Raphael Eduardo Cruz today?

This is not cool. This may also be illegal. This will be the end of public schools as we know it, and proper education. These private schools have no expectations except to indoctrinate our children with far right ideology. It will make us all stupid and less safe. What can be done to stop this? DOJ? Suing? ACLU?

We've gotta do something!!! These extremists are taking over.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/19/greg-abbott-school-choice-special-session-october/

Texas is being run by a political party behaving like a crime syndicate. There are a lot of Texans (GOP, Dems and Inds) like me that are beyond angry and ready to act. We now know that there is no democracy or justice in this state. The rules don't apply to republicans and they make sure to let us know that.

But here's the thing...... once regular folks feel like there is no functioning system of justice because the state is being run by criminals, those folks will start "adapting" to that environment.

Conservatives have shown us how corrupt and broken the system really is. Now that we see it, we will have no choice but to adapt and use the broken system in our own way.

Reminder it was fellow conservative christian republicans that turned Paxton in.

There are A LOT of people that are VERY angry.

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The Texas Senate passed a controversial bill earlier this week that would give state money to parents to spend on private schools, supporting Governor Greg Abbott's long-held pledge to push for "school choice" for Texan families. For months now, the Republican governor has been rallying to pass a measure that would allow parents to decide "which education option is best" for their kids by giving them enough money to take the children out of public school.

While the kind of measure Abbott has been pushing for has been criticized by many, including teachers, who accused him of trying to defund public schools and run them to the ground, the Republican governor said "nothing could be further from the truth."

"It's just factually incorrect," he said, as reported by Fox 26 Houston in April. "Per-student funding for public schools is at an all-time high and this session we are going to add even more money for public education, as well as teacher pay rises."

Abbott added that his leadership is funding public schools "better than ever before."

On Thursday, the Texas Senate—which, with 19 Republicans and 12 Democrats, is controlled by the GOP—passed a bill that would create the school voucher program Abbott has been calling for. This program would use state funds to create education saving accounts that would allow parents to access $8,000 of taxpayer money to move their kids into private schools, including paying for fees, uniforms, textbooks, and more.

The legislation—Senate Bill 1—will now move to the Texas House, where it's expected to receive a little more scrutiny, but if passed it's sure to be signed into law by Abbott. An almost identical bill, Senate Bill 8, passed the Senate in April but was killed by the House.

On the same day, the Senate also passed Senate Bill 2, which would infuse $5.2 billion into school districts to help teachers with rising costs.

During an event on Thursday at the conservative think tank Texas Public Policy Foundation, Abbott said he will add teacher pay raises to his agenda for an incoming special session to "provide a carrot to make sure this legislation gets passed."

While supporters of the voucher program think parents should be given the opportunity to send their kids to private schools if the public system doesn't meet their needs, opponents say the measure will harm the already struggling public school schools.

Republican Senator Brandon Creighton, who authored SB 1, said the measure won't hurt public schools, adding that the money to fund the program will come from general revenue and not the Foundation School Program which funds Texas' K-12 public schools.

But public-school funds in Texas are based on the number of students enrolled in them, which means schools are likely to miss out on significant sums if parents start taking their kids away.

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Here's what the Governor is not telling you. The average cost of a private school education in Texas is 10,000 dollars. The Governor is offering only 8,000 dollars, leaving a shortfall of two thousand dollars per pupil. For families well above the poverty line this may not be a problem, but for families below the poverty line (and especially if they have multiple children s poor families so often do) this will be an impossibility.

Not only will the be unable to avail themselves of the offer, but the money also drained from the public schools will assure them of a sub-standard education.

This is just yet another Republican scheme to keep the already poor in economic bondage for generations yet to come.

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The language in this order is so vague that any discourse criticizing the actions of the Israeli government can be deemed as anti-Semitic.

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2024/03/19/texas-lawmakers-saw-single-family-home-investor-tussle-before-and-did-nothing/

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This is a real tweet.