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Laura Yeager Reveals What’s in Store for Public Education after Texas' 88th Legislative Session
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Curious what happened in the Texas 88th legislative session regarding public education? Today’s episode is for you! We say welcome back to Laura Subrin Yeager. She is an experienced leader in coalition building, grassroots advocacy management and public education policy.
Last year she explain the difference between public school accountability and assessment. In this episode, we get the low down on what lawmakers were cussin and discussin when it came to public education. Sadly, there were very few good bills that passed. Many representatives did put forward bills to improve school funding and raise teacher pay but all of the good bills were weighed down by vouchers.
What’s a voucher? A voucher allows parents to take public money out of public education and use it for a private school.
Some bad public education laws are coming our way. Did you know that Texas public schools can now allow chaplains to replace counselors in schools? What’s alarming is that they do not have to have the same credentials as professional counselors and they bring their religious ideology to public schools. It’s a further blurring of the line between church and state and parents should be concerned.
Governor Abbott continues to beat the drum for vouchers (or ESA) and it’s very likely he will call a special session for this priority.
This is a perfect time to plug our brand new investigative podcast that will look at vouchers. We would love your help getting this show off the ground and you can do that here:
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