Issues

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CVPE Campaigns for 2024-2025

Local Priorities 2024-2025

  1. Stop the harmful $4.4 Billion Bond [We beat it!]
  2. Oppose the harmful state takeover of Houston ISD 
  3. Return wraparound program to schools gutted by Mike Miles
  4. Support teacher and support staff raises so that teachers are fairly paid and their input valued and so that children have teachers who are skilled and who know them in their schools. Oppose Miles' destructive teacher evaluation and pay for performance plan and support programs.
  5. Support smaller class size to promote personalization and improved learning.

State Legislative Policy Priorities

  1. Support legislation to limit state takeovers and to ensure the return to a locally elected school board (SB 564.) 
  2. Oppose vouchers (SB2) because they defund public schools, devastate student learning, and discriminate against vulnerable kids and families
  3. Support an increase to the basic allotment and a transition to enrollment-based funding vs attendance-based funding (HB 1257.) Enrollment-based funding provides stability by ensuring schools receive consistent resources based on the number of students enrolled, not daily attendance. This approach supports equity, prevents sudden cuts to services, and better accounts for factors like absenteeism in underserved communities.
  4. Support programs that increase opportunities for student learning and reduce the high stakes consequences of standardized testing.
    1. End requirement that students pass STAAR in order to graduate. Texas is one of only seven states to require standardized testing for graduation.
    2. Abolish the A-F rating system based almost entirely on STAAR.
  5. Support a charter expansion moratorium. Charters drain dollars from our public schools and they get more money than our public schools and that means fewer resources for children who choose to attend their local public school. In most cases, they do not provide higher performance or innovation and are supported by billionaires who want to privatize public education.

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Read about Past Issues (2011-2023) here