Dr. Debbie Cano

This bugs me. @gcollinstx literally worked for her billionaire daddy at a reading gamification company @Istationed in Dallas where it was piloted in all the major Texas districts like @FortWorthISD, @dallasschools, @TerrellISD, @HoustonISD and @RichardsonISD in 2003 and now all of those districts have DECLINED in reading. “Collins is the head of corporate strategy at Istation, which she describes as an education technology firm that helps students and teachers reach their academic goals.” But it gets better…Colins is now working for the Koch-funded @AFPhq and pushing vouchers because…WAIT FOR IT…she says kids can’t read. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ dallasnews.com/news/politics/…

Why the incessant attacks on public education? To end multi-cultural democracy & replace it with a theocracy. Who is funding it? Rightwing extremist billionaires Charles Koch @KochIndustries, @BetsyDeVos, @timdunntexas, Wilks, et al Who can stop it? YOU & YOUR VOTE! #txlege

It’s curious to me that our Texas Gov is claiming that vouchers are the solution (after 25+ years of GOP control of our public education system - defunding, over testing, decimating, etc.). Vouchers aren’t conservative - no limits OR accountability. #txed 🤷‍♀️

5% for the 'Big Guy' @DeAngelisCorey In the final bill proposed to create the taxpayer-funded private school voucher scheme, the proposed legislation allows the Texas comptroller to hire at least one (1) Certified Educational Assistance Organizations (CEAO) that will hand out the voucher cash to the private schools based upon voucher-participating students managed by said CEAO. The CEAO, the 'Big Guy', gets 5% of the gross amount. The voucher bill was programmed to cost around $461 million a year in 2025. This mean's Corey's bosses, the 'Big Guy', will get a $23 million windfall the first year. In 2026, vouchers will cost $1.9 billion and Corey's bosses will get $95 million of our tax dollars. By 2028, the cost of the vouchers increase to $2.3 billion, netting Corey's bosses $115 million a year. Corey's take by year: 2025: $ 23 million 2026: $ 95 million 2027: $ 95 million (at least!) 2028: $115 million -------------------- Total GRIFT by @DeAngelisCorey and his bosses in 4 years? $328 million -- about 1/3 a billion bucks! That's a WINDFALL! And they are getting paid that to GIVE OUT YOUR TAX DOLLARS to rich families living in Cinco Ranch so they can send their kids to Strake Jesuit-- all on your dime! No wonder AFC Victory Fund spent $millions and $millions lying to rural Republican voters this year (about a the border crisis, not vouchers)! The text in the image is from the #TXLege Budget Board fiscal notes about HB1 (4th 88th session) here: #navpanes=0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/884/fi…

Easily at least 400 Texans here in Cleburne to support Rep @BurnsForTexas. Gov @GregAbbott_TX, who's against Burns, had roughly 100 or so at his rally here in town today #txlege