middle School and McMillen High School. Hunt received a 96, Boggess re-ceived an 88, Murphy received an 88 and McMillen received a 93.
There were 52,810 students across Plano’s 73 campuses last year.
Some Murphy residents at-tend Wylie schools. TEA gave Wylie ISD a score of 93, a de-crease from the 95 it got last year.
WISD earned a 95 in student achievement, a 91 in school progress and an 88 in clos-
ing the gap. Within student achievement, Wylie earned a 92 in STAAR performance, a 97 in college/career/military readiness and a 95 in gradua-tion rate.
Wylie High School was giv-en a 92. The campus got a 94 in student achievement, an 86 in school progress and an 88 in closing the gap.
Murphy-based Groves El-ementary received a score of 93 and Tibbals Elementary re-ceived a 91.
“I am so proud of the ac-complishments of our students, teachers and school leaders,” said Deputy Superintendent Kim Spicer. “We were able to improve nearly 4 points in the accountability system in one school year! From the inten-tional, focused instructional planning to the strong relation-ships our teachers build with our kids and our parents to the parent and community support of our schools Wylie ISD con-tinues to be a destination dis-trict in our state.”
During the 2018-19 school year, 16,459 students were en-rolled in Wylie’s 21 campuses.
For a more detailed report on each district, visit txschools.gov.
PISD posts good report card
By Joe ReavisStaff Writer
Murphy Police Department was recognized last week for recertification under the Best Practices Program of Texas Po-lice Chiefs Association Foun-dation.
Recognition was at the city council meeting Tuesday, Aug. 20, when the department was presented a framed Best Prac-tices certificate by Farmersville
Police Chief Mike Sullivan who serves on the program re-view committee.
“The Best Practices program has become the new gold stan-dard for law enforcement agen-cies,” Sullivan said.
The Farmersville chief re-ported that out of 2,400 police departments in Texas, only 157 have been recognized for meet-ing the program criteria, and only 80 have been recertified.
Recognition is good for four years, and to earn recertifica-
tion a department must submit monthly reports and undergo a TPCAR committee review. Murphy initially earned certifi-cation in 2015.
“Your police department is continually striving for profes-sional excellence,” Sullivan said.
For certification, an agency must prove compliance with 166 Texas law enforcement best practices as developed to assist agencies in the efficient and effective delivery of its
services, reduction of risk and protection of individual rights.
Standards for certification deal with having a written di-rectory of polices and proce-dures, such as internal investi-gations, sexual harassment, use of deadly force, documentation and review, pursuits, hostage incidents, searches and evi-dence handling.
MPD has 24 sworn officers and is supervised by Police Chief Arthur Cotten.
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Murphy Chamber of Com-merce Scholarship Foundation is seeking sponsorships for its Punkin’ Chunkin’ fundraiser to be held as part of Maize Days on Saturday, Sept. 28.
Proceeds from the event go to award scholarships to college bound Murphy students. Since 2006, the foundation has award-ed $96,000 to 60 students.
Punkin’ Chunkin’ consists of launching pumpkins at targets floating in the pond at Murphy Central Park. Prizes are award-ed for scoring bullseyes.
In addition, two other schol-arship fundraising activities conducted during Maize Days are Punkin’ Paintin” and Pun-kin’ Pulling. Combined, the three activities raised $5,500 for scholarships last year.
Cost to sponsor Punkin’ Chunkin’ is $250, for which a sign for the sponsoring business is placed near the event and the business name is included on all media releases.
To sponsor a scholarship fun-draising event, contact co-chair-men Maria Reilly at [email protected] or Steve Dault at steve.dault.lpl.com.
MPD certified for Best Practices
Punkin’ Chunkin’ sponsors sought
Joe Reavis/Murphy MonitorMurphy Police Chief Trey Cotten accepts a certificate from Farmersville Police Chief Mike Sullivan for recertifica-tion of the Murphy department in the Best Practices Program of Texas Police Chiefs Association Foundation.
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Upcoming EventsSeptember 18 Monthly Luncheon:
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. at Murphy Road Baptist Church, 411 S. Murphy Road, Murphy, TX. Sponsored by: Keep Mur-phy Beautiful, Speaker: Mayor Scott Bradley, will give a “State of the City” address.
Sept 28 Murphy Maize Days Event – hosted by the City of Murphy. A“Chamber Row” area will include 5
booth spaces reserved for Murphy Area Young Entrepreneurs who want to show-case their businesses. This area is spon-sored by Republic Services.
The Chamber Scholarship Foundation will host its annual “Punkin Chunkin” activity. Proceeds raised will help fund the foundation’s annual scholarships for Murphy seniors.
For more information, visit mur-phychamber.org or call 972-805-3749.
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A recently released Plano Independent School District investigative report stated that the abrupt resignation of Plano East Senior High girls’ head basketball coach Cherilyn Morris came about as a result of a sexual harassment com-plaint.
Morris, who coached the Lady Panthers for five years, resigned in April.
The sexual harassment com-plaint was filed by a female PISD staff member after an-
other alleged incident involv-ing Morris, 45, in February. The complainant contended that she was the subject of sex-ual harassment throughout the 2018-19 school year.
Morris has denied the alle-gations, but has admitted they stemmed from instances in which alcohol was involved.
The coach was placed on administrative leave with pay in March while the allegations were investigated by PISD. The investigative report was issued on April 1 and Morris resigned a week later.
PESH basketball coach resigned due to harassment complaint
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Council as an opportunity to develop leadership skills and learn about county government, as well as meeting with elected officials about issues facing their communities.
“Collin County students are among the best and the brightest in Texas,” County Judge Chris Hill said. “I look forward to meeting with these students and gathering their ideas to make Collin County even stronger.”
The council program is open to high school students enrolled in grades 9-12 in a public, pri-vate, or home school in Collin County. Students selected for the program will have the op-portunity to tour and visit with elected officials at the county jail, courthouse and adminis-tration building, as well as the State Capitol in Austin.
Students interested in the 2019-20 Collin County Youth Leadership Council should sub-mit a completed application, which includes a short essay
and a letter of recommendation, by Wednesday, Sept. 11. The first council meeting is Satur-day, Sept. 28.
The application is avail-able online at www.chrishill.us/youth_leadership_council.pdf. For more information, please contact Hilari Monk at [email protected], or (972) 548-4632.
Collin County high school students are invited to apply for the 2019-20 Collin County Youth Leadership
Youth council applications open