The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, October 29 – At their October meeting, the Conroe ISD Board of Trustees received information from Darrin Rice, Conroe ISD CFO, and John Roebuck, BOK Financial Advisors, detailing a savings of nearly $90 million as a result of bond refunding and new bond sales. It’s a shame the Board has […]
Image: “Seinfeld” co-creator and co-writer Larry David absolutely could not wear that hat in the Conroe Independent School District’s Irons Junior High School or Oak Ridge High School – Ninth Grade Campus. The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, Texas, September 22 – During the past four days, this newspaper has received complaints from nine (9) […]
The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe and Montgomery, September 4 – Parents at Conroe Independent School District (CISD) and Montgomery Independent School District (MISD) have begun petition drives to end the forced wearing of facemasks by children during school classes and busrides. Since Texas Governor Greg Abbott has left these decisions up to each school district, […]
Kelli Ann Cox, Publisher, The Golden Hammer Are public schools the enemy within? Or are they the means to create a different enemy? As parents now have the opportunity to look at the curricula foisted upon their children through online learning during the Chinese Coronavirus panic, they’re uncovering the strong liberal and collectivist propaganda in […]
Image: Online pre-kindergarten drawing assignment in Conroe Independent School District’s curriculum, which requested 4-year-old children to provide a drawing of themselves “I take a bath.” BREAKING NEWS! The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, August 21 – Conroe Independent School District (CISD), the largest school district in Montgomery County in enrollment, faces serious criticism from numerous […]
Image: CISD’s total budget increase, per CISD, Tuesday, August 4, 2020. The single page of information shown in the slide above is the entirety of the information about proposed expenditures, which the CISD Board of Trustees voted unanimously – like a rubber stamp – to approve the budget, which requires a giant tax increase on […]
The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, August 18 – In 2019, the Texas Legislature passed and Governor Greg Abbott signed into law Senate Bill 2, the “Texas Property Tax Reform and Transparency Act of 2019.” On August 14, just four days in advance of the Conroe Independent School District’s (CISD) budget hearing, which will occur […]
Conroe, August 6 – On Tuesday, July 28, 2020, Montgomery County Budget Director Amanda Carter let the cat out of the bag! Carter provided the strongest argument of all why no governmental entity in Montgomery County should raise salaries or other compensation of government employees as they consider their budgets for the fiscal year beginning […]
Image: Just as Conroe ISD callously is raising taxes – enormously – on local taxpayers and setting them on fire economically in the midst of the COVID-19 economic depression, Thich Quang Duc set himself on fire and burned himself to death on June 11, 1963, in the middle of a busy intersection in downtown Saigon. […]
The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, April 14 – Influential conservative leader Dale Fessenden called on the Conroe Independent School District’s (CISD) Board of Trustees to utilize the school district’s reserve fund rather than increased taxes in order to operate the governmental entity during the Chinese coronavirus shutdown and threat. Fessenden issued his statement by […]