Rick Perry To SBOE: More Charters, Career/Tech Courses
Greeting the State Board of Education and its new several new faces on Friday, Gov. Rick Perry echoed the State of the State address he gave Tuesday, calling for the creation of more public charter schools, a scholarship program that gives students in low-performing schools the choice to attend a different one, and the addition of more high school career and technology classes.
"Students have different goals after graduation," he said. "Texas' academic future will be built on the flexibility necessary to serve those different students."
Both speeches this week mark a shift in focus for Perry, who has tended ...
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Rudy Gonzales
When Perry talks of more charter schools, he is talking about taking more money out of the public arena and moving that money to preferred schools where bible teaching is not only allowed but pushed. When publican money leaves the public arena the uses can be changed or modified to comply with TEA-styled schooling of students to reflect Libertarian, Evangelical and other extremes of the fringe. The Texas State Board of Education now has two new members steeped in TEA-styled movement to move public monies out of the public arenas and into private or charter schools. Dan Patrick and Kel Seliger have already made it known they want to change the requirements for graduation and more to create double standards and roadblocks for the public student versus the private charter styled schools. Texans must be made aware of these subtle changes and their effects. Now Texans, Gear up, because Rick Perry is going to run again, and this is the Democrats best chance to remove this career politician, especially after his triumphant fall from grace in his run in the TEA-Republican Primary.
Chris Jonsson
Rudy Gonzales you have the right picture. The charter school push is is all about putting tax money in the pockets of for profit companies and breaking the teachers' union. The voucher program and charter schools mandates are an organized movement to destroys public education because it is run by government. Perry will surely be making a boatload of campaign donations for that corporate gift.
Perry should be taken very seriously he has done so much damage to our public education system and Texas state schools. If he runs again he will continue selling off public assets to his cronies.
Alice Taylor
Mr. Jonsson, Texas is a "right to work" state. There is no Texas teacher's union. There are a couple of lobbying organizations, but there is no collective bargaining, strikes, negotiated worker's protections or any of the other hallmarks that define a union.