Jeff Balderson

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain

[Jeff Balderson @jjbalder]

Year 25 is a wrap…my inaugural yr at @Sewell_Seahawks was a good one…22 yrs in 5th grade in @gisdnews

There’s a ton of talk about what’s bad w/ public ed…can things be improved?…sure, like I do in my classroom every year…but, let’s sit a spell & I’ll tell u all that’s good

[Jeff Balderson @jjbalder]

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[Jeff Balderson @jjbalder]

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[Big Bad Bear @CoxHerb]

This. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

[Big Bad Bear @CoxHerb]

Unbelievable what Abbott is doing to destroy public education in Texas.
He simply must be stopped.
Are y’all paying attention yet???
Parents?
Teachers?
Coaches?
Administrators?
We have to work together in order to put an end to all of this.
Get out & VOTE in the primaries!

[Texas School Alliance @Alliance_Texas]

🚨🚨The frequency of inaccurately scored STAAR tests is alarming. (70% of 3rd-grade tests!) TEA needs to improve its assessment system to give parents and the public more accurate, reliable information. #txlege #txed https://t.co/fBUQJfm9wb

[Texas Tribune @TexasTribune]

"A little bit of hope and memory and love”

As flood recovery efforts continue in Central Texas, many volunteers have found personal items like stuffed animals, photographs, pins, and other items that they are determined to reunite with their owners. https://t.co/ylLbK6miAl

[WFAA @wfaa]

A North Texas family is reflecting on fond memories at Central Texas camps, including their time with late camp director Jane Ragsdale. https://t.co/dVzGONtkkD

[Scott Braddock @scottbraddock]

The Texas House voted 142 to 5 for a version of school finance their superintendents strongly supported. We'll soon see House members' reactions to Speaker @Burrows4TX praising @DanPatrick's version, gutting the basic allotment, micromanaging ISDs, and underfunding suburban ISDs

[HOUmanitarian ™ @HOUmanitarian]

Texas private schools get 30 dolls
Texas public schools won’t even get 2.

Texas schools budgets everywhere are underwater due to inflation and now the State Senate proposes just $55 more to basic allotment. #TxEd got played.
#TxLege

[MothersAgainstGregAbbottPAC/MothersforDemocracyPAC @MomsAGAbbott]

Remember when Greg Abbott said he was going to make Texas Public Education the top in the country? Well this isn’t how you do it! 👇🏼 both Abbott and Patrick are liars and frauds! Pass public education funding now! Quit starving our schools! #txlege

[Josh Cowen @joshcowenMI]

Don’t take my word for it—ask Betsy DeVos. Congress is about to roll out a tax shelter scheme to fund school vouchers for wealthy kids already in private school.

It would force vouchers into every state.

And they’re going to cut Medicaid for families everywhere to pay for it.

[TheBlueTexan @TheBlueTexan]

And guess whose fault that’s been for over 10 years?

[Rep. John Bucy III @BucyForTexas]

BREAKING: Gov. Abbott just signed his voucher scam into law.

He said vouchers won’t hurt public schools funding –– but the $7B school funding bill we passed that same day has stalled in the Senate.

He lied. And Texas kids will pay the price.

[Tracy Fisher @antraasa]

It was NEVER about parent choice. It was BILLIONAIRE choice.
#txed #txlege 👀

[Our Schools Our Democracy @OSODTexas]

State leaders are failing our students with a clear & terrifying plan:
1️⃣ starve public schools of funding
2️⃣ shovel $$ at charters & vouchers
3️⃣ release ratings based on reviled standardized tests to justify undemocratic state takeovers @HoustonCVPE

#txlege #txed

[Pastors for Children @pastors4txkids]

With over 94,000 charter students at D or F-rated charter schools, the state paid almost $1 billion of taxpayer dollars to provide failing choice options in School Year 2022-23 - about a quarter of all expenditures that were paid to charter schools statewide.

#txlege

[Gina Hinojosa @GinaHinojosaTX]

To recap:

The TX Education Agency waited til all results were in from schools for 2023, & THEN RETROACTIVELY set the bar much higher to pass A-F accountability.

120 school districts sued Agency for foul play. The @GregAbbott_TX appointed 15th Court ordered A-F grades released.

[Mary Spradlin 🌻 @minimar7]

"Abbott threatened to veto bills proposed by any Republican who voted in favor of Talarico’s amendment and told the lawmakers he would make their primary elections a “bloodbath.” This is not representative democracy. "The People's House" has failed the people of Texas.

[Jennifer Berkshire @BisforBerkshire]

Folks popping champagne corks over Texas' enormous new voucher program are ignorning the new political reality they helped spawn: a sprawling new protest movement within the TX GOP

[Scott Braddock @scottbraddock]

Gov @GregAbbott_TX can't stop lying about fellow Republicans even after he got his way last night. Being a sore winner is a terrible look. Republicans are going on record now about Abbott's intimidation campaign ahead of last night's vote on school vouchers #txlege