Courtney Gore

Former Board Member Family Rights Advocacy, Educator, Office Manager Featherman Equipment, School Board Trustee Place 4 Granbury ISD

[Courtney Gore @CourtGore]

I can’t love this enough 😂

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

The best thing you’ll see today.. 😂

[Bud Kennedy / #ReadLocal @BudKennedy]

State Rep @WesVirdellTX of Brady, who represents Kerrville, was one of few #txlege House members who voted against funding for local siren and emergency communication systems, according to @SBellsnyder. The House OKed funding, but the Senate ignored it. https://t.co/xXDpZwmocF

[Courtney Gore @CourtGore]

I’m hopeful that meaningful reform can take place. It saddens me to see statements like this, that pit public education experts and advocates against our legislature, instead of taking constructive feedback for what it is: us trying to work diligently with our legislature for meaningful reform that effects actual, positive change for public education. It takes strong leaders to do that. At the end of the day, the devil we know is better than what was being proposed. Thank you to everyone who tried to work on this. Next session, we get to try again. Looking forward to having those conversations.
#txlege #txed #HB4

[Team Bettencourt @TeamBettencourt]

Here's the true story with what happened to HB 4, the STAAR test replacement bill. The Senate and the House had a very good CCR, (Conference Committee Report), that combined the proposed three test replacement House Bill pattern for the STAAR test with the upgraded language in my A thru F public education accountability system that passed HB 4, 23 to 8 back to the House Author, Chair @BradBuckleyDVM.

The final draft CCR was approved by all 5 Senate Conferees, myself, chair @CreightonForTX, vice chair @DonnaCampbellTX, & Senators @AngelaPaxtonTX and @CesarJBlanco, and three House conferees including Rep. @BrooksLandgraf.

Unfortunately, rising opposition from @RYHTexas. Et al, & ISD superintendents at the 11th hour led to House leadership to not putting the HB 4 on the floor, for a voter per this @HoustonChron @ByEdMcKinley story. House Education Chair Buckley noted in a interview: https://t.co/Wuh53zAhDS “We worked very well together, we had great conversations, and it was productive, but in the end, we just couldn’t get there.”

Basically, both he and the Speaker informed me that the size of the HB CCR reform and rising opposition at the end of the session made the vote less than a 💯% positive outcome.

We’ll be back next session with this CCR draft plan even more improved next session! Until then, "it's STAAR as you go!" #txlege #TxEd

[Brad Johnson @bradj_TX]

#txlege HB 2 deal, I’m told:
-$8.5B total
-$3.7B teacher pay
-$1.2B fixed cost allotment (new)
-$243MM Bluebonnet Curriculum
-$135MM teacher prep
-$318MM small/midsize allotment
-$850MM spec ed
-$433MM reading proficiency
-$153MM for CTE
-$430MM school safety
-$200MM charter facilities
-$300MM other tier 2 adjustments
-$500MM other staff

[Courtney Gore @CourtGore]

@coachkevinrich @sbellsnyder @DavidLowe4Texas

[Courtney Gore @CourtGore]

@amyDfennell @sbellsnyder @DavidLowe4Texas

[Kevin Richardson M.Ed. @coachkevinrich]

@CourtGore @sbellsnyder @DavidLowe4Texas Or the 40B rainy day fund.

[Courtney Gore @CourtGore]

@sbellsnyder @DavidLowe4Texas Exactly! The $33 billion dollar surplus certainly isn’t sitting in public school “coffers”….thats all Austin.

[Bobby Ott @OttTempleISD]

This video provides real talk analysis of the shortfalls in the HB2 Committee Substitute.

[Courtney Gore @CourtGore]

Grateful for all the educators and supporters of #txed this primary season will be interesting! #txlege

[Suzanne Bellsnyder @sbellsnyder]

What #txlege fails to understand is that the special allotments were meant to help balance inequities in the funding system they were not designed to be used as "strategic investments" to incentivize or mandate how districts must spend local education dollars.

For many years, we have been conflating education funding with education reform, which has created a really messed-up funding system. In addition, we have cultivated a group of legislators who use the funding tool to achieve their so-called "reforms."

This dynamic has resulted in the defunding of public schools, a dangerous movement away from local decision-making, and the overall decline of the education system in Texas.

Legislators are fully to blame for where we are right now. And Republican leadership in this state is the culprit. I'm unsure how to salvage this legislative session's nonsense, especially in the #txed front.

If #vouchers are the only thing they get done, it's a real tragedy, as they will have punted once again on their responsibility to address the real issues facing our public schools.

We must make the 2026 Primary an Education Election if there is hope for our future. Look locally to recruit, encourage, and support pro-education Republicans to run in the March 2026 primary. Make support for public education the one issue in which you won't compromise your vote. Change the faces, and we can change the votes, and we can get back to Texas having the best, most supported public education system in the country.

We must stand up for our kids.

[Courtney Gore @CourtGore]

Speechless….just utterly speechless
#txed #txlege

[Tim Horsley @hors7904]

@OttTempleISD @m_salazarzamora @DannyMassey44 @r0hernandez @DrMattGutierrez @Alliance_Texas @tasbo @tasanet @tasbnews @RYHTexas Also Uncertified Charter School teachers with 5+ years experienced will get $10,000 raises, while Certified public school teachers located in the same school district will only get $5,500.

-Confirmed by Committee Chairman Brandon Creighton

[Courtney Gore @CourtGore]

Here for The Librarians
#dallasfilmfestival #thelibrarians

[Mark Henry @MarkHenry717]

I am looking forward to seeing the states A-F system being applied to private schools who receive vouchers. Our state leaders ague that what gets measured is what gets fixed. I doubt private schools will welcome state oversight. You take the money, you accept the accountability

[Cameron Abrams @CameronSAbrams]

Texas House Public Education committee is underway, taking up school choice legislation. https://t.co/guhMvfCAtk

[Courtney Gore @CourtGore]

The only livestream I could find on today’s PubEd Hearing #txed #txlege

[Courtney Gore @CourtGore]

@RossSchumann We’re not small 😉

[Courtney Gore @CourtGore]

It’s amazing how this one issue (ESA’s/vouchers) is unifying conservatives across the state.

One thing is clear, Republicans want public education fixed, not privatized. Growing government and creeping into the homeschool community is not the answer either.

Republicans are united in reducing the bureaucracy at TEA and restoring local control.

Learn more about how you can get involved and make a difference:

[Suzanne Bellsnyder @sbellsnyder]

Public education serves 100% of Texas students and it’s the key to our future.

Join our Movement to keep legislators focused on public education and not distracted by the panacea of a school voucher program.

Sign up!
https://t.co/J63oTXeBmG

[Courtney Gore @CourtGore]

As the kids say…Bet

We 💜 our community schools

[Bradley W. Carpenter @Brad_Carpenter]

I dare anyone to travel through rural Texas and tell hardworking parents and community members that their kiddos are stuck in "failling government schools."

In fact, I could be convinced to contribute to a GoFundMe campaign for a bus that would take Corey, Greg, and anyone else who has uttered the words "failing government schools" on a tour of rural Texas public schools and communities.

I'll help set up the town halls, and they can tell parents this message themselves.

#txlege

[Courtney Gore @CourtGore]

This documentary was so well done. I highly encourage anyone who wants to get more informed on the attack against public education to watch it.

One common theme, Republican, Democrat, Independent, we all come together to do what’s best for kids and this documentary captures that spirit perfectly.

Our kids deserve bold leadership and I cannot thank the crew that was involved in the making of this documentary enough for telling our story.

#txed #txlege #SXSW2025

[Josephine Lee @josephineklee]

When our institutions of learning seem to be engulfed in flames, @KASNYDERFILMS new documentary The Librarians @ALALibrary reminds us how we got here and reveals, perhaps, how we can get out. Featuring @CourtGore @abmack33 @sassy_librarian. https://t.co/Uc2WcUAgny

[Courtney Gore @CourtGore]

@RC_177 @em_tabar Those are decisions made at the ballot box by voters who approve bond elections.

[Courtney Gore @CourtGore]

Just a reminder, the state - not school boards - sets a district’s entitlement.

AKA the state dictates how school boards can spend the money.

There is very little discretionary money.

Check with your recapture district teachers and see how they feel about their community being taxed and their paychecks not seeing it. https://t.co/1VzQNWz1ih

[Jorge Borrego @jorgeborregotx]

Just a reminder: school boards—not the state—set teacher pay schedules. Meanwhile, only 34% of total spending actually goes to the classroom.

Maybe the real issue isn’t funding—it’s how districts choose to spend it. #txlege