HS Spanish teacher/soccer coach, son of immigrants, husband, father, activist, racial justice co-conspirator, 2020 NASW-FtW Public Citizen of the Year, Texan
Charles, why do you care about her religious views? I couldn’t tell you if the previous principal was Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu or atheist. What matters is how they lead the staff and students. And by all accounts, she’s excellent at doing just that.
🚨BOMBSHELL🚨Fort Worth ISD announced Shayma Alzubi as the new principal of Western Hills High School. Alzubi has posted pro-Palestinian content and reposted content supportive of Sharia Law. Is Fort Worth ISD endorsing this?
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If this is about Messi: Tell me you didn’t watch the CONMEBOL qualifiers without telling me you didn’t watch the CONMEBOL qualifiers. #ToughestQualificationPath#ItsNotEvenClose
Gonna be some rather sad games in this World Cup where those fading legends who cannot accept they are fading, but remain surrounded by a pretty tragic cult of celebrity, discover they are no longer at the level in a boiling hot World Cup
@realmitchlittle looking astounded at an actual fact. Yes, undocumented immigrants are a plus on the economy.
“Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022,” reports the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
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1 in 3 kids reading on grade level. A majority speaking only Spanish.
This is a Texas public school district in 2026.
@realmitchlittle at Texas Policy Summit 👇
Congratulations, Coach Medrano!
And know that over here, 38 miles away at your former home, you and your team are the talk of the coaching staff - we’re all proud of you!
#ItsNotADream
Vamos Toros!
BRIDGEPORT IS STATE CHAMP!
Bulls 5, Royal 2 to claim the 4A D2 title - a first in program history!
FINAL/OT
What a game and season for the Bulls! Congrats to HC Brandon Medrano
#txhssoccer#uilstate@tascosoccer@MaxPreps@uiltexas
This is either laughably naive or, more likely, sinisterly misleading.
The number of instructional days lost to STAAR testing (benchmarks, makeups) has tripled thanks to this bill.
There are plenty of sound, data-abundant ways to measure performance.
3x STAAR ain’t one of them.
"What gets measured gets fixed" is a phrase I'm well known for in the Texas Senate, and it's at the heart of education reforms passed in HB 8 that measure our future students' success.
House Pub Ed Chair @BradBuckleyDVM and I passed his HB 8 to prepare students for real-world achievement with a system that measures student growth.
HB 8 replaces the STAAR with 3 shorter tests: beginning, middle, and end of the year. BOY and MOY scores are back in 48 hours, so teachers can give students immediate feedback! A-F accountability ratings were restored, and "lawfare" trying to block accountability was STOPPED as Texas must have a public accountability system year to year!
The reforms give valuable time back to teachers and students in Texas classrooms. Fall 2027 can’t come fast enough for me as HB 8 is a win, win, win for all in Texas Public Education! 🤘 #txed #txlege
Yesterday, in a moment of inspiration, I started celebrating students’ correct responses by performing a unique celebration based on different FC Barcelona players’ goal celebrations - Lamine Yamal’s crown, Pedri’s goggles, Dani Olmo’s wrist…
Melania and I are not the same.
My favorite teacher taught social studies, but he also showed us Simpsons reruns, told us stories of when he was in a band in college, and was a civil war reenactor. Get lost with this nonsense.
the suspicion that the speech might disrupt the learning environment.
So if kids aren’t marching in classrooms/halls, they can protest.
2) Many community centers serve as polling places & are near schools. (See: Southwest Comm Ctr and Southwest HS).
Hope that helps, fascist. 2/2
I can help answer.
1) In Tinker v Des Moines (a 7-2 decision) SCOTUS ruled neither students nor teachers “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” The Court took the position that school officials could not prohibit only on 1/2
🚨EULESS, TEXAS🚨Euless Texas Voting Center is being harrassed by a LARGE Anti-Ice Group. They are waving Mexican flags and are from a nearby High School. Why are schools allowing this?? And why are they right next to a polling site???!
INVESTIGATE!
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.@BrettFavre With all due respect to one of the greatest QBs ever — I didn’t grow up knowing where the Packers played, what Lambeau Field was, or why people proudly wear cheese on their heads 🧀😄.
I watched. I learned. And now I get it.
That’s how @NFL football works. And honestly, that’s how the Super Bowl halftime show works too. It’s not about only watching what you already know — it’s about discovering what millions of your fellow Americans already love.
Bad Bunny isn’t “foreign” to the Super Bowl — he is America too 🇺🇸🇵🇷🎶. Different sounds, same country, same game.
The Super Bowl is big enough for frozen fields, cheese hats, country music… and Spanish lyrics.
That’s not losing tradition. That’s America showing how big the tent really is. 🏈❤️
And you should try Tembleque, Alcapurrias and Mofongo! Don’t be sad, be happy!
Amazing word salad and conflation of the state takeover and your school privatization efforts, governor. Also amazing you don’t understand Supreme Court precedent and First Amendment law.
But don’t worry. November is coming.
THIS is a school district that Texas is taking over because the FWISD has failed students for 5 years in a row.
Parents are fleeing FWISD & choosing school choice because they want their kids educated not indoctrinated.
The State will course correct FWISD.
@TheAmandaGorman@wendy_mcroberts Ms. Gorman, please keep using your amazing talents to find the words for us in this moment. You give voice to things we don’t know how to name. Thank you.
Just last month Abbott said he expects meaningful disciplinary action to take place against any stoppage of Turning Point USA high school chapters in Texas, but “schools are not a place for politics…”