I imagine one of the first steps to establishing a state religion is to indoctrinate kids into it.
I hope she’s able to do this and then some. Teach Marxist sociology (and others) to 12th graders!
The amount of influence that Texas has over textbooks ( which get used nation wide) is immense. This is huge for the whole country.
The governor was given a lot more power than originally intended for the position. I would like her and the education arm of the gov to roll back these asinine rules that only serve to stunt the educational growth of students.
Book ban removal, removal of the absolutely racist and classist voucher system, removal of propaganda disguised as history curriculum, investing in the arts and sciences, paying teachers what they’re worth, using standardized testing to show where more focus is needed instead of where to make cuts, and so forth should absolutely be achievable and focused on
Isn’t the standardized testing and funding thing part of the federal No Child Left Behind Act?
Well, yes but also no. They made funding contingent on passing the testing instead of seeing an area that needs more resources given more
Yeah, if this can stick and be long-lasting, maybe we start to reverse the decades of damage being done by conservatives to our education system.
That’s what I like to hear
I believe this is why she won. I work in public education and even my republican friends were over Abbott killing our schools.
As someone who is witnessing this in Ontario, what did the shithead do that pushed them over the line?
Schools are cutting teachers and paras, increasing class sizes, closing schools, and running 4 day weeks, struggling with deficits, while he accumulated a $27 billion dollar ‘rainy day fund’ and spent a billion dollars on a voucher program that basically reduces the price of private schools - not enough that they’re affordable for regular people, just enough to save his buddies some $ so their kids don’t have to go to school with the riff-raff rest of us.
So the same bullshittery as here however it seems we haven’t gotten bad enough to make the average voter open their eyes. Goddamn frustrating as a parent to two boys on the spectrum.
Doug Ford and the OPC does not care about our children.
