Give The Educrats What They Want
The Texas Supreme Court has intervened in the struggle to regain control of Texas Public Schools. Texas children can’t afford another bad court decision. Let’s capitulate. Let’s give Texas Educrats what they want.
The Texas Federation of Teachers has postulated a farcical proposal they’re calling the 100% Solution. Within this structure, Texans are compelled to throw another $8 Billion dollars into a sputtering system that produces the highest rate of adult illiteracy in the nation.
If that’s what it takes for Texas parents to regain control of our schools, let’s do it. Let’s drop another $8 Billion Dollars down their black hole with one provision:
The Money Must Follow The Child!
Texas Is At Stake.
Nothing less than Texas’s future is at stake. Under the abysmal Robin Hood school-funding system, we have severed the link between dollars and accountability. No matter what Texas Public Schools does, or who it does it to, Austin sends virtually unlimited resources. Right now, every man, woman, and child in Texas contributes over $1,500/year to Texas Public Schools. Despite this vast largesse, our children can’t read, write, or compute.
It Must Change.
Under Robin Hood, instead of educating children, Texas school districts spend time conniving to “Game” the system. Their goal is to retain the most money for the least work. They’re very good at what they do.
There Are Numerous Examples.
In the ongoing Wilmer-Hutchins disaster, a Texas Educrat protested including students in her district because it would take too much of her “Energy.” It’s irrelevant to Texas Educrats that Wilmer-Hutchins children have been cheated out of an education for decades. It’s irrelevant that Wilmer-Hutchins ISD citizens have suffered under an illegal school district assessment for years. With Texas Educrats, it’s all about themselves.
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This self-absorbed attitude has devastated Texas children. While Texas Educrats don’t expend “Energy,” 50% of Texas schools cannot make Adequate Yearly Progress under No Child Left Behind.
The “Texas Trail of Tears” continues. While Texas Educrats conserve their “Energy,” 50% of Texas children entering a state university require remedial training in reading, writing, or mathematics.
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What Gets Educrats Energetic?
When it comes to lobbying the Texas Legislature, you’ll NEVER hear a Texas Educrat whining about expending energy. 
Give them the scent of your cash and your children, and Texas Educrats become “Katy Bar The Door”, “No Holds Barred”, “Look Down Shoot Down”, “Take No Prisoners,” “Whatever It Takes,” “The Ends Justify The Means” shock troops doing what’s necessary to preserve their fiefdoms regardless of the cost to Texas children.
Energetic Educrats Move Quickly.
The Texas Legislature meets once every two years. Educrats are adept at making the most of a limited opportunity. During the legislature’s biennial session, the Texas Federation of Teachers and allied organizations throw everything they’ve got into relentlessly harassing Texas legislators. They direct cafeteria workers, janitors, bus drivers, and classroom employees to flood the capital with nonstop phone calls, emails, and letters demanding accountability be eliminated while benefits, perks, and pay increase. Then, as our representatives are about to vote on our children’s future, the unions and their allies inflict the “Coup de Grace.” Your children’s teachers are directed to leave their classrooms and board the buses. Texas Educrats abandon your children to personally troll the halls of the state capital and personally get in the face of every legislator they can corral. Legislators who know nothing about the puffy red face standing six inches from their nose are supposed to decide whether this so-called “Educator” deserves a raise.
Educrats know their compensation must come from Austin, not parents. The last thing Texas Educrats want is to face parents who actually know the quality of the education their child has received. If parents were in charge, there would be no perks, only pink slips.
Educrats Assault The Court.
This term, Texas Educrats found the Legislative and Executive Branches of Texas government less than compliant. The same people that don’t want to expend their “Energy” educating your children didn’t miss a beat. They moved to the Judicial.
At this writing, 329 Texas school districts unable to educate your children with the $1,500 they receive from every man, woman, and child in Texas are suing every man, woman, and child in Texas for more money. Desperate to avoid accountability, they’re demanding cash from the Texas Supreme Court. The justices presiding over the case have even less insight into the Educrats abilities than the legislature they’re striving to circumvent.
We Can’t Let This Happen.
If we let them get even more cash without accountability, Texas Educrats will do nothing. They’ll futz, they’ll fume, they’ll fumble, and they’ll rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic, again. Texas children will continue to be ill-served by the same unaccountable EduBlob that’s failed countless millions of Texas children over and over and over again.
Let’s Buy Them Off.
Texas’ children are too important to gamble with. How the teacher unions, administrators, superintendents, school districts, and the rest of the Texas Edublob managed to divorce performance from compensation is irrelevant. What matters is placing parents in charge. When parents direct resources, children’s needs, not Educrats, will drive how Texas education dollars are spent.
To avoid another ill-conceived judicial decision, I propose that Texas capitulate to the demands of the Texas Federation of Teachers and fund their “so-called” 100% solution with one stipulation:
The Money Must Follow The Child!
Child-based choice lets parents select the public, private, or parochial school that best fits their child.
Choice Gets Better.
As parents now have more than enough money to purchase K12 education, we need to incentivize them to maximize the education dollars they receive.
It’s easily done.
Each Texas child will have a “Voucher Account.” This voucher account will hold the total unspent money the child’s parent has saved by shopping wisely for the child’s education. These funds would then fund education. With unrestricted, fully funded school choice, we get an educated population, permitting Texas to lead the globe in prosperity and perspicacity.
Teachers Will Earn More.
Giving parents “The Power of the Purse” would catapult Educators to the top of paid professionals while summarily dismissing Educrats.
Presently, Texas Educrats have everything. They’ve got the bucks, the buses, the books, and the buildings. They only lack accountability. Let’s give Texas Educrats everything they ask for and insist they be accountable to parents.
Work With Us!
With 100% fully funded educational vouchers and Voucher Accounts, Texas children will reach their full potential without litigation, without remediation, without delay.
Contact the Governor, your state senator, state representative, and your State Board of Education Representative today. Urge them to support 100% Fully Funded School Choice in Texas.
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