Updates

11/9/07- Television Host Tavis Smiley is coming to Prairie View to speak to students about community issues on Friday November 9, 2007 at 6pm in the Opal Johnson Auditorium of the Memorial Student Center. Influenced by the teachings of W.E.B. DuBois, television and radio talk show host Tavis Smiley targets youth for the future of Black leadership and hopes to inspire new leaders from five of the nation’s universities.

11/6/07- 2 out of 7 Waller ISD Board Members have suggested negotiating with activists of the Save Jones Defense Fund. While they were outnumbered, the resonance of our influence is evident and victory is certain if our support continues to strengthen and organize, making our voices heard.

10/30/07- In another show if fiscal irresponsibility, Waller ISD has hired a million dollar law firm to fight the motions made by DeWayne Charleston on behalf of the Prairie View community and Jones Elementary School. Rather than spending the hundreds of thousands of dollars the school district has wasted in the first few months of this issue on its students and the elementary school that is in need of it, the district is more concerned with making a point that they will not be held to judicial standards or influenced by the tax payers and voters that have put them in office.

10/23/07- The district attorney is investigating allegations that Mike Marcus, the assistant superintendent of Waller Independent School District, made a retaliatory threat against DeWayne Charleston- whose court action demanding equality is blocking the release of the $49.3 million in school construction money. According to an affidavit by the clerk of Waller County Justice of the Peace DeWayne Charleston, Juanita Vela, a person who identified himself as "Mike" told her by phone last week that if Charleston were to go to his "neck-of-the-woods he's liable to get shot because it's where rednecks live." Waller County District Attorney Elton R. Mathis said in a letter to Charleston that he is referring the matter to the sheriff's department. It is demanded that Marcus be fired from his professional public position.

10/01/07- State Representative Sheila Jackson Lee requested a Department of Justice investigation into the operations of Waller ISD in violation of many laws and ethics (click to read).

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