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Why are longtime conservative educators like me (lifelong R voter who voted for Abbott), posting and sharing this video?
Here is why:
Last Fall
@GovAbbott
recognized the statewide shortage of teachers, calling a special commission to address the issue. He was focused on public
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@WarPath2pt0
A typical 12 year old kid’s birthday party at airsoft refutes your claim😀. Way more intense than this
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I need a list of all of the taxes I pay in which the money I pay is still mine and only for me and my personal needs as is argued here.
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Hey
@lecrae
, don't ever doubt that your work is making an impact for the kingdom. The little guy in the red hoody loves your music and more importantly the message you share with that music.
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I’m not reposting this because of some dollar figure. I am reposting this because he speaks in a way that reveals he understand what teachers endure and are doing. It resonates. Way different than all the “Educrat” nonsense and holding up basic allotment “as a carrot” for
Greg Abbott is trying to defund our schools with a private school voucher scam.
Not on our watch.
Today I joined my colleagues to introduce the Fully Fund our Future Act which will invest in ALL students and give every teacher a $15,000 raise.
#txlege
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Do folks really believe this? School difficulty has increased (look at assessment questions). We include all types of learners now in assessment results and also keep them in school (look at grad rates). Students are now earning Certifications and Associate degrees. Etc. Do some
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After reading these
#txlege
voucher/ESA bills, they should more accurately be renamed “School Chance” instead of “School Choice”.
A chance my child is selected.
A chance my child will get disability services if they need it.
A chance my family can afford any additional
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We are entering the "Establish Blame" phase of the
#txlege
. It appears with vouchers defeated, there was no support to go ahead and pass "the carrots" of school safety and basic allotment increases which would have given raises for teachers.
Ask yourself, who wanted vouchers
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Are you an educator and/or coach in
#txed
and wondering why you have received no raise for the year? Our Governor wants to make sure you have absolutely no doubt as to why
#txlege
#txhsfb
ICYMI: Governor Abbott last week bluntly said he’s holding up $4 billion in new education spending until he gets a school voucher bill. (ESAs).
This impacts both the state’s student allotment to districts and teacher raises.
#TxLege
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I’ve voted R all my life, and avoided any political posts on Twitter until I observed in Spring 2023 that vouchers were being tied to teacher pay/school funding/safety, and that paid lobbyists and some in
#txlege
were now denigrating educators. This was only done because voucher
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Special Session 4? Why not just separate the bills that contain the funding for educator salaries, safety, etc from vouchers/ESAs? Why did/does state leadership need the use a "carrot" 🥕 of educator raises and school safety for vouchers/ESAs? Why not separate the bills and let
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Pro voucher twitter “Why do you want to limit choice to only rich kids?”
Anyone reading the actual bills in
#txlege
: “Why do you want to limit choice to only the kids the private school wants?”
One of the more (most?) disingenuous things in the voucher debate are the people,
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Voted for
@GovAbbott
in every election I have been able to do so. I thought he led Texas well during Covid.
But
To now see him obfuscate and mislead on the voucher issue has been tough to watch. This is probably the only issue I have first hand knowledge about so it makes me
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As related to voucher push, remember there is no school performance level that would satisfy folks who want vouchers and cause them to relent. They will point out low scores, but want no part of
#staar
themselves. They will say schools are failing but accept no similar metric
Interesting news:
Mike Morath, Texas Education Agency temporarily blocked from revising school rating system | KERA News
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Why do all voucher bills look like they were written by lobbyists or vendors as opposed to actual student advocates?
Here are three features missing from all voucher bills in
#txlege
that would actually make them student and family focused rather than school focused:
1) The
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The new
#sb1
voucher bill from
@sencreighton
includes that schools receiving students with vouchers are not subject to the federal and state laws regarding the provision of services to students with disabilities
#txlege
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@clh_strength
Awful take. Sports is the last place in a polarized world that you can choose a team and disparage all others.
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Man I enjoyed this message
Greg Abbott and his billionaire mega-donors know private school vouchers are unpopular in Texas.
So they’ve paid for a bunch of poll-tested slogans to sell their scam.
Here’s how to debunk each slogan in 1 minute…
#txlege
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Me: I oppose the recent voucher bills in
#txlege
Them: Why do you hate families and freedom? Are you an educrat? Did you go to a private school or send your kids to one? Are you a hostage taker/trapper of children?
Me: No, I just read the actual Bill text 🤷♂️
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Breaking: Out of State Lobbyist confirms that the push for vouchers in
#txed
is largely backed by out of state PACs.
#notgrassroots
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In the school voucher debate, folks that only use emotionally charged words like “Freedom” or “Anti-Parent” are purposefully avoiding discussing the actual specifics of the proposed bills. The specifics are what is important not an abstract concept because the specifics of the
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By now you know the voucher/ESA bill (HB1) ultimately empowers private school admissions clerks over parents.
We also know why it is was done-so schools could select students. The remaining question is why do the supporters in
#txlege
keep misnaming this as “school choice”?
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Anyone calling rural republicans liberal because they don’t want ESAs is declaring their low opinion of your intelligence
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I love when elected officials are honest, even when I disagree. This honesty should be the centerpiece of their election campaigns. They should visit every community, school board meeting, and home football game etc and set up shop denouncing everyone who works and attends the
@eminentdomaintx
Public education is a closed socialist system that hurts kids and wastes money.
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I served on a board of an excellent private school for 6 years, but I do not support any of the current voucher bills. If “Texans have made it clear” why is Gov. still holding rallies at only priv schools to increase support for vouchers? It is because support is weak in
#txed
.
Texans across our state have made it clear: NOW is the time for school choice in Texas.
If you support school choice, don’t sit on the sidelines.
Join our team.
Call your state representative and tell them to support education freedom for every family.
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Saying you want vouchers because schools haven’t “improved outcomes”, while also demanding autonomy from the
#staar
test is the unabridged version of saying you just want vouchers.
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Anyone familiar with youth sports understands the competitive advantage of selective and exclusionary teams vs the “take all signups” local rec team. Folks who compare private schools to public schools are often disingenuous in their arguments in regards to competition.
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The fact pro voucher folks persist in calling it school choice when they don’t even want that is what is confusing. True school choice would be any parent taking their kid anywhere and the school having to take and serve any student who applies (using lottery for
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I voted for Gov Abbott. I think about that often. So many issues we know nothing about so we take as truth the explanations from people we voted for. Then he started talking about issues I knew about and I realized his versions of reality are much different than mine. Like 👇
To be clear:
Hugh Shine voted to stop a bill that included $6 billion in funding for public schools & teacher pay raises, more money for school security, and an end to the STAAR test.
Hillary Hickland would have supported that bill.
One of many reasons I support Hillary
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Appears some leaders in
#txlege
have no idea how facilities are funded. Voters have to approve bonds which can only be used on facilities. None of that money can be used for staff. Most in
#txed
know this, but appears some making the rules do not.
Imagine if public schools valued the classroom over the football field how much more we could pay teachers?
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A thing about vouchers isn’t that they are proposed with no or minimal accountability requirements, it’s that they are championed while public education is simultaneously burdened with extra unfunded mandates and constantly changing accountability targets
#txlege
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Some folks, claiming to be patriots, outraged when the actual democratic process does not go as they wished. Polls are not votes. Grateful for the folks who read the bill, rather than listening to what was being claimed about the bill, and voted accordingly
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Alternate view: All 3 superintendents have principles and can’t be bought. especially since there is no reason that these issues are linked. Always two ways to look at thing I guess 🤷♂️
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A superintendent job is 24 hours a day seven days a week. It impacts your life and your family in so many ways beyond just the job. In the last few years, it has become more political yet none of the other job duties were reduced. The expectations of your community are that
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If the public ed policy in Texas is a disaster, then we have to look at who has been making the policy for the last 30 years.
Fossil fuels are essential for prosperity.
Trump won in 2020.
"Woke" is a religious cult.
There are only two sexes.
Public education is a public policy disaster.
The border crisis is intentional.
Vote accordingly.
#txlege
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As
@OttTempleISD
has pointed out already,
@SenCreighton
's
#sb1
voucher bill pays private schools based on enrollment not attendance. Public ISDs/Charters are only paid for actual student attendance (not just enrollment), why aren't vouchers proposed in same manner?
#txlege
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I love this honest article from
@CatoInstitute
. It reveals that a root motivation for vouchers is to create a mechanism for folks to separate according to their values. This is why the
#txlege
bills, though touted as choice for parents, must instead retain the authority or the
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Folks who literally built their whole life work on trying to help students in
#txed
now silent (or even gleeful) when safety and basic allotment adjustments are not being made for 5 million children because “vouchers did not pass and it was a package deal”.
Who required it to
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Pro voucher
#txlege
insisted on combining school safety and school funding bills with vouchers. Why? Because the issue was weakly supported and could not stand on its on. Now that vouchers have failed the only reason that there is no movement on school safety or school funding
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A HS baseball coach once told me “Every parent wants their kid and the 8 best kids to make the team”. Why is it so hard for pro voucher folks to just admit that they prefer selection/exclusion? Everything else, including bashing schools and educators dances around that truth.
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If you are claiming that opposition to vouchers is anti-family, then surely your
#txlege
voucher plan would not allow ANY participating private entity to charge more than the value of the voucher for tuition, otherwise that would limit some families-trapping them in lower cost
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School closing (or not closing) is always heavily “armchair quarterbacked”, I think it is because most folks are not used to the complexity of making decisions that impact 1000s (or 100s of 1000s of people.
Lots of factors go into a closure decision: actual weather, forecasted
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Being told repeatedly on twitter that everyone wants vouchers. So why not put it in a special session, without anchoring it to school funding and safety bills in the current session. Vouchers in a special session should be a cakewalk, right?
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You can post all of your polls taken in primaries, but the fact that you have to pair vouchers with education funding and can’t do them separately is the irrefutable exhibit A of the weakness of support for vouchers in
#TXED
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This is a real (not a “my account got hacked”) quote from a statewide official in Texas about
#txed
. No qualifiers in this statement describing the work of public school coaches, teachers, and others
#txhsfb
.
@eminentdomaintx
Public education is a closed socialist system that hurts kids and wastes money.
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This tweet was written by an adult who is paid to tweet. AmazIng times we live in. The author believes twitter is where school districts should discuss, with unconnected national anonymous accounts, their local bond election-not at, say, their many community bond meetings.
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As a lifelong conservative, I am used to folks I vote for monitoring the usage and impact of tax dollars and government programs. Always checking for graft, misuse, results etc. Why are some conservatives in
#txlege
abandoning these principles for one issue only-vouchers?
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Now that the Governor is actively endorsing opponents of those who voted against vouchers, it seems the diplomacy on that issue is over. Can we move on and pass the allotment and safety increases that we were told were not “dependent” on vouchers.
#txlege
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Why 10,400 for the voucher now? So specific and such a dramatic increase from the 8k of last March or (even
#sb1
from 2 weeks ago). Is that a calculated number related to the percentage cut for the education assistance providers? Or what? Odd.
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I think posts like this reveal just how little support for vouchers exists at the grass roots level in
#TXED
. If I am wrong, the elections will prove that out, but I suspect that in fact, there will be more pro public ed folks elected this next cycle than ever before. This push
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Hi Commissioner Miller,
Respectfully, the pro ESA crowd spends a lot of time demanding schools receiving “vouchers”retain the right to select and exclude kids, and to not have to offer any SPED student services. Never about ALL kids. That speaks volumes.
The anti-choice crowd sure spends a lot of time demanding we save the public schools. It's always about the system. Never about the kids. That speaks volumes.
#SchoolChoice
#txlege
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If you are going to use the term “government” schools instead of public schools, then I need to know you demand that level of razor sharp linguistic usage in all areas if your life. If you still say Kleenex, or Coke, or any other term widely used and accepted for 100 plus years
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If you had any doubts if discussions about
#txed
funding are being delayed by vouchers
.
@GovAbbott
: "Once ESAs are passed, I will put on the legislative call the full funding for public education, including teacher pay raises."
#txlege
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Every post about schools being over staffed with non teaching positions that doesn’t immediately point to federal or state mandates, accountability, reporting requirements, or student safety is a post I always assume is ignorant or intentionally misleading.
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The very reasons government became “entangled” in education in the USA is because a) no one was educating those who could not pay their own way or had donations, and b) those who wanted an educated populace won out over those who only wanted an educated ruling class. I
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Does any state have a good voucher plan that matches the public school accountability, requires schools to admit applicants (or lottery for oversubscription), doesn’t exclude SPED services etc? I can’t find a bill like that in the
#txlege
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If you think the Governors
#txlege
voucher push which led him to only visit private schools and that obstructed any funding for teachers or school safety is in your best interest then vote for who he recommends, but if not, vote for these folks
Here is your opportunity on March 5 to vote for the Republican candidates that are pro Public Education. If you are a teacher or support public schools, you need to get out and vote for these people on March 5
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Reject any statement that says public schools are underperforming unless the argument is also accompanied by a metric. Then take that same metric and review
#SB8
and see if it is being applied to proposed ESA/voucher recipients and is also publicly being reported
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If the only way to get safety funding or money for teacher salaries was by forcing vouchers into
#txed
, then ask yourself, Who forced that false dilemma upon us? Who made your salary a 🥕 ? How were these things funded in prior years without vouchers? Keep this in mind as you
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The fact that you only support a voucher plan that allows schools to select/deny students and not serve special education students is the great “tell” about who you think these vouchers are for.
It would be so easy to propose a different kind of plan if the goal was rescue.
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It was only 8K back in March and just six months later it is up to over 10.4k wow! Inflation?
Expanding the school choice agenda for Special Session
#3
to include additional funding for public schools, teacher pay raises, and other key education priorities.
Read more:
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Hopefully folks are learning the primaries are what matters. If you care about public education, pay attention in the primaries. That is where all this gets decided. Governor and others out to eliminate any who opposed vouchers. So if it matters to you, vote in primaries. And
Thankful for
@GregAbbott_TX
’s leadership as we enter a critical election year. Sometimes, it’s necessary to state the obvious: School choice is good. Democrats in leadership positions are bad. In the March primary, let them know you agree.
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The competitive advantage of private schools is selection or exclusion of students. I don’t begrudge those who want that environment or any school that exercises that advantage. To deny that is an advantage, though, says much. Public schools have other different advantages
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Literally nothing has been grass roots about this voucher push. Quite the opposite. The grass roots has been the awakening of pro-public ed conservatives.
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The “coming for you” SuperPac, the copy/pasted bills, the threats to withhold any new school funding unless ESAs, and the daily twitter campaigns from out of state lobbyists all testify to the actual weak support of the voucher movement in
#txed
🤷♂️
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Breaking: While at Sonic,
@Toth_4_Texas
unwittingly reveals what all
#txed
knows , that it was unnecessary for
#txlege
and Governor to tie teacher pay raises to vouchers. Two separate issues, only combined because voucher support was weak
#sad
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If you throw around the word school choice to describe a
#txlege
bill for vouchers to private entities that still retain selection/exclusion rights, then I have to assume you are uninformed or worse trying to mislead. Words matter, the text of bills matters even more.
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This 👇
Prop 9 passing with 83% should tell you something
@GovAbbott
Texans care about their public school teachers!
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Is this how you want the balance of powers in the
#txlege
to work? Think about one day when a state leader uses this model to try to force through a policy you do not want. Will you feel the same? Everyone acts like the party they support will always be in power when they
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The
#sb1
voucher bill filed by
@SenCreighton
includes this language that any appeal of the constitutionality of the vouchers program must be a direct appeal to Texas Supreme Court. Is this normal for Education bills?
#txlege
#txed
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It’s ok to want vouchers because you think it benefits you (or your constituents), but it is unnecessary to say “schools are failing” because you don’t want to really say why you want it. No school performance rating would change your mind anyway.
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How many times should I retweet
@KingForTexas
? His words are powerful. There was no need to mix the issues of vouchers, and safety/funding. If everyone wants vouchers they will pass on their own merit. If not then everyone can take the “fight” to the primaries!
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I’ve known HD Chambers long before he was a superintendent. Great man! I support his sentiment here.
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This is spot on.
To be clear
@GregAbbott_TX
you attached vouchers to pub-Ed funding. If you cared about children & teachers you would allow both issues to stand alone, independent of one another. Why haven’t you funded pub-Ed w/out vouchers? It would pass easily like it has in previous sessions.
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Imagine you are an elected official in
#txlege
. Texas just passed a bill requiring an officer on all campuses. You also know public schools have to go through a bidding process. You find out about a purchase you think might be wasteful. You could either get the facts (Most
Eanes ISD is spending hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to buy a brand new fleet of TESLAs. Raise your hand if you’re tired of being gaslit by some districts claiming they don’t have enough money while they spend wildly on luxury cars 🙋🏻♀️
#txlege
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Folks wanting to debate the abstract of “school choice” but not reading Sb1 or HB1 which are the actual bills 🤷♂️. The bills are the issue. They appear to be written by lobbyists and not student advocates
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