Tour the Adolphus Rooms the Cleburne School Board Occupied

November 19, 2008

This is a preface to Harold Gentry's article "The Price of a Room for CISD". Read it after you look at the Adolphus rooms using the links below.

Background:
Cleburne ISD just spent $6464.13 for 9 rooms at the Adolphus for 3 nights. That's for 6 school board members (Jennifer Dugger did not go), Superintendent Beard and two other administrators to attend the TASA/TASB convention. This figure does not include the registration fee.
CISD has spent about this much for lodging at each TASA/TASB convention for the past several years.

Judge for Yourself:
So that you may judge for yourself whether it is extravagant for the school board to stay in the Adolphus hotel, click on these links to see the Adolphus advertising and go on a virtual tour of the Deluxe room the CISD board members and spouses occupied.

General ad for the Adolphus
http://www.hoteladolphus.com/adolphus_home.aspx

Virtual tour of rooms. Click on the link below, wait for the images to load, then click on the Deluxe room in the second row to see where school board members and spouses stayed.
http://www.hoteladolphus.com/adolphus_virtualtours.aspx#

According to the TASB website, 8,000 people convened in Dallas from the 1200 school districts and charter schools in Texas. If each of the 1200 schools spent $6464 for lodging for three nights, that's a whopping $7,756,800.00. Yes, you read it right - nearly $8 million for a 3-day meeting.

Think what even half of $8 million could buy for the students.Could not TASB arrange for a more economical convention? Could not one school take the lead in reducing their own expenses?

The Texas legislature will again consider school funding beginning in January. Keep these expenditures in mind when contacting your legislators about school funding.

Now read Harold Gentry's article "The Price of a Room for CISD."