Rep. Harold Dutton (D- Houston) made a statement this week after hearing the educrat lobby trash one of his education reform bills. He said: “There are some children whose names we probably don’t even know, whose faces we never will see. But they are depending on us nonetheless to do something that changes their future. [...]
UPDATE: Charter School Bill Passes Senate Sen. Dan Patrick was successful in passing a charter school bill which will provide for more charter schools in Texas, and provides an avenue for charter schools to purchase unused public school facilities. These are good for Texas students. Today, Texas charter schools are limited to 215 (except for [...]
CSCOPE Controversy Continues By Peggy Venable CSCOPE is the hottest topic across the state. And many Texans have never heard of it, though most of the school districts in Texas use it. What is CSCOPE? It is a set of lesson plans K-12 written under the direction of the Regional Education Service Centers (ESC’s). It [...]
There are currently over 315,000 children trapped in over 500 failing schools in our state. Yet, today 103 of our Texas House members voted in support of Representative Abel Herrero’s anti-school choice amendment (#95) to Senate Bill 1 (State Budget). Amendment 95 reads: “Use of Appropriated Funds for School Vouchers or to Support Tax-Credit Scholarships [...]
By: Peggy Venable Failing schools represent a betrayal of the trust we have placed in public education. More funding has not been the answer. Over a ten-year period, Texas school funding grew at a rate of five times faster than the student enrollment growth and we still have kids assigned by government – based solely [...]
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