Texas House School Voucher Hearing—Representative Bryant: If we wanted to get to 25th even in per pupil spending that would require $30 billion. The entire surplus of the state of Texas in 2023 was because of underfunding public schools in comparison to the rest of the country. #txlege

Texas House Voucher Hearing— @jamestalarico.bsky.social: If the point of this bill is to give low-income families the choice to attend private school, then why don’t we put an income cap on the bill so our tax dollars are not going to millionaires/billionaires to send their kids to private schools?

Texas has been underfunding public schools for years and held any new funding hostage last year for vouchers. If Abbott really cared about teacher pay raises and being number one in education, he sure has a funny way of showing it for the past 10 years he’s been the governor. #StateoftheState

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

Do republicans have a line of when they will step in to stop this coup or are they just going to watch it all burn down around them?

On Tuesday, @txfreedomread.bsky.social along with 33 partners & allies- who represent Texas parents, students, authors, librarians, educators, grandparents & concerned citizens- sent a joint letter to our elected leaders.

The best thing about finally cutting cable? My father-in-law couldn’t figure out how to work all the streaming services and couldn’t watch Fox News while here for the holidays.

📌“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”

― Lyndon B. Johnson

*(One of the most prescient things ever said by anybody.)

Libraries matter now more than ever. They stand for the powerful idea that knowledge is free and belongs to everyone. In a time when books and free thought are under threat, we must defend and support our libraries and librarians—they are guardians of access, learning, and freedom.

This was absolutely the right thing to do.

A failed president who incited a coup attempt and then was found liable of sexual assault and then was convicted of felonies won the popular vote and electoral college. I still haven’t seen a satisfactory explanation. Probably never will.

Every single school should have a library & a librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER!
#literacy #libraries #librarians

Aw how embarrassing for Paxton. 🤭

Most of our problems could be solved by properly funding public education.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett: "There has been no oppression for the white man in this country ... it is white men on this side of the aisle telling us, people of color on this side of the aisle, that y'all are the ones being oppressed."

Maybe someday, women in America will have as many rights as guns do.