Here Comes the Special
What to know: Texas legislators are gearing up for an expected special session on education and parent empowerment.
The TPPF take: This is the year for parent empowerment, and Texas GOP leadership is ready to deliver.
“Throughout the last year, we’ve worked hard to advance parent empowerment,” says TPPF’s Mandy Drogin. “But our opponents have worked hard, too—mostly to mislead and fearmonger. The unions, education lobbyists, and administrators, whose only goal is to rake more money in to the system, worry that parental empowerment will erode their control and require greater accountability.”
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Dirty Deeds
What to know: A Bridgeport ISD employee was caught putting more than $5,400 on a district credit card “at The Men’s Club, a Houston strip club.”
The TPPF take: ISDs are making a bad habit out of lusting after Other People’s Money.
“A culture of excess pervades Texas public schools. That much is obvious from their sky-high administrator salaries to their Taj Mahal facilities to their water parks and private planes. And now, some school employees are brazenly wasting tax dollars at strip clubs,” says TPPF’s James Quintero. “We need a complete and total overhaul of how public schools spend our money.”
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Border Battle
What to know: House Republicans must demand border security as a condition of any continuing budget resolution, Congressman Chip Roy contends.
The TPPF take: The Biden administration continues to defend corrupt Mexican officials and criminal cartels, rather than defending our homeland and our border.
“The entire affair is a great tragedy — and a great danger to the future of the United States,” says TPPF’s Greg Sindelar. “All we can say for sure is that if the Biden regime fights for Mexico, it is Texas, now, that fights for America.”
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