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It is morally unacceptable to expect our poorest children, who are deprived of the security and provision essential for success, to perform adequately in school without extraordinary resources and intervention. To spout "poverty isn't destiny" is cruel without this intervention.
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Vouchers Lose!
The amendment to strip the voucher from HB 1 passed on an 84-63 vote!
There will be no private school vouchers in Texas!
God bless the
#txlege
House!
God bless Texas public education!
God bless Texas!
#txed
@DianeRavitch
@carolburris
@NPEaction
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“'School choice’ is deceptive” because private schools "are highly selective."
"They will not take the economically disadvantaged, at-risk, special needs, socially/emotionally challenged child because it is too expensive to teach that child.”
#txlege
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THERE WILL BE NO DEAL ON VOUCHERS
$40 BILLION in bank! Given by Texans for Texans: roads, safety, health, water & PUBLIC SCHOOLS!
It is OUR money--not
#txlege
's or
@GregAbbott_TX
's money.
Release it only if private schools get it too???
NUTS!
Vouchers: an immoral scam.
#txed
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Gov
@GregAbbott_TX
’s voucher proposal is for affluent, white families already in private schools.
If it were not, he would hold his voucher rallies with poor families of color in inner city Dallas & Houston
#txed
public schools.
It’s wrong. The
#txlege
House must stop it now.
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Gov
@GregAbbott_TX
pushed hard for folks to attend his voucher rally at the Capitol today.
He offered to pay for them to come.
They stayed away in droves.
Only a handful showed up.
The governor is selling a private school voucher plan.
Texans aren’t buying it.
#txlege
#txed
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We take no pleasure in saying so, but our Texas state leaders…
@GregAbbott_TX
&
@DanPatrick
No longer believe in the constitutional provision of universal public education for all Texas children.
#txed
#txlege
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Americans are waking up to the voucher scam.
Turns out they don’t want their taxes subsidizing affluent private schools and indoctrinating children with religion they don’t agree with.
Who knew?
Texans know!!!
No vouchers in Texas. Not now. Not ever.
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Gov
@GregAbbott_TX
will not stop until he gets vouchers.
He plans to primary
#txlege
House members of his own party to get them.
This isn’t democracy.
This is dictatorship.
There is only one person who can stop him.
You.
#txed
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This man has forsaken common decency and compassion for crass political gain.
He is lost. So sadly lost.
Abbott said Wednesday that Texas would consider challenging a 1982 Supreme Court decision requiring states to offer free public education to all children, including those of undocumented immigrants.
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Gov
@GregAbbott_TX
is lying about property taxes, as every local elected official knows.
He dramatically reduces the Texas state portion for
#txed
, thus requiring localities to raise property taxes to fund our neighborhood schools.
This lie ends in
#2022elections
@BetoORourke
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Gov
@GregAbbott_TX
has less support for vouchers now than in regular session.
That’s why he’s pushing them so hard— and why he hasn’t called a special session.
The more he sells, the less Texans buy.
He. Doesn’t. Have. The. Votes.
Keep working, y’all!!!
#txed
#txlege
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Vouchers are dead in
#txlege
Again.
As they died over & over for 25 years
We have said for years there will be no vouchers in Texas.
Not now.
Not ever.
#txed
@BetsyDeVos
@GregAbbott_TX
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Vouchers discriminate against:
• rural kids with no private schools
• poor kids with no transportation
• hungry kids with no free meals
• SPED kids with no protections
Vouchers are private school indoctrination subsidies for rich white kids.
That you pay for.
#txlege
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Gov.
@GregAbbott_TX
is not “conservative” in any traditional sense of the word.
He does not believe in local control.
He does not believe in limited government.
He does not believe in the Texas constitution.
He believes in centralized power—
His own.
#txed
#txlege
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Texans aren’t against private schools.
Texans are against private schools funded by public dollars.
We support anyone private educating their children.
We oppose the public paying for it.
Simple, right?
But it’s lost on
@BetsyDeVos
’ bunch.
No vouchers in TX!!
#txed
#txlege
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What if
@GregAbbott_TX
called a third special legislative session to bully private school vouchers and
#txlege
House didn’t show up?
There was no quorum today in the People’s chamber.
They are tired of this.
There will be no vouchers in Texas.
#txed
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Gov
@GregAbbott_TX
makes private school vouchers an emergency item.
Diverting your tax dollars to subsidize private schools for affluent folks is an emergency for him.
Your child's
#txed
is low priority for him.
He cares about his national ambitions.
Not about you.
#txlege
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Here’s the deal:
@GregAbbott_TX
is trying to convince conservative Texans that
#txed
schools they own and run are full of socialist “woke” teachers.
What?
His bunch has run this state for 30 years.
If we’re so awful, why has he allowed it?
Texans ain’t buying it.
#txlege
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A
@GregAbbott_TX
operative asked us to “stop picking on the governor.“
We said this:
“Tell Gov. Abbott we will stop picking on him when he stops doing bad things to children.”
He hasn’t stopped.
#txed
de-funded, foster & health care a mess.
So we still call him out.
#txlege
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We thank God for the courageous stand of
@RaneyForTexas
@DrewDarbyTX
@RogersForTexas
@RepStanLambert
on behalf of Texas schoolchildren.
Against their own party and political position, they stood strong today for God’s provision of
#txed
for ALL God’s children!
We honor them!
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It’s not “school choice.”
It’s not “parent choice.”
It’s not “educational freedom.”
It’s not “parent empowerment.”
It’s vouchers.
It’s taking money from
#txed
school children to subsidize rich private schools.
And we’re NOT going to let you do it,
@GregAbbott_TX
.
#txlege
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“If Abbott calls a special session to get a voucher program, we’ve been told by a lot of House members that the opposition to a voucher program will increase. This has already been quite an embarrassment for Abbott.”
#txlege
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Any politician that attacks teachers and hurts children to advance his political ambition is not worthy of your vote.
@GregAbbott_TX
@BetoORourke
@DanPatrick
@CollierForTexas
#txed
#txlege
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"Texas ranks forty-second in per-pupil spending. And yet Governor
@GregAbbott_TX
is spending enormous political capital on promoting a voucher plan, which would divert taxpayer funds to private schools."
The voucher scam is exposed.
#txed
#txlege
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“The whole reason
@GregAbbott_TX
has called us back into a special session is to do the bidding of two west Texas mega-billionaires
@timdunntexas
& Farris Wilks who are attempting to dismantle
#txed
public schools.”
@jamestalarico
#txlege
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We have a governor who hurts families & children with egregious cruelty.
We have an attorney general who mocks God with his adultery, criminality and graft.
We have a legislature that refuses living wages for teachers.
All this while spouting Jesus in every breath.
#hypocrisy
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Teachers, this is what your governor thinks of you.
“
@GregAbbott_TX
also said students are being taught a "radical, woke agenda"—despite
@teainfo
creating the curriculum standards taught in the
#txed
system.”
He slanders you.
To get vouchers.
#txlege
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As we have said to
@GregAbbott_TX
’s ill-conceived voucher program
And to the incredibly rude, arrogant & un-Christlike
@BetsyDeVos
trolls—All. Session. Long.
There will be no vouchers in Texas.
Not now.
Not ever.
God bless Texas!
#txed
#txlege
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TX House is holding the line against
@GregAbbott_TX
vouchers!
#txlege
is equal with the governor. They are NOT scared of him!
They keep their TX Constitutional oath before God for “public free schools.”
They will stop this bully.
They will defeat vouchers.
Once again.
#txed
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“The public school is the laboratory of American democracy, where children learn to respect each other across all kinds of differences.”
Teachers are first responders to human need.
They are moral heroes who deserve our honor.
Pray today for public schools everywhere.
#txed
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Texas is a limited government, local control state, right?
Not to
@GregAbbott_TX
.
Instead of letting
#txlege
members vote their districts for 140 days every two years, he calls legislative session after session.
Big Government bullying.
The Texas House must say NO to him!
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This is a lie.
#txed
teachers work long hours at low pay to love & instruct TX children-mostly poor-all day/every day.
We won't stand by while
@GregAbbott_TX
builds his political career on our teachers' backs.
This is a willful, cruel lie, Gov.
You know it.
#txlege
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Poll after poll show Texans overwhelmingly love their
#txed
public schools.
So, why the relentless attack on them from
@GregAbbott_TX
@DanPatrick
@TexasGOP
?
That’s THE question for
#2022Elections
.
#txlege
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BREAKING
Gov.
@GregAbbott_TX
’s call for churches to observe “School Choice Sunday” and for ministers to use pulpits to promote a voucher-style legislative proposal is “out of bounds,” 21 past and present Baptist General Convention of Texas leaders said.
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Both
@BetoORourke
and
@GregAbbott_TX
believe the private school voucher issue will determine our next governor.
Gov. Abbott wants to divert public money to private schools.
Congressman O’Rourke wants public tax money only for public schools.
#txed
teachers, what do you want?
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We are once again in a prideful, wasteful exercise of government overreach, centralized power, and blind political ambition, to advance a corrupt private school voucher policy that Texans neither want nor need, because of one man and one man only:
@GregAbbott_TX
#txed
#txlege
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Texas has a $33 billion budget surplus.
Texas has 5.5 million public schoolchildren.
Texas ranks 42nd in nation in per pupil spending.
We have the clear means to prioritize the
#txed
of our children—particularly our poorest children.
Do we have the will?
#txlege
@NPEaction
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God bless ALL
#txlege
House rural Republicans and urban Democrats who form a rock-solid coalition standing strong for THE democratic institution that continues to make Texas and America great:
Our public schools.
No vouchers in Texas.
Not now. Not ever.
#txed
#txlege
Three more House Republicans — Bailes, Rogers and Lambert — have signed on to Herrero’s anti-voucher budget amendment in the House
#txlege
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We remind House members that
@GregAbbott_TX
does not vote in their districts.
But we do.
#txlege
#txed
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“School choice” vouchers don’t go to poor kids.
They go to affluent kids already in private schools.
Your taxes subsidizing private schools.
That’s why
@GregAbbott_TX
’s statewide voucher campaign did NOT go to
#txed
public schools.
It was never meant for them.
#txlege
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With all due respect, we might suggest Catholics and Baptists to sell some of their tax free property—classical paintings and downtown real estate—to pay for their church schools before they ask Caesar to pay for them.
No vouchers in Texas. Ever!
@GregAbbott_TX
#txed
#txlege
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For
@GregAbbott_TX
&
@DanPatrick
to act like kings, killing
#txed
funding & teacher pay raises because vouchers won’t fly, is tyranny.
While sitting on $30 billion.
House rural R’s & urban D’s must unite to form a public education caucus now.
No vouchers in TX! Ever!
#txlege
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Faith leaders in Tyler:
“Simply tell your state legislators that vouchers are a destructive tool, and their job is to adequately fund our public schools, not move money away to private interests.”
#txed
#txlege
@GregAbbott_TX
@DadePhelan
@DanPatrick
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“Mr. Abbott, the performative governor, really likes a publicity stunt…And yet: If the measure of a leader is how he operates in a crisis,
@GregAbbott_TX
has failed at every turn — sometimes spectacularly.”
#txed
#txlege
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There is a reason
@GregAbbott_TX
’s &
@BetsyDeVos
’ Texas voucher scam is going nowhere:
You.
Parents, teachers, superintendents, Pastors, faith and business and community leaders.
Common citizens advocating for God’s Common Good.
#txlege
House is listening!
#novouchers
!
#txed
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We have school choice now.
If you don’t like public schools, choose another option.
Most children can’t. The public school is their only opportunity.
In America, we are committed to educate them.
Our way of life depends on it.
“A general diffusion of knowledge.”
#txed
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Let us translate
@GregAbbott_TX
’s doublespeak about so-called “school choice:”
“Without vouchers, much of my electoral base, whose kids are already in private schools, won’t get the government handout my GOP competitors in other states are now providing.”
#txlege
#txed
The time is NOW for school choice in Texas.
Without education freedom, parents are hindered from choosing the best education path for their child.
This session, we’ll ensure every family has that freedom.
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We never thought it would come to this.
@DanPatrick
&
@GregAbbott_TX
attacking our Godly, servant-leader public schoolteachers in order to privatize
#txed
for their rich donors.
But such is the moral swamp we are mired in today in Texas.
Have these men no shame?
#txlege
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If
@GregAbbott_TX
wanted vouchers for poor families, he would take his message to them.
He doesn’t.
He wants vouchers for affluent white families. His voters.
So, he holds his voucher rallies in private schools.
Vouchers are corrupt. Sinful.
#txlege
say NO to rhem!
#txed
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Our great friend
@DrewDarbyTX
at back
#txlege
House mic arguing cogently for the full funding of
#txed
schools according to constitutionally and fiscally conservative principles— and against a private school voucher program that violates them.
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Of course the
#txlege
House is reluctant and suspicious about vouchers!
So are most Texans.
Same as the past 25 years.
@GregAbbott_TX
would know this if he sought the truth instead of billionaire-funded confirmation bias.
His voucher rant is wearying everyone.
#txlege
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Gov
@GregAbbott_TX
is desperate.
His voucher campaign is failing.
He thinks his rural voters want their taxes subsidizing private schools for affluent city kids.
He’s wrong.
Texans hate vouchers.
They are un-Texan.
They won’t have them.
Not now. Not ever.
@RANewsTX
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Reminder that
@GregAbbott_TX
’s voucher plan is still— STILL!—stalled in
@DanPatrick
’s
#txlege
Senate!
If Patrick allowed his members to vote their districts, it would never get to the Senate floor.
They are tired of his bullying.
And they know Texans hate vouchers!
#txed
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The number of
#txlege
House Republicans against
@GregAbbott_TX
vouchers has increased since regular session. 30 now.
As one put it, “I told the Governor I’m a hard NO on vouchers. Don’t call me anymore.”
And another, “He’s all stick and no carrot.”
No vouchers in Texas. Ever.
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A grassroots movement is stirring all over Texas to support our
#txed
kids and the teachers who serve them.
The attack on public education waged by the rightwing is backfiring.
Texans have had enough.
#txlege
@Texans4E
@TexasAFT
@OfficialATPE
@txstateteachers
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Gov
@GregAbbott_TX
vetoing bills by
#txlege
House members until they pass vouchers.
He didn’t get the memo:
Bullies don’t win in Texas.
Governor, call as many special sessions as you want. Pitch as many temper tantrums as you want.
There will be no vouchers in Texas.
Ever.
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As sad as this day is for Texas, it does mean this:
@GregAbbott_TX
and
@DanPatrick
will NOT get a voucher past this
#txlege
House.
#txed
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Gov.
@GregAbbott_TX
wants the $33 billion surplus for a property tax cut to Texans.
Wonderful.
Best way to do that is for the state finally to fund
#txed
with its fair share instead of leaving the burden on local communities like it does now.
And cut the voucher talk.
#txlege
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The same folks criticizing college debt forgiveness want you to pay for their private schools through “parent choice” vouchers.
#studentloanforgiveness
#Hypocrisy
#txlege
#txed
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Nacogdoches Republican State Representative Travis Clardy giving a strong pro-public ed, anti-voucher presentation at the
@LongviewISD
Legislative Summit.
No vouchers in Texas.
Not now, not ever.
@travisfortexas
#txlege
#txed
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Privatizers of
#txed
are sucking our schools dry of resources, re-segregating them by race, class & religion, and abandoning any pretext of the universal system of free public schools mandated by the Texas Constitution.
That’s what
@GregAbbott_TX
vouchers are all about.
#txlege
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There is no “parent choice” in vouchers.
There is only the choice of billionaire privatizers like
@BetsyDeVos
,
@KochIndustries
,
@timdunntexas
, to destroy
#txed
.
They know Texans hate vouchers.
So they use these twisted lies.
The
#txlege
House is holding! Keep calling them!
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Rep
@jamestalarico
calls out the billionaires bankrolling TX voucher corruption by name.
The chairman can gavel him down all day long.
But truth is, we are in a fourth
#txlege
session because
@timdunntexas
& Farris Wilks want it.
And
@GregAbbott_TX
can’t say no to them.
#txed
Greg Abbott has called a FOURTH special session to pass his voucher scam.
He’s doing the bidding of two billionaire mega donors — Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks — who want to dismantle public education.
Watch what happened when I called them out in committee…
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“We are Fort Worth- area clergy driven by our faith to support the well-being of our state’s children.
Vouchers will not lead us there.
Vouchers will harm Texas.”
Over 75 Fort Worth clergy in a powerful
@startelegram
piece today.
#txed
#txlege
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Just listened to a prominent Fort Worth Republican rail on for two hours on an
@Am_Airlines
flight.
She will NOT vote for
@GregAbbott_TX
or
@DanPatrick
in
#2022Elections
.
“This current
@TexasGOP
program is NOT what I signed up for.”
#txlege
@BetoORourke
@CollierForTexas
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We are inching toward a Republican revolt against
@TexasGOP
extremists in
#txlege
It’s bubbling closer to the surface daily. We are hearing it from our R friends.
@DanPatrick
will lose.
@GregAbbott_TX
will also pay for placating this corruption.
@EricaGrieder
@RobertTGarrett
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An Attorney General who is a crook:
@KenPaxtonTX
A Lt. Gov. who is a dictator:
@DanPatrick
A Governor who is a king:
@GregAbbott_TX
All glib in God-talk while they attack teachers & schools
The Texas miracle is turning into the Texas nightmare.
What a mess.
#txlege
#txed
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.
@GregAbbott_TX
doesn’t believe in public education for all TX children.
He fails miserably “to make suitable provision” for
#txed
FOUR TIMES!
He has billions. He hoards them.
He holds them hostage for private school vouchers to subsidize the rich.
Utter.
Moral.
Failure.
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1.) $40 billion TX surplus. BILLION!
2.) 4 million poor
#txed
kids
3.)
@GregAbbott_TX
wants vouchers.
4.) Vouchers fund private schools.
5.) Gov Abbott withholds money for poor kids.
6.) A Hostage for vouchers.
It’s a Devil’s Deal.
#txlege
, don’t take this deal.
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