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📊 Just released: Survey findings from over 2,500 Texas educators reveal deep concerns over vouchers, funding, and equity in public schools. Now more than ever, public education is on the ballot! 🗳️
Learn about your local candidates and VOTE! 🗳️ Let’s prioritize our schools! 💪
#PublicEducation #TXEd #Vouchers #VoteForEducation #TXLege #GetOutTheVote
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@RYHTexas @FRIENDStxps @tasbnews @tasanet @TexasTribune @kwtx
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Blessed to be the voice of @LorenaISD staff and Ss & a unifed voice for the 5.5M Ss and 500k staff that depend on a strong and healthy public education system. ❤️
#ItsAGreatDayToBeALeopard #LTASB #TAMS #txlege
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This was such a wonderful event. I’m excited about all the great things Tessera Technology Group and @VerkadaHQ will do together in 2025!
#ItStartsWithOne🟥
Tessera leadership attended @VerkadaHQ SKO and came back with lots of exciting announcements and shared experiences with our local Verkada team.
#ItStartsWithOne🟥 #PhysicalSecurity
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🚨 #txlege budgets have been released.
$1 Billion for 60,000 students to attend private schools, $3.85 Billion for the 5.6 million students in public schools.
$16,667 per private school student.
$686 per public school student.
Our #txed students, teachers, and families deserve better.
texastribune.org/2025/01/22/…
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Let’s be clear on what we are talking about. Texas already has school choice - hometown district, neighboring districts with open enrollment, charter schools, homeschools, and private schools.
So what are we really talking about? Subsidizing private education under the guise of helping those with the most needs? The costs for private schools goes beyond just tuition - what about the other costs to parents, like transportation, meals, supplies, extracurricular, etc. What will the state do when private schools raise tuition to address rising costs?
It sounds more and more like a tagline than a plan.
Seems more fiscally responsible to help our public schools as protected under our constitution.
No better way to spend Saturday night than celebrating #teachers and #educators at @RoyseCityISD ❤️
#txed #k12 @RCISDFoundation
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“School districts have to turn the lights on, we have to pay the water bill, we have to fuel buses. All those real-life things are happening in our schools as well.”, Prosper ISD Superintendent Holly Ferguson said.
Read the full article here 👉 go.ryht.org/DFW-Funding
#DFW #FundTexasSchools #FundOurFuture #TxLege #TxEd
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Too much emphasis is placed on the STAAR test results, and our current A-F accountability system fails to provide parents with a holistic look at how schools and teachers support the education of Texas students and the future of Texas as a world-class economy.
It’s time for Texas to lead on assessment and accountability and rethink the role of STAAR results, from graduation requirements to being the only measurement tool to assess our elementary and middle schools. Our students are more than one test on one day. It’s time to #MeasureWhatMattersTX.
Read our 2025 legislative policy recommendations at raiseyourhandtexas.org/polic….
#TxEd #TxLege #TexasTeachers #89thLege
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Help us celebrate at the Groundbreaking Ceremony for our 2nd high school! WFHS will open in August of 2027!
Russ Johnson retweeted
📊 Just released: Survey findings from over 2,500 Texas educators reveal deep concerns over vouchers, funding, and equity in public schools. Now more than ever, public education is on the ballot! 🗳️
Learn about your local candidates and VOTE! 🗳️ Let’s prioritize our schools! 💪
#PublicEducation #TXEd #Vouchers #VoteForEducation #TXLege #GetOutTheVote
🔗 bit.ly/EDpiper
@RYHTexas @FRIENDStxps @tasbnews @tasanet @TexasTribune @kwtx
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As part of my #LTASB25 research, I was blessed to spend time with my #supt discussing superintendent self-care and wellbeing. 
It’s common for servant leaders to selflessly prioritize taking care of others over themselves. As trustees, we mustn’t forget our duty to ensure our supts are taking time to refuel.
It’s a great day to be a leopard! ❤️
#txed #LTASB
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But the testimony of the Lorena ISD Supe was fire. Thank goodness this hearing after the Olympics so he could get back in time to testify. Should have worn his medal but this broadside another podium win.
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Texas teachers make almost $10k below the national average.
The @GovAbbott “path” to better teacher pay is makes them jump thru more hoops to prove their worth.
TX Teachers do enough. It’s past time to pay teachers their worth in Texas. #txlege
Texas teachers are among the best in the nation.
In 2019, I signed a law establishing the Teacher Incentive Allotment to put teachers on a path to earn a six-figure salary.
Texas thanks our hardworking teachers for educating our future leaders. kcbd.com/2024/06/13/lubbock-…
Invited testimony to discuss #Texas #vouchers or #ESAs. These seem like wonderful folks to hear from. Wonder if we should also invite those who have a very clear handle on Texas #publicschools, like #superintendents, #trustees, #principals, #counselors? 🤔💡
#txed #k12 #edtech
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Russ Johnson retweeted
TX MAGA Republicans are amassing & hoarding our taxpayer $ in anticipation of a massive payout to the wealthy & well-connected few thru a “taxpayer-funded voucher.”
Meanwhile, schools are closing & property taxes are rising across Texas because MAGA won’t do its job. #txlege
