Tragic GA

Teachers Rally to Advocate for Georgia Insurance Choices. All state employees affected by SHBP changes are welcome to join in our cause!

[Tragic GA @TragicGA]

Expanded Article: Georgia teachers carrying big load on health care, study finds http://t.co/Qm2Xqbp2us

[Jason Esteves @jasonesteves]

It’s a sham.

Underinvestment so that you can claim a surplus makes for good political headlines but has negative impact on hardworking Georgia families and small businesses that aren’t being well served by state. Mental and physical health, education, housing, etc. all suffer.

[Tragic GA @TragicGA]

No lies detected…

[Susan Barber @susangbarber]

My non-teacher friends: I’m so jealous of your summer off.
Me: yesterday I had a colonoscopy, today I went to the orthopedist, tomorrow I’m having my teeth cleaned.

[Tragic GA @TragicGA]

Unbelievable

[Staci Fox (she/her/y'all) @StaciFox]

#SB233 vouchers only create more inequity in Georgia and our @GaBudget put that into a map!
#gapol

[GBPI @GaBudget]

🚨 STOP Senate Bill 233 🚨
The House Education Policy Subcommittee will hear #SB233 on Monday at 8am, which would privatize education through vouchers. Call House Education members & ask them to vote NO on SB 233. Our Director of Education gives more info #SaveOurSchools #GApol

[PAGE @PAGE_EdNews]

Senate Ed Committee Passes Voucher Bill; Literacy Bills Advance in House and Senate. Details in the Day 25 report: https://t.co/ZoeOHA5qmB

[Fund Georgia's Future @FundGAFuture]

The time is now: Voucher vote on Monday. Here's what you can do - https://t.co/Tk2kcBKvIF

[Fund Georgia's Future @FundGAFuture]

Voucher Call to Action!
Lawmakers dropped a new voucher bill yesterday (Senate Bill 233) and it’s poised to drain millions away from public schools to discriminatory private education. Call/email/text your senator and ask them to vote NO on SB 233. https://t.co/7iypmZfmql

[Josh Cowen @joshcowenMI]

There’s lots of talk of using evidence to inform #education policy

But since 2010 you’d be hard-pressed to find evidence as consistent or as one-sided as two basic results:

Funding #publicschools has a big, reliable return on investment, and #schoolvouchers devastate academics

[Staci Fox (she/her/y'all) @StaciFox]

Something is amiss in the budget and @StephenJOwens_ on #Insights23 pulling back the curtain!
Districts are scrambling as they heard about this the same time the rest of us did - when the budget dropped last Friday
@GaBudget #gapol

[Tragic GA @TragicGA]

We’ve been talking about this since 2014. We’ve told you it’s coming, and why, and yet people still seem shocked.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Districts or schools that remove students from physical education, music, Arts, or other classes to remediate them in other areas, have no idea of the immediate and long term damage they are doing to these students. These may be classes that help them love school.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Teacher retention: if you want to keep the best teachers, treat them like they are the best. Few teachers leave an environment where they feel valued, supported, appreciated, and treated like professionals. This is more important now than ever!

[Pastors for Children @pastors4kids]

The local neighborhood public school is a treasured American democratic institution. It creates an informed citizenry & trained workforce. It honors & unifies the diversity of our great nation. It provides for our poorest children.

You own it.

Please protect it.

#txed #txlege

[Pastors for Children @pastors4kids]

There is one reason—and only one reason—for the rich, powerful push for the privatization of public education.

Money. Money. Money. Money. Money. Money. Money. Money. Money. Money. Money. Money. Money. Money. Money. Money. Money. Money. Money. Money. Money. Money.

#txed #txlege

[Scott Holcomb @RepScottHolcomb]

Generally speaking, except for some executive positions & political appointments, the vast majority of state workers are significantly underpaid.

Among other things, this leads to high turnover & challenges with recruitment.

We get what we pay for, and we aren’t paying enough.

[Tragic GA @TragicGA]

You could certainly change “healthcare” to education���

[Tragic GA @TragicGA]

We don’t wade into national politics much, but come on….

[Jane of the North @JaneotN]

A Teacher can write off $300 in school supplies in one year.

In one year, Donald Trump wrote off $70,000 for his hair.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

We've always had SEL in schools. It was called recess, play, & classes like Music, Art, Physical Education.But they have been taken away or reduced to spend more time on testing, & then we wonder why students lack social/ emotional skills & misbehavior that come with lack of it.