Elect Mark Loewe
Ph. D. Physics, B. S. Physics, B. S. Chemistry
Libertarian candidate for
Member, State Board of Education, District 5
Mark Loewe's scientific background
University of Texas student comments
Texas State University student comments
Mark Loewe's efforts to improve K-12 education
Mark Loewe's responses to voters guide questionnaires and newspapers
Video of Mark Loewe and Rebecca Bell-Metereau (D) at an SBOE candidates forum
Mark Loewe is grateful to have received the votes of over 20,000 Texans in the 2 November 2010 General Election and, humbly, asks for your vote in the 6 November 2012 General Election.
Texas needs physicist Mark Loewe (L) to defeat Ken Mercer (R) and Rebecca Bell-Metereau (D).
Ken Mercer (R-San Antonio) failed to follow Garnet Coleman (D-Houston) and Public Education Committee Chair Kent Grusendorf (R-Arlington) in support of House Bill 689 (78th Legislature), which was based on Mark Loewe's proposal to allow children to permanently keep low cost mathematics and science textbooks.
Texas needs physicist Mark Loewe (L) to defeat Ken Mercer (R) and Rebecca Bell-Metereau (D).
Mark Loewe discovered errors of roughly $752 Million in the values of two Chilean international investment funds held by the Permanent School Fund (PSF). According to the Texas Permanent School Fund Schedule of Investments Held as of August 31, 2009 (Unaudited), issued by the Texas Education Agency (TEA), the PSF held 48,805 shares of the international industrials fund LAN AIRLINES SA (CUSIP 2518932) with book value $390,535,414 and fair value $581,689 and the PSF held 715,695 shares of the international utilities fund EMPRESA NACIONAL DE ELECTRIC (CUSIP 2299356) with book value $363,744,646 and fair value $1,094,772.
Ken Mercer (R), despite his duty as a member of the SBOE to oversee investments in the PSF and despite his Bachelor and Masters degrees in Business Administration, was ignorant of the enormous errors until he was informed by Mark Loewe.
Texas needs physicist Mark Loewe (L) to defeat Ken Mercer (R) and Rebecca Bell-Metereau (D).
Mark Loewe devised progressive vouchers (progressive school choice) to attract billions of additional private dollars per year into Texas' K-12 education system and to maximize the public education funds available for any child. The Texas Legislature should pass a bill to implement progressive vouchers statewide or to enable school districts to implement progressive vouchers.
Texas State Board of Education, District 5
For example, on Question 11 of the Spring 2003, Grade 11, TAKS released Science test, the TEA would have Texans believe that over 82% of the 187214 students who took the test chose a correct answer even though only 5% chose a correct answer. That only 5% of Texas 11th-Graders chose a correct answer (and some students may simply have guessed) demonstrates a deficiency in basic physics education in Texas that should be corrected, not hidden. The TEA's false statements, which serve to hide a miserable performance, are due to incompetence or dishonesty. Texans are ill-served by such incompetence or dishonesty.
The New York Times and Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported on some questions about which the TEA issued false statements.
Mark Loewe testified before the SBOE on the topic "TEA failed to correct TAKS mistakes". Christine Castillo Comer, former TEA Director of Science, informed Mark that "as a direct result of your testimony, we hired four science Ph. D.s, a physicist, a chemist, a biologist, and an earth scientist," to improve the quality of questions on statewide tests.
Texas SBOE, District 5
Questions used to determine student scores on Spring 2005, Spring 2007, and Spring 2008 TAKS tests have not been released to the public. This prevents public review of the questions and answers for appropriateness and correctness and denies opportunities for children, teachers, and others to learn from the tests. The Texas Legislature should pass a bill that provides for questions and answers used to determine student scores on statewide tests to be released to the public promptly after each test.
Texas State Board of Education, District 5
As part of algebra and geometry curricula, Texas high school students should be expected to find the volume of a parallelepiped given the lengths of three edges that meet at a corner and given, for each pair of the edges, the projection of one of the edges onto the direction of the other edge.
Texas SBOE, District 5
Congress gave away $454,393,280,417.03 of interest on our federal debt during fiscal year 2011 (which ended 30 September 2011). This give-away, of roughly $1,466 per year for every man, woman, and child, does immense harm to Americans, Texans, our children, and our grandchildren.
Texas high school students, who will soon be eligible to vote and to serve in our federal government, should be expected to know that
(1) federal debt on which interest accumulates does immense harm to Americans and Texans,
(3) voters may oppose the re-election of members of Congress who permit the growth of, or do nothing to eliminate, federal debt on which interest accumulates.
Texas State Board of Education, District 5
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Mailing address: Mark Loewe, P. O. Box 92122, Austin, Texas 78709
Telephone number: (512) 422-8229
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