The Houston Chronicle did a great job showing you why we need to vote against vouchers. #saynotovouchers

🧵Last August, I was listening to a feed of a heated North Texas school board meeting while juggling my nightly dad duties. Which is why I was getting my 3-year-old to bed when I heard a mom make a shocking statement that Antonia Hylton and I have now spent a year investigating. 1/

1/2 Don't mess with Texas Public Schools! Taxpayer-funded vouchers will drain public dollars from our severely under-funded public schools. Truth is, Texas is more than $4,000 below the national average of per-student funding. #TxLege should be focusing on fully funding (cont.)

Let’s do math! The Texas Senate voucher proposal calls for: - $500,000,000 to be set aside for the program - $8,000 voucher per student - That’s 62,500 possible vouchers (ignore pesky fees) - With 5,518,432 in public Ed, that’s 1.1% who could get a voucher Universal 😂 #txlege

A Master Class on Failed Leadership: With a massive budget surplus at hand, Abbott is holding teacher salaries hostage amid massive inflation in a state that had 50k teachers leave their positions last yr & ranks 41st for school funding. This is not about kids, evidence, or the

It is vitally important for districts to provide teachers consistent collaboration time with their peers. And we’re not just talking about PLCs. Teachers supporting teachers results in happier, stronger, empowered adults. Teachers can provide and seek support among their

I don't understand how people can look at all the 60 and 70 year olds working retail so they don't become homeless and not think something is very wrong with the way we do things.

In 2020, gunshots became the leading cause of death for Texas youths. The number of youths — those younger than 18 — killed by guns in Texas went up from around 100 a decade ago to nearly 300 in 2022. bit.ly/3QMeQuR

It's the last week of Early Voting

Not only are "school choice" supporters disappointed, but supporters of public schools are angry. Teachers aren't getting a raise and schools across Texas are considering layoffs at a time when the state sits on more money than it's ever had nbcdfw.com/news/politics/… #TxLege #TxEd

The rampant disrespect, vulgar language, violence, disinterest, absenteeism, and low effort are not the fault of schools or teachers. Teachers shouldn’t be expected to work miracles in order to simply be adequate at their job. You want to fix schools, fix society.

My students were very intimidated by this poem by Hanif Abdurraqib. After several readings and days of annotation, when asked, ‘if poetry is not a luxury, what it is, according to this poem,’ a student wrote: “Poetry is an urgent reminder that we are all connected.”

The people in schools who are constantly asked to do more with less are tired.

📝| The New York Times published an opinion piece on the recent unnecessary Taylor Swift online discourse “It’s a tale as old as time: how it’s impossible for any woman — whether superstar or mere mortal — to get it right. It’s “Barbie” monologue (Taylor’s version): You have to have

We were about $6,999,999 short on funding for a Super Bowl ad with this same message, but maybe if everyone shares it, we will reach the same number of people?

Usher at the halftime show

Greece has legalized same-sex marriage, becoming the first Orthodox Christian country to do so.

Things teachers want to say to parents… -Take the phone away at night. Your kid isn’t getting enough sleep. -Don’t believe everything your kid says. They lie…A LOT! -Teach your kid to have some grit. •Model kind actions. -Stop blaming everyone for your kid’s issues.

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