The subject of school failure has been back in the news. Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath visited with officials from Houston ISD over the state of some of the low-performing schools within the district.
As parents, are you okay with the schools assessing mental health and behavioral competency on your children? Or, do you expect that when you send your child off to school, they are actually learning to read, write, do math well and know history? So, they have an equal opportunity at success at life.
The School Choice- “Root Crisis” don’t make headlines, are never addressed, and are rarely articulated, especially by elected officials and others with lawful authority or even media platforms. For this reason, the crises that grow from root crises only multiply, and are never dispatched.”
If you do not know all the facts, you can not critically think. Jeremy Newman is a very nice and polite 24 yr old home schooled, Public Policy Director for the Texas Homeschool Coalition (THSC), with no children of his own, who just does not know all the facts. (Please note, age correction (Jeremy is […]
I am confused. Why is the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) (a supposedly conservative think tank) supportive of Gov. Gregg Abbott appointed, and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Senate confirmed, Commissioner of Education, Mike Morath?
The question is, are Texans going to allow Texas students to be used as guinea pigs and their private personal data is being stolen and used for profit.
By Alice Linahan May 26, 2017 Don’t be fooled… Republicans and Democrats are for School Choice and Charter Schools In Texas, the grassroots networks (tea party and otherwise) are very interconnected with think tanks such as the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) and non-profits like Empower Texans (ET) at a state level, and Heritage and […]
An Editorial Opinion by A. Patrick Huff, Ph.D. Our public schools in Texas are under attack like never before. If measures taking place in the halls of the Texas Congress and education-governing agency, the Texas Education Agency (TEA), don’t reverse their agenda, public schools as we know them may soon be headed for extinction. Before […]
To the Argyle ISD School Board- Thank you once again for the opportunity to speak during public testimony. As an Argyle parent, I have spent countless hours researching, testifying in front of the Texas legislature and I have spoken to you many times over the last several years, warning about what is happening in education […]
I want to encourage all who read this open letter and share my concerns to please contact the Texas House Public Health Committee TODAY as they will be hearing public testimony on HB11 and tell them to #StopHB11