Read how Superintendent John Kuhn said, “There are 5 million kids in Texas waiting for this legislature to keep our forefather’s promises, and to those who want to take away that promise, I’m with the moms and the trustees and local business people who will say what brave Texans have said before, come and take it. Just try to kill that promise of our Constitution.”
Read how State Senator Kirk Watson said, “The verdict is in, and it says the Texas school system is inadequate, unfair and isn’t even constitutional,”
Read how Former State Commissioner of Education Robert Scott said that some people think that the $488 million contract to Pearson was , “the tail wagging the dog…. [but] I don’t. I look at it as the flea at the end of the tail of the dog trying to wag the dog.”
He said, “I had to turn in my reformer card because I looked at it as a flea circus,” he said. “They are selling two ideas and two ideas only: No. 1, your schools are failing, and No. 2, if you give us billions of dollars, we can convince you [of] the first thing we just told you.”
And I said, among other things, “The testing vampire started here,” meaning NCLB. “Kill it.”
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