Joe Smith: Another Go-Around
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Equity Center Radio | Another Interview With Joe Smith of TexasISD.com Hosted by Ray Freeman
Joe Smith
Today Dr. Ray Freeman, the Deputy Executive Director of the Equity Center interviews Joe Smith. This is the second time that Joe has appeared on Equity Center Radio, and, we are sure, it certainly will not be the last time. We expect Joe to be a regular contributor to our show.
Today’s interviewee, Joe Smith, is considered to be one of the few experts in the State of Texas on all aspects of school taxation, finance and tax ratification elections (“TRE”). He founded TexasISD.com after he retired early from a successful career as Superintendent of Schools for Hudson ISD, deep in the Piney Woods of East Texas. Due to a long battle with Post-Polio Syndrome the doctor made him hang it up and rest for six months. Never being the kind of person to sit still and also not being the person to listen to his doctor, Joe logged lengthy sessions in front of his PC researching school issues, reading papers and corresponding with his friends and colleagues in the education business.
While Joe was on forced sabbatical, his son Joshua was still in High School. Joshua and his group of friends were tinkering with the new found possibilities of the internet. Joe began collecting interesting articles and links to share with his friends. Josh and his friend Jason Cook showed Joe how to compose a web page and post it on the web. Joe was off and rolling. This was the beginning of TexasISD.com.
Joshua and Jason tried their hand at a little web development and were moderately successful. One day Joe approached them with an idea to take his little personal web site to the next level. They kicked around domain names for a couple weeks and finally decided on “TexasISD.com.” Of all the names this one expressed in a nutshell what they wanted of their creation, the lone source of news gathered and written along with editorial comments geared toward the education professional. They wanted to be a one stop news source that any administrator and educator could go to and find all the latest news to keep them on the cutting edge of information as they operate their school and that is what “TexasISD.com” now encompasses.
You can find TexasISD by Clicking Here.
We are pleased to have him back on our show and think you will learn much from this interesting man.
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