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Related: About this forumAbbott to talk education platform at Lubbock High School Tuesday
Attorney General Greg Abbott will promote the second piece of his education platform, Educating Texans, in Lubbock Tuesday.
The Republican gubernatorial candidate will present at Lubbock High School at 1:10 p.m. The event is not open to the public, according to Abbotts press secretary.
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[font color=green]Abbott has been going around the state squawking about his education platform--last week he was at Victoria High School in the Coastal Bend area. The one thing that is consistent though is that "the event is not open to the public." Excuse the vernacular, but it is time for Abbott to "man up" and hold these discussions in the public to field questions from the voters and stop using high schools as backdrops for the photo-ops that he uses for his campaign signs. Please inform us how you (Abbott) plan to test pre-K students so that the schools can receive a pittance of the educational funding that was cut by Governor Perry and the Republicans in the Legislature. I doubt that he has the cojones to do it though.[/font]
TxDemChem
(1,918 posts)As a parent, I too would like to know his plans for Texas education, and it had better not be prayer and guns in school.
TexasTowelie
(112,236 posts)TxDemChem
(1,918 posts)like local parents protesting.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)Gubernatorial Candidate Abbott Aligns with Education Privatizers Posted on April 24, 2014 by Texas AFT Staff
Attorney General Greg Abbott, seeking the governorship on the Republican ticket, this week more clearly than ever aligned himself with those who want to privatize the operation of public schools. Abbott recycled two ideas from the privateers playbookeliminating state education standards in the name of local control on the one hand, and on the other creating a state achievement school district that would allow state takeover of campuses rated low-performing and handover of those schools to private operators. The common thread here is the creation of more and more opportunities for private interests, especially corporate charter chains, to take over public schools and receive public funds without having to meet key state education standards such as class-size limits and teachers professional contracts. - See more at: http://texasaftblog.com/hotline/?p=3726#sthash.ok2Wqa5V.dpuf
DhhD
(4,695 posts)changing control of schools by parents and educators to business men and women? Hope Democrats were watching who was walking into the high schools to listen to Abbott. Seems like the Chamber of Commerce members would be going on in. How about ALEC and the Jeb Bush crowd?