Microscale Mutual Aid School Projects

Will you participate in one or more microscale mutual aid projects to help students and families who are being harmed by the inequity divide widened by this pandemic? This is a collaboration between teachers/staff who are CVPE/HFT members and CVPE parents, teachers, students and community members.  Read more

Texas Schools Must Not Be Rated

Schools, jobs, and our very lives are on hold. School accountability A-F ratings must be put on hold as well.  Read more

Governor, Don't rate our schools this year

Schools are feeding students and families, offering distance learning, providing emotional and social support, and looking out for our communities. They should not have to be worried about STAAR and school accountability too. Read more

Focus on the Whole Child-not STAAR- during this Pandemic

We ask that the governor and the Texas Education Agency learn lessons from the Coronavirus pandemic to focus on the whole child including paid sick leave, wraparound services, health care, and ensuring that homeless students have a roof over their heads, not just a place to sleep at night. Read more

Charters in the News

Public education is the cornerstone of our great democracy. Let us -together- demand strong schools for all children in every neighborhood regardless of zip code. Read more

March 16 Rally against State Takeover

Rally Against State Takeover at the Governor's mansion in Austin on March 16 Read more

The made-up crisis behind the state takeover of Houston’s public schools

Read Domingo Morel's "The made-up crisis behind the state takeover of Houston’s public schools Read more

Houston: The Betrayal of the Public Schools As State Attacks Democracy

Diane Ravitch writes on her blog- The public schools of Houston are going to be taken over by the incompetent State Education Department, which has never run a school district of any size and which has failed in its previous takeover efforts. Read more

Chron Uses Propaganda to Legitimize Takeover

Recently, the Houston Chronicle editorial board used misleading facts and misrepresentation to misinform its readers...    Read more

Interview with Domingo Morel about the Harm of State Takeovers

When states take over school districts, they say it’s about academics. This political scientist says it’s about race and power. Read more