Month: <span>November 2011</span>

Rick Perry’s “wrecking ball”

Today, Gov. Rick Perry was quoted as saying in Iowa that he was running for president so he could “take a wrecking ball to Washington.” Given the fact that Perry’s many “oops” moments have made his campaign little more than the butt of latenight TV jokes, many people doubt his ability to do much of […]

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Winning for schools, one election at a time

Gov. Rick Perry was only the latest antipublic schools politician to suffer a serious “oops moment” this week. (Although he initially couldn’t remember the Department of Energy during the debate of Republican presidential candidates, he didn’t have any trouble remembering that the Department of Education is on his kill list. He blurted that one right […]

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Remember to vote on Tuesday

Tomorrow (Tuesday) is Election Day, and TSTA urges everyone to take the time to vote, if you haven’t already voted early. Everybody will have the opportunity to vote on 10 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution. There also are a scattering of local school board elections and one special election for the Texas House in […]

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How many overpaid teachers do you know?

Sadly, the assault on teachers continues. The latest attack, prepared in the guise of a research paper by The Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute, concludes that public schoolteachers are overpaid to the tune, nationwide, of about $120 billion. That probably comes as a surprise to the 40 percent of so of Texas teachers […]

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