Forrest Collins

Dad. Husband. Basketball Junkie. Jack of All Trades, Master of One. School Boarding in Aledo, Texas.🇺🇸

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

since becoming president again, Trump has promised:
-$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend"
-$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend"
-$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies
-$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms
no checks have been issued

[Forrest Collins @ForrestViews]

@sbellsnyder People need to wake up to the fact that none of these folks are actually fiscal conservatives. It’s all about funneling taxpayer dollars to their business friends.

[Forrest Collins @ForrestViews]

Nothing will fundamentally change in public education until politicians stop treating schools like factories and children like products moving down an assembly line.

Kids are not standardized products. They don’t arrive at school with the same abilities, challenges, home lives, interests, or needs. Yet we keep building policies around the idea that if every school follows the same process, on the same timeline, measured by the same metrics, we should expect the same result.

[Squawk Box @SquawkCNBC]

"The Overton window in our politics is open for all these crazy ideas," says @SpeakerRyan, "but it's closed for things like debt reduction. So, our politics are just fundamentally unserious right now." https://t.co/UoKunXMzhg

[Forrest Collins @ForrestViews]

@lynnsdavenport Happy Birthday!!!🎉🎉🎉

[Forrest Collins @ForrestViews]

@realmitchlittle I 100% agree with you that this is not a good look and it is certainly not the norm for education foundations across Texas. But if a charter school was doing this, I feel like some folks would be applauding.

[Forrest Collins @ForrestViews]

Budget challenges are forcing school districts to find new ways to generate revenue. Plenty of people are making money covering high school football. Districts invest millions in these programs and facilities. It’s reasonable for them to explore ways to capture some of that value and reinvest it back into students and schools.

[Forrest Collins @ForrestViews]

Hard to see how this is best for kids.

[Texas Observer @TexasObserver]

#ICYMI: Nearly 2,000 juniors across 16 high schools in Houston ISD were pulled from Algebra II and placed in remedial math. At some schools, about 70% of juniors were similarly demoted into less challenging classes.

It wasn't due to poor grades ... https://t.co/zuyvh0CZwg

[Forrest Collins @ForrestViews]

If TEA was a school district, TEA would’ve taken it over by now.

“the Agency's hiring practices created a management-heavy structure.”

“ the Agency's travel expenditure process did not align with its policy.”

“The Agency monitored State-funded grants, but the level of monitoring was inconsistent across grant programs because it had not established minimum guidelines.”

[Rahm Emanuel @RahmEmanuel]

Last year at this time, Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy terminated 22 mRNA research contracts worth $500 million. Same cost as Trump’s gifted Qatari plane.

Today, Merck and Moderna announced that an experimental breakthrough vaccine treatment — developed through mRNA research previously funded by NIH — has shown signs of preventing cancer from returning or spreading in a study of high-risk melanoma patients.

Thank god the NIH funded this before Kennedy and the Trump administration showed up to degrade America’s health and leadership.

Which Republican senator has the courage to tell Secretary Kennedy that his decisions are making Americans sicker and letting China take the lead on research, science, and technology?

I’ll save you the time and give you the answer: none of them.

https://t.co/jTgRr89d4J

[Forrest Collins @ForrestViews]

@scottbraddock

[Forrest Collins @ForrestViews]

@CurrentRevolt @GregAbbott_TX Meanwhile, Fort Worth ISD had a 569% increase in uncertified teachers since TEA took over this summer.

[Forrest Collins @ForrestViews]

@mavsmoneyball They did this last year. I got a half season plan and ended up with preseason games. Just one of many reason I did not renew.

[Forrest Collins @ForrestViews]

@Sarah4Texas Most of it would still happen because it’s required infrastructure, and that’s why it’s ridiculous the state gives them tax breaks.

[Forrest Collins @ForrestViews]

@FrankLuntz The problem in Texas is that the state legislature capped property tax growth so local entities like public schools don’t see any additional revenue for their maintenance and operations.

https://t.co/fSA0dR4eP8

[Forrest Collins @ForrestViews]

Well of course he cares about public schools when he’s up for election.

[San Antonio Express-News @ExpressNews]

With a long-sought private school program now in place, the Texas governor says his focus is on public schools. https://t.co/E1rgmdWZ1c

[Forrest Collins @ForrestViews]

@atrupar Awwww, gotta love miliionaires who think the rest of us peasants would be living good if we just cut out that one trip to Starbucks.

[Forrest Collins @ForrestViews]

@MarkHalperin Well she’s a socialist so the show would be her going around to all the other cooking shows, taking the food they cooked, and then bringing it back to her show to eat it.

[Forrest Collins @ForrestViews]

@GoldmanCraig @MattKrauseTX @JaredLPatterson I support this.

[Forrest Collins @ForrestViews]

I can’t help but feel that most of the problems in the world would be solved if people just minded their own business and stopped trying to tell other people what they should and should not be doing.

It’s a little idea our country was founded on.

It’s called LIBERTY.