State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, the House Democratic Caucus chair from San Antonio, disputed the governor's characterization he has been a champion of public schools and highlighted the state takeover of Houston ISD. Via TexasTribune.
hasn’t made “school choice” legislation a priority in the House, and there are questions whether the measure could pass his chamber.
That rang true for Larry Romine, a principal at River City Christian School in San Antonio. The K-12 school specializes in teaching students with learning challenges such as ADHD, dyslexia and autism. He called them “educational crack babies,” meaning children who fall through the cracks of the education system and get overlooked. Parents and students end up trapped in a public school that doesn’t work for them, he said.
“Our children are being taught a radical woke agenda,” Abbott said at the event. “There’s no reason why any students should have a woke agenda pushed on them. Our schools are for education, not indoctrination.” “It’s expensive to run schools. We’re a small community. We pay property taxes and I’m happy to support all the schools, but we’d like some of that to help us as well,” Strassman said.
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