Governor Abbott kicked off his reelection on Sunday by promoting a referendum to abolish school property taxes. That’s right; the very taxes that fund the majority of our public schools. Our kids’ education is on the line.
We must speak the truth at every turn. You can speak Thursday at the Board of Managers meeting or attend this event Wednesday in the Heights:
Mike Morath, Texas Education Commissioner, will be at Vineyard Church, 1035 E 11th St, Houston, TX 77009, from 2–4 PM. Details & RSVP: [link]. Morath is Governor Abbott’s appointed mouthpiece. Let him hear the harm being done to Houston children under his watch.
Meanwhile, Mike Miles keeps peddling lies about “progress,” while his authoritarian test-and-punish system crushes real learning and drives out great teachers. Pick a lie. Call it out. Fire the liar.
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Speak Thursday! Deadline: Wed, Nov. 12 at noon. Sign up with a friend and turn your 150 words into a longer waterfall speech. Here are three suggested agenda items. Here's the full agenda packet. Pick any item that matters to you. Have more to say? Item 1 – Audit Committee: HISD outsourced audits in 2023. Without an elected board accountable to its constituents at the ballot box, Miles can funnel student dollars into pet projects like $1.3M on consultants as the bond failed [Hou Chronicle]. His SB 1882 partnerships are shaping up like the 2005 Sears-Kmart merger—a private equity-style takeover where assets were stripped, real estate sold, and value cannibalized. Miles wants to do the same to seven HISD schools, and this time, it will be our kids who suffer. Item 2 – Goal Progress Measures: Temporary “goal measures” hide the truth: students aren’t learning under endless testing. Smoke and mirrors, not real education. Item 8 – District Improvement Plan: A real plan lifts up schools. Miles uses our tax dollars for a news station and roving truck to spin lies. Miles has no shame and actually built it into the district improvement plan. RSVP: houstonCVPE.org/events. |
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