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4 hours ago, Texas Jeff said:

George Bush replaced Ann Richards as our governor 30 years ago.  Since then we have had exactly three governors.

Bush used the office to run for president.  Perry inherited the office from Bush and then wouldn't leave. When Perry finally left, Abbott got 91% of the primary vote and of course as a Republican he was able to beat Wendy Davis in 2015.   It's been ten years since then.  Abbott can probably win again if he wants and continue to serve until 2032 or beyond.

In the 30 years prior to 1995, Texas had six governors.  They used to serve reasonable terms and then bring in some other person.  Fresh ideas.

Now we have little kings that stay too long.

Sounds like the electorate isn't doing its job.

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2 hours ago, Goofyboy said:

Electorate is doing exactly what they want. They are voting against their own best interests until it affects them because Abbott said god and guns r gud.

Like I said, they aren't doing their job.

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2 minutes ago, Nivek said:

So they really want to inspect people's tallywackers.   Ladies, I guess it isn't just about men controlling your bodies anymore, now they want dick pics of us.   

The sticker is real, but its being placed on toilets by a group opposed to attack on Trans individuals by the state. Hope they put them everywhere.

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4 hours ago, Goofyboy said:

Putting this here because it’s in Dallas and the phone number apparently goes to Lt Dan’s office.

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This is some sort of joke, right?

right?

 

edit: One day I will learn to read the entire thread before responding. 

 

 

 

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13 hours ago, speed817 said:

At least he finally admitted it...

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Sucker. I already have a kid in AISD and all of that funding already gets recaptured so there!!!

Not sure how much shittier AISD can get but I am sure Abbott will figure it out. Luckily I only have a couple more years in it. 

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2 hours ago, TexPx said:

We need vouchers so more people can send their kids to Charter Schools.
https://www.fox4news.com/news/newman-international-academy-abuse

 

In Texas, charter schools are technically public schools. They don't charge tuition. 

Their "charter" exempts them from some state rules (depends on their charter), with the expectation that they will outperform traditional public schools. Their charter is supposed to get revoked if they don't do that. I wonder how many charter schools in Texas have had their charters revoked?

Charter schools in Texas have an abysmal record: 

https://www.texasaft.org/policy/funding/doomed-to-fail-new-report-shows-how-charter-school-churn-harms-students-they-purported-to-help/#:~:text=Over the past decade%2C Texas,state%2C many of them abruptly.

 

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Charter schools in Texas have become synonymous with instability, especially as the state has a 30-34% closure rate for charter schools according to a new report from the National Center for Charter School Accountability and the Network for Public Education. This trend has left countless students, often from disadvantaged backgrounds, scrambling for a quality education and straining the limited resources public schools already have.  

Over the past decade, Texas has experienced a churn of charter schools opening and closing, exacerbating the already tenuous education system. In fact, between 2020 and 2022, a staggering 55 charter schools closed in the state, many of them abruptly. For instance, Jubilee Academies Highland Park in San Antonio closed just two weeks into the 2023 school year, displacing 210 students and leaving families in a lurch to find new schools.  

Charter school closures disrupt not just students but the entire public education ecosystem. These closures are often due to low enrollment (46.8%), fraud/mismanagement (21.6%), academic failures (13.7%), financial reasons (10.1%, or other (7.9%). For every child affected by a closure, it means being uprooted from familiar environments, breaking bonds with teachers, and losing academic progress.  

Perhaps more concerning is the failure rate of these schools over time. The data shows that nearly one in four charter schools fails within the first five years, and by the 10-year mark, the failure rate jumps to four in 10 charter schools. Fifty-five percent will fail by the 20-year mark. 

In Texas, major urban districts like Houston ISD and Dallas ISD continue to experience significant fiscal impacts due to unlimited charter expansion, while smaller school districts have seen a comparatively small number of charter transfers translate into a large impact on their budgets. School districts in the Rio Grande Valley and the Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio, El Paso, and Austin areas have seen the most charter expansion over the past several years. Charter schools are rapidly expanding into rural Texas as well.  

It is clear that the charter school experiment in Texas is failing many of its students, both those who elect to attend charter schools and those in the public education system. As we continue to advocate for equitable public education, we must push for greater oversight of charter schools and prioritize investments in public schools that can guarantee long-term stability for our children. 

 

Not sure how many are shut down by the state. But 30% fail on their own for various reasons. 

 

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30 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

In Texas, charter schools are technically public schools. They don't charge tuition. 

Their "charter" exempts them from some state rules (depends on their charter), with the expectation that they will outperform traditional public schools. Their charter is supposed to get revoked if they don't do that. I wonder how many charter schools in Texas have had their charters revoked?

Charter schools in Texas have an abysmal record: 

https://www.texasaft.org/policy/funding/doomed-to-fail-new-report-shows-how-charter-school-churn-harms-students-they-purported-to-help/#:~:text=Over the past decade%2C Texas,state%2C many of them abruptly.

 

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Charter schools in Texas have become synonymous with instability, especially as the state has a 30-34% closure rate for charter schools according to a new report from the National Center for Charter School Accountability and the Network for Public Education. This trend has left countless students, often from disadvantaged backgrounds, scrambling for a quality education and straining the limited resources public schools already have.  

Over the past decade, Texas has experienced a churn of charter schools opening and closing, exacerbating the already tenuous education system. In fact, between 2020 and 2022, a staggering 55 charter schools closed in the state, many of them abruptly. For instance, Jubilee Academies Highland Park in San Antonio closed just two weeks into the 2023 school year, displacing 210 students and leaving families in a lurch to find new schools.  

Charter school closures disrupt not just students but the entire public education ecosystem. These closures are often due to low enrollment (46.8%), fraud/mismanagement (21.6%), academic failures (13.7%), financial reasons (10.1%, or other (7.9%). For every child affected by a closure, it means being uprooted from familiar environments, breaking bonds with teachers, and losing academic progress.  

Perhaps more concerning is the failure rate of these schools over time. The data shows that nearly one in four charter schools fails within the first five years, and by the 10-year mark, the failure rate jumps to four in 10 charter schools. Fifty-five percent will fail by the 20-year mark. 

In Texas, major urban districts like Houston ISD and Dallas ISD continue to experience significant fiscal impacts due to unlimited charter expansion, while smaller school districts have seen a comparatively small number of charter transfers translate into a large impact on their budgets. School districts in the Rio Grande Valley and the Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio, El Paso, and Austin areas have seen the most charter expansion over the past several years. Charter schools are rapidly expanding into rural Texas as well.  

It is clear that the charter school experiment in Texas is failing many of its students, both those who elect to attend charter schools and those in the public education system. As we continue to advocate for equitable public education, we must push for greater oversight of charter schools and prioritize investments in public schools that can guarantee long-term stability for our children. 

 

Not sure how many are shut down by the state. But 30% fail on their own for various reasons. 

 

Weird - it's almost like running a school as a private equity owned business isn't condusive to learning and stability, or something

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26 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Weird - it's almost like running a school as a private equity owned business isn't condusive to learning and stability, or something

I've seen no indication that kids from charter schools consistently get admitted into "better" colleges than those from the regular school districts.

So glad the wife and I passed on all that with our kids.

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16 hours ago, speed817 said:

At least he finally admitted it...

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"could lead to?"

That's the entire point.  Always has been.  The goal is to end public education.  Plenty of them have actually said that quiet part out loud.

The Republican Party wants to abolish public education.  If you vote Republican, you are voting to abolish public education.

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My wife works for a public school and they are getting ready to do layoffs due to the underfunding by Abbott.  She is getting informed by her coworkers now on things I have been saying for years.  She went to private school and was predisposed to vouchers before this.

 

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19 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

So then the schools will need more money to keep functioning...raising our property taxes. Thanks Gov.

lol, no, they're gonna get rid of property taxes. voila! problem solved!

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3 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

lol, no, they're gonna get rid of property taxes. voila! problem solved!

So remove our ability to control our own schools locally?

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Let me guess:  the property taxes funding AISD will drop from $1.68B to, oh I don't know, $1.4B but our recaptured funds will hold steady at $0.85B?

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4 minutes ago, Goofyboy said:


They have already done that to HISD.

The assault on small government and local control just never ceased to outrage me. I guess this was one of the few "conservative" values I thought I could count on.

The local people should be told by big brother Abbott what they should do with their own schools that their money built. You want them properly funded? Tough shit.

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45 minutes ago, TexasEd said:

My wife works for a public school and they are getting ready to do layoffs due to the underfunding by Abbott.  She is getting informed by her coworkers now on things I have been saying for years.  She went to private school and was predisposed to vouchers before this.

I went to private school my entire academic career till I went to UT.  Yet...I've always supported public schools.  Because we live in a fucking commonwealth.  We don't just educate Johnny and Jane for their sake....we educate them for SOCIETY'S sake.

But we don't have any commonwealth anymore.  Anything that even hints at the common good is "COMMUNISMSOCIALISMMARXISMDEICRTLMNOP!"  The only things of any value are things that put the self above everything else.  And the only sure test of whether it's actually putting the self first is whether it's at the EXPENSE of the common good.

TLDR: the only way we can tell if something is good for ME is if it hurts YOU.  And that sort of thing is the only thing of value in our society.

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When the state starts the voucher system, there will be an influx of new private schools. Charge exactly what they voucher is, offer crappy online education but decent sports and other activities. Toss in mandatory Christian (the real kind, not Catholic or Mormon) classes. The founder will make a fortune. There will be zero education but who cares. Look out OK, TX is coming for your education ranking.

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8 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

When the state starts the voucher system, there will be an influx of new private schools. Charge exactly what they voucher is, offer crappy online education but decent sports and other activities. Toss in mandatory Christian (the real kind, not Catholic or Mormon) classes. The founder will make a fortune. There will be zero education but who cares. Look out OK, TX is coming for your education ranking.

Yeah and nobody will hold them accountable for their failures.

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7 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

When the state starts the voucher system, there will be an influx of new private schools. Charge exactly what they voucher is, offer crappy online education but decent sports and other activities. Toss in mandatory Christian (the real kind, not Catholic or Mormon) classes. The founder will make a fortune. There will be zero education but who cares. Look out OK, TX is coming for your education ranking.

What I’m looking forward to is the kid enrolled at a ~$7500 tuition school currently, said school bumps tuition up to $10k bc why the f not. Said kids family doesn’t get any voucher money and is out an extra 2500 plus having to go to school with the new undesirables

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9 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

When the state starts the voucher system, there will be an influx of new private schools. Charge exactly what they voucher is, offer crappy online education but decent sports and other activities. Toss in mandatory Christian (the real kind, not Catholic or Mormon) classes. The founder will make a fortune. There will be zero education but who cares. Look out OK, TX is coming for your education ranking.

Oh.....so you HAVE heard of Brisketexan's FreedomEagleGunJesusPatriot Academy?  Enrollment is open today!

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1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

Oh.....so you HAVE heard of Betty Blackwell?  Enrollment is open today!

 

Fify

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37 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Oh.....so you HAVE heard of Brisketexan's FreedomEagleGunJesusPatriot Academy?  Enrollment is open today!

I assume you're online only so you can serve as many children of Texas citizens possible with fewer actual teachers. I mean, that's what all the new for-profit schools will look like, right?

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1 minute ago, Cap33 said:

I assume you're online only so you can serve as many children of Texas citizens possible with fewer actual teachers. I mean, that's what all the new for-profit schools will look like, right?

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Duh.  Online.  No vaccinations needed.  With the finest in AI instruction.  And we accept payments in crypto.

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7 minutes ago, Cap33 said:

I assume you're online only so you can serve as many children of Texas citizens possible with fewer actual teachers. I mean, that's what all the new for-profit schools will look like, right?

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5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Duh.  Online.  No vaccinations needed.  With the finest in AI instruction.  And we accept payments in crypto.

Negotiate a bulk subscription from Udemy, Coursera and Khan Academy. Then you don’t even need teachers. If everyone graduates with the same gpa, doesn’t that make everyone top 5% for UT or other top schools? Or maybe the top gpa costs a bit extra.

i would also suggest putting Don, Jr. on your board of directors and create a meme coin. Check all of the boxes and you’re be a billionaire by next year.

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Sorry to let you guys in on this but Pearson is already set up for this. Connections Academy is already an online charter school. All they have to do is roll out a “private” option with small and interactive classes.

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1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

When the state starts the voucher system, there will be an influx of new private schools. Charge exactly what they voucher is, offer crappy online education but decent sports and other activities. Toss in mandatory Christian (the real kind, not Catholic or Mormon) classes. The founder will make a fortune. There will be zero education but who cares. Look out OK, TX is coming for your education ranking.

I mean I kind of want to do this. 

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I’m already scouting stop malls in the area to open my own charter schools. If it has a planet fitness and a cbd/vape shop, extracurriculars are already taken care of.

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Has Abbott said anything about this or is he gonna let Sec’y Kennedy handle it?
 

(AP) - The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas has doubled in size to 48 cases, mostly in children and teens, making it the state’s worst in nearly 30 years.

State health officials said Friday in a news release that those who are infected are either unvaccinated or their vaccination status is unknown. Thirteen people have been hospitalized.

The outbreak has spread from its epicenter in Gaines County, with single-digit cases in nearby Lynn, Terry and Yoakum counties. Officials in the area also expect the outbreak to continue to spread in these communities.

South Plains Public Health District Director Zach Holbrooks said earlier this week that some of the cases appear to be connected to private religious schools

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Let me guess:  the property taxes funding AISD will drop from $1.68B to, oh I don't know, $1.4B but our recaptured funds will hold steady at $0.85B?

Recapture will increase to cover for the 100+ ISD’s whose home values are under the new $100K exemption and don’t owe any property taxes.
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32 minutes ago, Satchel said:

Has Abbott said anything about this or is he gonna let Sec’y Kennedy handle it?
 

 

(AP) - The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas has doubled in size to 48 cases, mostly in children and teens, making it the state’s worst in nearly 30 years.

State health officials said Friday in a news release that those who are infected are either unvaccinated or their vaccination status is unknown. Thirteen people have been hospitalized.

The outbreak has spread from its epicenter in Gaines County, with single-digit cases in nearby Lynn, Terry and Yoakum counties. Officials in the area also expect the outbreak to continue to spread in these communities.

South Plains Public Health District Director Zach Holbrooks said earlier this week that some of the cases appear to be connected to private religious schools

 

hard core maga country !

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39 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

This thread actually pisses me off the most when it is bumped. He’s such a smarmy fuck. 

I had some good laughs reading all the posts that must have been made on the football board before it was moved here. But usually I skip this thread because it’s never any good news when it gets bumped.

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From 1997

https://www.texasobserver.org/molly-ivins-school-vouchers-1997/

Three strikes and you’re out? Watch Texas spend more on prisons than it does on schools. Thinking of making your tax structure more regressive? Come to the Lone Star State and see how it’s done.
The latest brainstorm to afflict our friendly pols in Austin is school vouchers. Consider the beauty of this nifty scheme as it might eventually be worked out under the guidance of the Texas Lege. To improve the public schools (I swear, that’s how the advocates are advertising this lunacy):
■We give vouchers to all the students who are already in private or religious schools around the state. Right there, before anybody else even gets a voucher, we will have taken, say, $1 billion out of the budget for our public schools. Shrewd move, eh?
■We also give all the kids now in public school a voucher, thus theoretically enabling these children to attend the schools of their parents’ choice: Unfortunately, private schools might find themselves under no obligation to accept any of our kids; they could be rejected because of their religious affiliation, their disabilities, on the grounds that they’re not bright enough, because the school administrators don’t like their looks—any reason not specifically excluded by law.



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