Voting Resources
Education
“You can’t grow your economy if you don’t have an educated workforce.” – Those words from Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick could not be more true. Texas is leading the way with bold, conservative education reform that ditches the idea of “college for all” and instead gives students and their parents multiple pathways to a career. Teachers, administrators and students must be held accountable for competent performance. The system should be free from undue bias, which can distort students' perspectives on the world they must interact with to be competitive in a global market.
March 30th, 2011
Education budgets around the nation have become extremely bloated over the past few decades while education has not gotten any better. Below are three interesting statistics about money, grades, and Texas teacher to non...
March 15th, 2011
In these lean budgetary times, Texas schools, and more specifically Texas teachers, are being targeted to balance our state’s budget, but does it have to be this way? The more than 1,000 school districts in the state of...
November 23rd, 2010
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said he had a dream his children would grow up in a nation where they were not judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.I too have the same dream for future...
March 21st, 2011
A scant twenty two protestors including three MoveOn.org organizers waved their signs in front of Bill Brown Elementary in Bulverde, Texas on March 15. This is hardly a strong showing of teacher union sympathizers in Comal...
December 23rd, 2010
Leave it to Boston to send out permission slips to parents about their children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in the classroom. The letter a principal at The Edward Devotion School sent to parents read:Dear Devotion...
May 20th, 2010
The following opinion article was sent in from the Republican National Committee and was written by Chairman Michael Steele. It was first posted on CNN.Washington (CNN) -- Fifty-six years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed...
