MARBLE FALLS, TX – Let’s sit down together and have a Community Conversation about Texas’ Common Core ~ CSCOPE. Join the Highland Lakes Tea Party THIS Thursday at River City Grill in Marble Falls for a Round Table Discussion. Students, Parents, Teachers, School Administrators, School Board Members, and any interested parties are welcome to participate. Meeting […]
ARGYLE, TX – Tonight at the Denton County Republican Executive Meeting Superintendent David Thweatt from Harrold ISD in Texas discusses the school district teacher gun carry policy by CHL license holders in their schools. Reports are the audience agreed with him. He was received with a standing ovation. I am happy to know that folks are […]
WASHINGTON DC – News has been breaking all across the country and down in the grassroots level about Obama working with the Saudi’s. “An expert on terrorism says the Saudi national who was the original “person of interest” in connection with Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing is going to be deported from the U.S. next week. […]
AUSTIN, TX – By JoAnn Fleming, Executive Director, Grassroots America – We the People PAC; and for identification purposes – Chair, TX Legislature’s TEA Party Caucus Advisory Committee. Today, Governor Rick Perry made a sharp left turn. According to sources inside the GOP Caucus meeting, Perry has decided to abandon his own promises to the people […]
AUSTIN, TX – An analysis of CSHB2013 Background and Purpose Interested parties assert that student data collected by the Texas Education Agency should be made more accessible to researchers so that it can be used to improve the state’s education system. C.S.H.B. 2103 aims to provide for this increased accessibility and also seeks to establish […]
By Janice VanCleave – Teachers attending the sessions would leave with a scope of the TEKS (descriptions of the TEKS for the grades and subjects they teach). With information about the TEKS and their school calendar, teachers would have all the tools they need to develop a sequence (yearly schedule) for each subject. During the […]
I take endorsements very serious . I know that although I am not anyone special other than I am an opinionated Texas Mom with a website, I have taken on issues and now work within a very large network of amazing individuals. Because of that candidates have called asking for my endorsement so they can tap into that network.
By Donna Garner – Categories in Education: Green, Yellow and Red People. Generally, I believe there are two different types of philosophies of education; and nearly all educators, curriculum, vendors, organizations, and advocacy groups fall into one of these two categories. (3.3.13 — “Type #1 and Type #2 — Two Completely Different Philosophies of Education” […]
FORT WORTH, TX – Tonight we had an inquiry about who the “Raise Your Hand” organization is after the organization put out a full page ad in the Ft. Worth Star Telegram. Below is the ad, in case you run across it in your neck of the woods. It is interesting to note the family […]