Jerry Patterson versus everybody else – updated
Well it looks like my buds over at Progress Texas got into a bit of a tussle with Land Commish Jerry Patterson. Here’s the background: in the process of the Republicans in charge of the Texas...
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Dan Patrick’s other ideas: are they worth serious discussion?
When Ann Richards was governor, she had a letter written by some long-past governor of the early 1900s hanging on her office wall, in which this forgotten (by me) governor was lamenting issues...
View ArticleBipartisan education reform? It could happen [with video]
Following up on my piece the other day about education reform, we continued the discussion last night on Fox news in Austin: Here’s the original piece.
View ArticleEducation reform: parent trigger legislation advancing in the state Senate...
School reform legislation which would shorten the number of years a poorly-performing public school could continue without parental intervention is advancing in the Texas Senate. This “parent trigger”...
View ArticleCharter school bill shows common ground achievable on public school reform...
Dan Patrick’s charter school legislation passed the Texas Senate yesterday, and by the time it passed with a vote of 30-1, it was almost everybody’s charter school bill. The legislation is an excellent...
View ArticleAmazing Grace – KUT’s audio version of the tribute to Grace Garcia
KUT Radio, NPR’s Austin affiliate, was kind enough to ask me in to come in and record a two-minute audio version of my longer tribute to Grace Garcia, as part of their upcoming Texas Standard show,...
View ArticleSchool “choice:” how to get away with robbery
Here’s the playbook: 1. Starve neighborhood public schools of necessary funding, claiming that it’s to avoid tax increases due to a gloomy comptroller’s revenue estimate that was dead wrong, under the...
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