David Hooper
@dhooper.bsky.social
Fly fishing🎣 Outdoor things🐨 Environmental advocate ☮
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This story is 🤯! This Charter School Superintendent in Texas Makes $870,000. His District Serves 1,000 Students. By @emsimani.bsky.social and Lexi Churchill w/ @texastribune.org
This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.
On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the c...
www.propublica.org
March 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
This story is 🤯! This Charter School Superintendent in Texas Makes $870,000. His District Serves 1,000 Students. By @emsimani.bsky.social and Lexi Churchill w/ @texastribune.org
Reposted by David Hooper
NEW: Inside the Plan to Funnel Taxpayer Dollars to Religious Schools @alecmac.bsky.social w/ @newyorker.com
The Movement to Redirect Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to Private Religious Schools
Private letters reveal the strategy behind the decadeslong quest — successful in 12 states and counting — by politicians, church officials and activists to make taxpayer-funded school vouchers availab...
www.propublica.org
January 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
NEW: Inside the Plan to Funnel Taxpayer Dollars to Religious Schools @alecmac.bsky.social w/ @newyorker.com
We need to do better.
New research shows a quarter of freshwater animals are threatened with extinction
New research shows about a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction.
apnews.com
January 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
We need to do better.
I can imagine how proud she would be of you today. That's a very powerful song, @joenewberry.bsky.social
Today marks 43 years since my mother walked into that cloudless sky. She was my first companion and my truest friend. Keep resting in peace, Virginia Dare Hard Newberry. Memory lingers, though the body turns to clay. That's so we will recognize you on the Resurrection Day.
Resurrection Day - Joe Newberry - 1/17/2015
YouTube video by Radio Heartland
youtu.be
December 4, 2024 at 1:19 PM
I can imagine how proud she would be of you today. That's a very powerful song, @joenewberry.bsky.social
My little friend is back #FoxOfTheDay
December 2, 2024 at 1:12 PM
My little friend is back #FoxOfTheDay
Spent the morning with an awesome group of volunteers from Operation Turkey Fort Worth
to prepare, package, and deliver 2000 meals to individuals in need of a kind word and a hot meal.
to prepare, package, and deliver 2000 meals to individuals in need of a kind word and a hot meal.
November 28, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Spent the morning with an awesome group of volunteers from Operation Turkey Fort Worth
to prepare, package, and deliver 2000 meals to individuals in need of a kind word and a hot meal.
to prepare, package, and deliver 2000 meals to individuals in need of a kind word and a hot meal.
This little guy followed me for about a 1/4 mile today while on a hike.
November 23, 2024 at 2:31 AM
This little guy followed me for about a 1/4 mile today while on a hike.
One of my favorite fall activities is to take a long walk in the woods just before sunset and walk home in the dark after the wildlife becomes active.
November 22, 2024 at 12:40 AM
One of my favorite fall activities is to take a long walk in the woods just before sunset and walk home in the dark after the wildlife becomes active.