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    The biggest one is still there.

    Thank Christ, I've recently joined up with a gaggle of Civil War Confederate Groups on the Facebook. They love old Cubby on there. tee, hee.

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    Tactically it makes sense, if you can wreck the biggest school district in Texas and replace it with a partisan kluge, that partisan kluge can serve as the model for replacing public education in the rest of the state.
    ...God's speed.

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    Tactically it makes sense, if you can wreck the biggest school district in Texas and replace it with a partisan kluge, that partisan kluge can serve as the model for replacing public education in the rest of the state.

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    Republicans have controlled Texas and the TBOE for 30 years. To suddenly say the TBOE approved curriculum is demon-indwelt because it doesn't conform seamlessly to the 2024 GOP platform, is not only radical, but bonkers.

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    Texas gonna make sure it has a large uneducated workforce so we can use immigrants to do our thinking.
    We are going to try and out dumb Mississippi.

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    Texas gonna make sure it has a large uneducated workforce so we can use immigrants to do our thinking.
    We are going to try and out dumb Mississippi.
    Immigrants are better educated than native Texans in the aggregate -- even Central American immigrants believe it or not -- so that's not the worst idea...

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    Immigrants are better educated than native Texans in the aggregate -- even Central American immigrants believe it or not -- so that's not the worst idea...
    ..."Sure, Jan."

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    Looks funny, what's the s company for? Is Mike Miles on the up and up?

    Is Texas in effect subsidizing Colorado charters?

    Spectrum’s investigation revealed Miles spoke at a board meeting in Colorado of needing to redirect money to one struggling charter school. In a video clip of a board meeting, which took place in mid-June 2023, a couple of weeks after Miles became Houston superintendent, Miles told Third Future Schools-Colorado board members: “It’s now becoming untenable. … We have to subsidize it to the tune of maybe $500,000 a year.”

    The outlet’s investigation also included a June 2023 audio recording of the Colorado en y’s then-Chief Financial Officer Renea Ostermiller saying, “We’ve been supplementing that school [referring to the network’s Colorado school which closed due to low enrollment with $5 million in unpaid bonds] with the General Fund,” said Ostermiller.

    In email communications with the Observer, Third Future Schools’ spokesperson, Whitney Nichols, denied that money the Colorado en y received for Texas public schools was being used to offset its Colorado school’s debt. Nichols said Ostermiller “misspoke” and is no longer with the organization.

    Craddock also told the Observer, “No Texas dollars have ever been used to subsidize Colorado schools.” He said he could not explain why the Texas and Colorado en ies were running a deficit.

    In a statement posted to its website following Spectrum’s investigation, Third Future Schools maintained that the en y’s office in Colorado receives the Texas public school dollars and then deposits them into a bank account for the Texas en y. But a bank depository certificate obtained by the Observer shows that Third Future Schools-Texas didn’t open a bank account until March 2021, almost a year after it started receiving Texas tax dollars. The certificate was signed by Mike Miles.
    https://www.texasobserver.org/hisd-h...schools-texas/

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    GOP: Against student debt/interest forgiveness, pro student vouchers/against fully supporting public schools.

    Explains why Yam s loves the poorly educated.

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    The Texas lege and the TEA are intentionally wrecking Harris County schools.

    What do you do when the state lege decides to wreck the schools?

    Honest question, I never thought we might get all of the way there in Texas until now.

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    I guess, broadly, it does make sense. COVID caused us to 86 infection control and npis.

    What's causing us to ditch public schools in Texas?

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    What do you do when the state lege decides to wreck the schools?

    Honest question, I never thought we might get all of the way there in Texas until now.
    You wrecked 'em. But this ain't new. They've been on a steady decline since the '60's when divorce came to bear down off the end of WW2.

    So, you threw money at it and everyone dipped their beak into the dough and drank heartily and still do.

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    I guess, broadly, it does make sense. COVID caused us to 86 infection control and npis.

    What's causing us to ditch public schools in Texas?
    ...Common sense.

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    I guess, broadly, it does make sense. COVID caused us to 86 infection control and npis.

    What's causing us to ditch public schools in Texas?
    Yeah I think same reason that prisons are getting privatized

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    Republicans have controlled Texas and the TBOE for 30 years. To suddenly say the TBOE approved curriculum is demon-indwelt because it doesn't conform seamlessly to the 2024 GOP platform, is not only radical, but bonkers.
    they smell blood in the water, and with the repeal of Roe, suddenly everything seems possible to them. The darkest wish is within their grasp.

    Never mind that rural republicans have no options other then public schools, the urban fascist elites smell grifty money to be made in ty charter schools, so that is what is going to be pushed on us.

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    they smell blood in the water, and with the repeal of Roe, suddenly everything seems possible to them. The darkest wish is within their grasp.

    Never mind that rural republicans have no options other then public schools, the urban fascist elites smell grifty money to be made in ty charter schools, so that is what is going to be pushed on us.
    You ain't turnin' Texas, RG.

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    https://x.com/meganmmenchaca/status/1820452376655843651

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    What do you do when the state lege decides to wreck the schools?

    Honest question, I never thought we might get all of the way there in Texas until now.
    it will lead to a rural revolt against the GOP, and a lot of them know it.

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    https://x.com/meganmmenchaca/status/1820452376655843651


    wow.

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    https://x.com/meganmmenchaca/status/1820452376655843651
    This will be getting a lot of Democrats to the polls this November.

    abortion caps, bathroom bills, this.

    We are not going to have to work too hard to get people out this fall.

    Look to the SOS to do everything it can to keep the "wrong"people with melanin in Houston from voting.

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    https://x.com/meganmmenchaca/status/1820452376655843651
    it will lead to a rural revolt against the GOP, and a lot of them know it.
    Ya's ain't turnin' Texas.

    This will be getting a lot of Democrats to the polls this November.

    abortion caps, bathroom bills, this.

    We are not going to have to work too hard to get people out this fall.

    Look to the SOS to do everything it can to keep the "wrong"people with melanin in Houston from voting.

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    Yeah I think same reason that prisons are getting privatized
    it is all about the grift.

    These ers will destroy the public education system and then wonder why businesses are leaving.

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    it is all about the grift.

    These ers will destroy the public education system and then wonder why businesses are leaving.
    It's already destroyed. You've been on the rims for decades, just draining the money, son.

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    Miles is just the guy we need to wreck Harris County public schools

    https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05...investigation/
    TEA clears Miles of financial shenanigans

    The Texas Education Agency has cleared acting Houston school district Superintendent Mike Miles of wrongdoing after he was accused of improperly diverting millions of dollars in state funds to his Colorado charter school system.

    After reporting from Spectrum News and The Texas Observer prompted calls for an investigation earlier this year, the education agency concluded on Tuesday that neither Miles — who the agency picked to lead the state’s largest school district last year — nor his charter school network, Third Future Schools, “violated any applicable Texas laws,” according to the 29-page investigation report.

    The investigation found, in part, that checks directed from a partnering Texas school district to Third Future Schools’ Colorado address went there because the Colorado location handles accounting services for the network’s Texas branch, which is run independently. But, the checks were eventually deposited in the Texas branch’s bank account.

    "Based on the evidence obtained and analyzed during the investigation, there is no merit to the allegations contained in the media reports that state funds were being inappropriately diverted from public school students in Texas," the report notes.


    The agency is closing the investigation, and “no further action will be taken” at this time, the report says.
    https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10...rongdoing-tea/

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