@sciteach79

Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, Houston. Elementary Science Curriculum Specialist and Coach

 Houston, TX
Joined June 2012
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“School choice” is an orchestrated demolition of public schools & the social contract. The euphemism masks the thieving of tax dollars to subsidize private schools, transforming an aspiration of fringe Christian, anti-gov’t militants into state doctrine.” networkforpubliceducation.or…
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Texas has a record $33 billion surplus — but Abbott's school funding plan fails to spend a dime on our public schools: $0 for students $0 for teachers $0 for schools A bipartisan majority in the Texas House stands ready to fully fund our neighborhood schools. #txlege
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Everyone—especially #txlege House members—need to know the voucher push is for one reason & one reason only: @GregAbbott_TX’s political ambition. Not about kids. Nor about parents. Not about Texas. Him. Your State Rep can vote with Abbott or with you. But not both. #txed
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THERE WILL BE NO DEAL ON VOUCHERS $40 BILLION in bank! Given by Texans for Texans: roads, safety, health, water & PUBLIC SCHOOLS! It is OUR money--not #txlege's or @GregAbbott_TX's money. Release it only if private schools get it too??? NUTS! Vouchers: an immoral scam. #txed
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Today, our executive director @mishshel, provided written testimony in opposition to SB1 before the Texas Senate Committee on Education. Raise Your Hand Texas believes state dollars should remain in our public schools. The Texas Legislature should not invest its time and resources in programs that fail to support all of our 5.5 million public school students. This includes all forms of voucher programs, including any form of Educational Savings Accounts. #txed #txlege #vOUCHersHurt
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Life is #BetterOutside, young Padawan. Happy May the Fourth to all! #MayThe4thBeWithYou
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Parental control in #txed? Absolutely! You have that now through YOUR elected school boards. But that’s not what the voucher people want. They want political control. Taken from you! Don’t give it to them. Call your #txlege Senator & Representative. No vouchers in Texas!
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“Despite an unprecedented national anti-public-school campaign, orchestrated and funded by powerful political forces, polls show parents are satisfied with the education their child receives in public schools. Vouchers are not the answer.” bit.ly/3IMtIE7 #txed #txlege

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Teachers, @DanPatrick keynoted this organization’s conference this week. @GregAbbott_TX was a featured speaker. Neither of them repudiated or confronted any of this garbage. This is the bunch they ride with. @TexasAFT @OfficialATPE @txstateteachers @texascta @UEATexas
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We had another wonderful Saturday with these 5th grade teachers at @CFISDScience doing STAAR Blitz! 💚
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Corporate greed is the producer of Egg-Land's Best, Farmhouse Eggs & Land O'Lake Eggs, increasing its profits by 65% last quarter to a record-breaking $198 million while doubling the price of eggs & reporting no positive cases of avian flu. Yes. We need a windfall profits tax.
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The voucher crowd always cites dysfunctional and dangerous inner city poor schools as justification for privatization of #txed. But, they stubbornly refuse any legislative policy in #txlege to fund and fix those poor schools. #Hypocrisy! @DrDeMatt @tasbnews @tasanet @TexasAFT
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Lesley Jackson retweeted
Mrs. Redmon@RedmonMrs16 Dec 2022
Science at recess!!!!Check out those shadows 🌞! @popepanthers @CFISDScience
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Robert Reich
@RBReich18 Nov 2022
PepsiCo raised prices by 17%. Their profits went up by more than 20%. Chipotle raised prices by nearly 15%. Their profits went up by nearly 26%. See the pattern? Corporations are raising prices under the cover of inflation, after their inflation-related costs have been covered.
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20 years ago, Enron got the State Legislature to redesign our grid. What we got was a rickety, deregulated grid that serves corporations at the expense of Texas families. I will not take a dime from corporate PACs because I want to serve the people of Texas—not corporations.
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Listen, Texas teachers. Dedicated, hardworking, underpaid Texas teachers: @GregAbbott_TX thinks you teach our kids to hate our country. Of course it’s a lie. He knows it. He tells it to rile up his #txed-hating base. You can stop this false witness. How? Don’t vote for him.
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Diego Bernal@DiegoBernalTX23 Oct 2022
Actually you didn’t. You tried to derail it, all the way down to the moments before the signing ceremony. I know, not just because I was there, but I spent nearly two years on that bill; I was responsible for big pieces of it. You were nowhere to be found.
Dan Patrick
@DanPatrick22 Oct 2022
I passed the largest school finance reform in 40 years and passed an $11 billion education package, the largest increase in public school funding in Texas history, including the biggest pay raise for teachers in years.
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Good morning. If Republicans win control of Congress they are going to ❗️ban abortion ❗️cut Social Security ❗️give Ukraine to Putin ❗️install Trump as President even if he loses in 2024 Don’t sit this one out.
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Dalai Lama
@DalaiLama14 Oct 2022
We are all here on this planet, as tourists, as it were. None of us can live here forever. The longest we might live is a hundred years. So while we are here we should try to have a good heart and to make something positive and useful of our lives.
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