Month: <span>October 2010</span>

Pitching a curveball

Much as I may want to, folks, I can’t blame Gov. Perry for the Texas Rangers’ 02 stumble in the early games of the World Series. But if you want to start a rumor about a Perry hex invading the visitors’ clubhouse in San Francisco, please feel free. Some of you series watchers may have […]

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Trying to fasttrack vouchers

TSTA hasn’t made an endorsement in the race for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, and the commission doesn’t have much to do with education – or railroads either, for that matter. But in case anyone is wondering which of the two, largely unknown major party candidates to choose, I recommend Democratic nominee Jeff […]

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Your job may be on the line Nov. 2

If you haven’t voted yet, please read Bob Garrett’s Dallas Morning News article linked at the bottom of this post. It makes clearer than anything else I have read so far that thousands of school teachers and other public employees WILL lose their jobs if Gov. Rick Perry and the current legislative leadership are still […]

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TRS has not been “cleared”

Judging from a call to the office this morning, there is a misperception among some educators and retirees that Gov. Rick Perry and his appointees on the Teacher Retirement System board have been “cleared” of allegations that the pension fund has been abused to benefit some of the governor’s major political donors. It is true […]

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