"If we just keep putting $ into the same things we've been putting $ into, we're not going to see any new results." #SchoolFinanceTrial #TX

Discussing the importance of teacher quality and links to the performance of low-income/minority students #TXEd #SchoolFinanceTrial

Efficiency expert in #SchoolFinanceTrial - "We DO want to be Finland." Focuses on teacher evaluations and student improvement #TXLege

Thanks! RT Peggy Venable: You DO want to follow Texas School Choice . They r following the school finance trial! #TXlege

#TX efficiency trial witness mentions #DCOSP as an example of teacher effectiveness in hiring/firing process #EdReform

If we're going to get the most effective teachers, we're going to have to pay them more. We underpay our best teachers & over pay the worse.

#SchoolFinanceTrial witness: " By injecting choice into the #education system, you would see teacher salaries increase." #schoolchoice

#SchoolFinanceTrial witness on TEA "It's about the kids not about the employment patterns of a group of workers." #TXlege

Texas Schools Project - one of Eric Hanushek many #edreform projects is found here: ow.ly/gSc2d #TXed #SchoolFinanceTrial

RT @txparentsunion: RT @QRKimmy: Patrick on ed funding: "There is no longer a willingness to just write a check and hope it works." #txed...

Another day in the courtroom for #SchoolFinanceTrial - please RT to gain more followers for #schoolchoice in Texas #TXed

RT @equitycenter: The Grant Program works like vouchers but it has no restrictions on who it serves. #txlege #schoolfinancetrial

"6% of students currently in public schools would move to private schools in response to a tax savings grant." #SchoolFinanceTrial

Witness studied #Milwaukee parental choice program to see the effects of #schoolchoice - agrees that competition benefits everyone.

RT @randanmarie: #5million reasons to support #SchoolChoice - More than 100,000 #Texas students are on wait lists - they deserve an...

TX public schools could save up to $2 billion/yr if state allows families to use public funding on private schooling - ow.ly/h2wg5

today is the ruling in the #TXSchoolFinance trial - stay tuned for more updates from inside the courtroom.

Today’s ruling to not require the State to be efficient in its education system is, unfortunately, merely a continuation of the status quo.

The District Court’s decision continues to focus on adequacy and equity for schools instead of adequacy and equity for students.

Save Texas Schools or Save Texas Students? You Decide: ow.ly/hRwnA #TXLege #TXEd #EdReform #k12