Now that Congress has passed a bill to ban TikTok, and Biden says he will sign it.

Do you think they will create a law that states congressmen can’t invest in this newly required forced divesture?

Nah. I didn’t think so either.

cnbc.com/amp/2024/03/14…

7) Finally, VOTER TURNOUT.

As Texas Tribune reported, primary election voters determine who leads the state bc most districts in Texas aren't competitive in the general.

But D turnout slumped in early voting this year. Will it pick up today? apps.texastribune.org/features/2024/… #txlege

Hey Apple -
I’d like backspace added to your pencil.

Scribble takes too much work to backspace when needed.

Delete isn’t the same thing.

Needs to be separate.
TIA

Thank you Charles Butt!
Love H-E-B!

“Charles Butt Public Education PAC flowed a total of $1.3M into the campaigns of 9 Tx GOP candidates, 7 opposed Abbott's vouchers, according to Scherer's number crunching.”

sacurrent.com/news/h-e-bs-ch…

Computers are now scoring Texas students’ STAAR essays.

The automated scoring engines — quietly rolled out in December — were “shown to be as accurate as human scorers.”

TEA officials did not provide information showing this result to Dallas Morning News:
dallasnews.com/news/education…

Total state, local funding per student has increased steadily. But inflation-adjusted data show a peak in 2020 and steep decline over the last four years. Read more about why and how this impacts schools. #txed

Two-thirds of recipients in the first year of Iowa's new private school financial assistance program were previous private school students, newly published state K-12 enrollment data shows. #ialegis #iagov thegazette.com/state-governme…

'U.S. gas output dropped by 17.0 bcfd from Jan. 8-16 to 90.6 bcfd on Tuesday, its lowest since December 2022, according to LSEG, due primarily to freeze-offs, which occur when wells, pipes and other equipment freezes.' reuters.com/business/energ…

Texas public school districts are now placed, once again, in the unfortunate position to consider suing the state to uphold their constitutional duty to support and maintain our public schools.

#txlege has been derelict in their duties.

Support #txed .

For all my Republican colleagues who keep talking about failed public schools, let’s go visit one, find out what the problem is, and help them succeed. Instead of pulling a few kids out of the school, it’s our obligation to help the school succeed. #txlege

Will #txlege support #txed teachers today?

Or

Will they only support Tx teachers when their rich voters get a new tax break?

Those who have 2+ students in private schools could receive more public taxpayer dollars than they pay in property taxes.

Strip #vouchers from HB1.

In the 4th special, the House just started off with their Christmas tree bill. Why wait? Just hang everything on it now. Maybe if they put a little for a lot of people in it, #txlege could wear everyone down and get them to accept it.
Eva's right; fiscal note is a doozy.
#txed

Adding new people to pay off to send public money to instead of our constitutional public schools. It does have more funding for pub schools in it, but some with caveats, and it’s 3 days until special is over. Shame on our #txlege .

If the Texas legislature had indexed public school funding to inflation, Frisco ISD could have provided its teachers with a 4% annual raise every year since 2019. The money is there and it has been all along. Our legislators can do better! #txlege #txed

Thank you Justin Holland!

This is support and maintenance of our public schools.

Tx Constitution Article 7

#txlege
#txed

Why are longtime conservative educators like me (lifelong R voter who voted for Abbott), posting and sharing this video?

Here is why:

Last Fall Gov. Greg Abbott recognized the statewide shortage of teachers, calling a special commission to address the issue. He was focused on public…

10 days into the 3rd 40 day special session Chair of House PUBLIC Education committee filed a large bill.

Many of the constitutional amendments highlight lazy lawmaking, current political agendas, and an irreverent use of our founding document.

I am only voting in favor of half of them.
#txlege