A lobbying we’ll a-go!
Tomorrow I join many other members of the Houston Federation of Teachers to lobby at the state capitol in Austin.
Our goal? Pretty simple: spend some of that $9 billion reserve fund, conservative legislature, instead of risking cutting every fifth teaching position in the state, slashing extracurricular events, decimating support services, sending class sizes skyrocketing and generally exploiting and causing harm to young Texans, especially the at-risk ones who can least afford it.
My guess on our impact: Zero. Let’s just say I believe fiscal and social conservatives are set in their ways. It’s not that they don’t care about inner-city schools, it’s just that they don’t understand the experience there and aren’t likely to stretch their worldview to try to understand it.
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