Republican Candidate Tries to Sell Education Policy At School He Is Fighting In Court

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It’s time for an update on Greg Abbott’s amateur hour in Texas Politics.  Wendy Davis’ Republican opponent is planning to hold a press conference to unveil his education policy at a school district that lost the equivalent of 118 teachers because of the public education cuts Abbot continues to defend.  In fact, Abbott is battling with the Spring Branch Independent School District in court over those cuts.  Now maybe Greg Abbott doesn’t know that when you cost a school 118 teachers and then battle the school in court, the odds of finding a friendly audience are virtually non-existent.

But then, Abbott has a bit of a problem because he is battling 600 districts to defend a whopping $5.4 billion in cuts to the public education budget. If he had vetted his press conference location, he might have found that district in the Greater Houston Area he isn’t fighting in Court.

Hurting the quality of children’s education with huge budget cuts then defending those cuts in court isn’t the best way to sell yourself as a pro-education candidate.  Parents and teachers in the districts that Abbott is battling in court have already seen first-hand, what his anti-public education policies have done to the quality of education the children they love and teach will receive.  The reality is that with a total of 11,000 fewer teachers because of budget cuts; class sizes grow and that has an adverse effect on the quality of education that each child receives.

“Perhaps the problem is that Greg Abbott is having trouble locating a school district in the entire state of Texas that’s not currently fighting him in a courtroom lawsuit,” said Zac Petkanas, Davis Campaign Communications Director.

Abbott’s so called education policy is already doomed with bad ideas on Pre-K that were recommended by white supremacist and misogynist, Charles Murray.  The roll-out was a disaster as Abbott tried to run away from a policy of standardized testing four-year-olds.  Wendy Davis’ exposed the truth about Abbott’s intent to do the testing and use it to determine which children will have access to pre-K and which will not and eventually, Abbott had to own the policy he hoped Texans wouldn’t find out about.

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Adalia Woodbury

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