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Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education is a direct attack on the nation’s children and teachers. Today’s Executive Order will hurt public schools in both red and blue states, and across urban, rural, and suburban communities.

I’ll be a panelist on an upcoming webinar about the state takeover of Houston ISD, hosted by AERA’s Law & Education SIG: unlv.zoom.us/webinar/regist… Join us Friday 3/21 for a discussion with takeover experts Domingo Morel, Beth Schueler, and Steven Nelson about this critical topic.

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Really glad Faith Bugenhagen Houston Chronicle picked up this story. I don’t think people get how dark things are in Tx right now. As I said in the story, I don’t think most Texans want librarians thrown in jail for books, but that’s the intent of these bills. chron.com/politics/artic…

Houston ISD has half as many school nurses as last year -- they're 130 nurses short of their staff in 2023-24. The district's response: “School nurse staffing levels are NOT a measure of student safety or health service quality." Houston Public Media houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/…

HISD will completely eliminate its Wraparound Dept, which helped students in need access food, clothing, shelter and more. This marks the formal end of a program that was once among the largest such initiatives in the country. It comes after leaders whittled it down last year

In the next 5 years, the TX voucher bill will cost upwards of $10B of public funds, despite research that vouchers don't help students, have no public accountability & no protections for students' safety or against discrimination. #SB2 #txed

The best headline I’ve seen for what just happened in Texas—and what’s about to happen in Congress to states like mine that have kept vouchers out. As I say here to Texas Observer these schemes are taxpayer giveaways to folks already in private school. texasobserver.org/abbott-trump-h…

In a March 21, 2023, community meeting held a week after the takeover was first announced, TEA Deputy Superintendent Delgado dismissed HISD community members’ concerns and reassured them that “wraparound services will be a priority.”

I stole this from Robert Mace who stole this from Axios who generated it from the Texas Education Agency website.

Faculty, staff, and students have traveled from across the state to testify against SB37. Terry Wilson why did you cut off testimony at 8:30am, silencing those who will be directly affected by this bill? Give us a chance to testify about the impacts SB37 will have on Texans!

HB 2 is not a historic level of funding (HB 72 from 1984 was $14B in today's dollars). This bill overly complicates an already complex system in order to exert control over districts. #txlege #txed

You are living through a very important historical moment. In the coming weeks and months, the United States' people will need to choose again and again which side they are on. Democracy or not. Make the choices that will make your grandchildren proud. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

Plainclothes ICE agents have arrested several asylum-seekers at immigration courts in Houston this week. Reporter Sam Gonzalez Kelly breaks down everything you need to know. And here is our latest: bit.ly/4kYRePB

Wow, what a stressful week of work. Time to relax by holding a phone beaming endless streams of horrific international news inches from my head

With no public discussion, Houston ISD's Board of Managers on Thursday approved a five-year contract extension for Superintendent Mike Miles. bit.ly/4e40G1V

HISD students' biology scores improved more than any other subject during state intervention. Ninth-grade students at NES campuses aren't allowed to take it. houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…

NEW: TX lets out-of-state students buy homes to get in-state tuition. The law has led to an industry of families paying in cash for condos, owning them for 2 years, and selling them to the next out-of-state family. Often, the students never live there: kut.org/education/2025…

Houston ISD superintendent Mike Miles has been on a victory lap about the district's double-digit STAAR gains in Biology and Algebra. But those bumps came partly from pushing thousands of poor students into less rigorous classes. For Texas Monthly texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…