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Here’s my notes on Texas latest update to the “school choice”/voucher bill, SB2 Substitute.
Very little changes, still a terrible bill for all taxpayers but vendors & donors.
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I don’t want the government in private & home schools.
I didn’t want the Republican government in them & I sure don’t want the Democrat government in them either.
Patrick wants the democrats in control of private & home schools so he skips facts, data & debate & jumps right to calling me a communist.
Republicans!!! This is EXACTLY how & why party rebuilding won’t be successful until this behavior is addressed.
@mcguinnessfortx ran for office in 22 & lost his primary. The seat he ran for has now been flipped blue. Maybe just maybe those voters got sick of the name calling & lies about vouchers.
Patrick is also a supporter of data centers, could he be anymore anti-we the people but he thinks I’m a communist…..
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Hollie Plemons retweeted
Meritless TIA/TEI teacher merit pay has been funded by the Gates Foundation through grants to Todd Williams of Commit and implemented statewide in Texas since 2019.
Oligarchs can make anyone do anything through money carrots called grants.
Dallas ISD was a pilot for TEI under Mike Miles who was sent packing in 2015.
The Dallas Commit Cabal failed upward under Morath and Abbott who appointed these men at the recommendation of the Dallas oligarchy.
Last week was a true reckoning for Texas parents, teachers, and students who suffered for more than a decade under their costly reforms.
Williams and Commit lobbied under a shell org called Texas Impact Network for TWO meritless merit pay bills signed by Abbott.
HB 3 - 86th session - Created the Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) Program which established performance-based pay for “highly effective” teachers. (That’s code for those who do well with STAAR prep and high-stakes testing results and they generally have easier to teach students.) It also created a narrow pathway for teachers to earn six-figure salaries.
Hey, how about we use the money on all the edtech experiments on Chromebooks and iPads to pay all teachers six figures and train them well???
Nah…testing giants and tech overlords would suffer.
HB 2 - 89th session ($20B boondoggle) - Expanded the TIA Program and increased funding for merit-based teacher compensation. Included approximately $4 billion for teacher and staff raises and incentive programs.
💸 Educate Texas and Commit are both funded by Gates and TEA.
💸 Communities Foundation/Educate Texas has received about $25M from Gates.
💸 Communities Foundation/Educate Texas over the last 5 years raked in over $30 million from TEA.
💸 That's 6 times more than CFT received prior to Morath's arrival at TEA.
💸 TEA funding to Commit was $11,518,497 through 2024. I don’t have the current figures.
In 2013 Bill Gates said, "Today, districts are revamping the way they evaluate teachers. But we still give them almost no feedback that actually helps them improve their practice." ~TED Talks Education.
Never listen to an oligarch or a technocrat regarding education.
Never. Never. Never.
Hollie Plemons retweeted
7 out of 10 coupons went to those already not in public school in the first year of the program. Bill stated 86% by 2030.
Yes, I am for completing ending the subsidy program you voted in with a max 5-year walk back plan so current families who got coupons can make other plans.
Just like I warned you after @lynnsdavenport debate, the religious protections in the bill were only temporary, 2 years. Here I am right but still not winning any prizes. I warned you about turning this program over to the wrong hands & it only took me a few months to be proven right.
I absolutely don’t want the government in my private or homeschools. I didn’t want the R govt & I absolutely don’t want the D govt either.
As for those that lose their coupons I think it would be great for the billion/millionaires that pushed SB2 like Tim Dunn, Alex Cranberg, Jess Yass & Dick Weekley to personally pay the rest of the tuition after the program ends for those students until they graduate.
I never wanted to pay this new tax you forced upon me that caused us to lose our private school & I still don’t want to pay it.
Vouchers.
Tax CREDITS.
School choice.
All expands government & lets the government into private & homeschools. It is NOT a conservative policy & never will be.
A tax exemption is the only way to do this & keep our liberties intact. This is also the exact policy idea that R’s sold to voters then delivered on none of it.
However, it’ll just help those already not using public school the most….same as all the other flavors of subsidies that voucher vultures advocate for.
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I’m not shocked that you are still wrong on vouchers.
A tax credit means the govt takes your money, gives some back with strings & expands the govt to oversee giving taxpayers the money back.
That’s not a conservative policy either.
A tax exemption is.
If you don’t use public schools then you can opt to be exempt from paying your M&O taxes. This is the EXACT bill I provided you during session.
It’s past time that elected officials answer these very basic questions from we the people.
Come on @AndyHopperTX.
I agree with you on #1, 2 & 3.
What you left out is why you didn’t rally hard this last session to take these powers from Abbott who DID use them just like a DICTATOR….isn’t that the word @brianeharrison used?
Serious question, I’m all ears.
If you are a Texan voter who NORMALLY votes R but this election voted D, what was the main reason?
40%Affordability/Prop tax
11%Data Centers/Flock
21%Vouchers/Education
28%THC/Hemp
1,522 votes • 15 hours Hollie Plemons retweeted
I've never met a person that regretted... NOT getting the COVID vax.
I wonder if anyone will regret... NOT getting the @GregAbbott_TX Impact app?
"Dang! If I just would have downloaded a globalist data mining and tracking app... and submitted all my friends without their consent... things would be different..."
OTOH, who knows what they'll use that data for in the future...?
Hollie Plemons retweeted
Thanks for acknowledging these things. Better late than never. I’ll send you the hat.
Yup
Is anyone concerned about all the centralizing of power that the fake conservative Rs did during the 89th session... now that the Ds will control the state government?
You should be... and no one should have supported:
- fake school choice
- fake parental rights amendment
- centralized bail bond reform
To name a few.
Over a decade+ Globalist @GregAbbott_TX worked diligently to remove autonomy from individuals and local government... now, he's handing all of this top-down oversight he accrued to Ds.
Almost like it was planned that way.
Texas Republicans have now entered the FO stage after FA with vouchers & moms.
They were warned. Warned with alllll the reasons why the bill was bad. Warned loudly too.
I don’t have a crystal ball, just ears that listen to tens of thousands of voters, feet that can walk, hands that can knock, a voice that understands the assignment, eyes that can read, a brain that can critically think & a nose that can smell bullshit.
To all elected officials,
Don’t be disrespectful to the voters for the benefit of your million/billionaire donors because we the people do hold all the power.
Also, an absolute ton of Texas political consultants & talking heads need to be fired. Immediately. Blame is on the elected officials fully but there is enough blame to go around for these grifters too.
Thank sell out republicans, lobbyists, globalist donors & greedy private school leaders for turning our private & homeschools over to democrats. Time will tell if they do students, like my son, dirty too or respect true educational freedom & parents.
I’m rooting for we the people, as always.
Hollie Plemons retweeted
Here’s my notes on Texas latest update to the “school choice”/voucher bill, SB2 Substitute.
Very little changes, still a terrible bill for all taxpayers but vendors & donors.
🧵 1/3
Hollie Plemons retweeted
Many are upset that a Democrat will be governor.
Few are upset that Abbott is gone.
Like I wrote, she is a coward. Proven.
She bullied a patriot with false allegations, got called out on it & to debate the issue but she ran away crying, calling foul then hid like a true coward.
I love being proven right. Thanks, Spring.
@SpringPhoenix76 is a coward that hates debate on public issues that should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open. She limited my ability to reply to her so I’ll just make a new post. 💁🏻♀️
According to her public profile she is the GOP Chairman for Mills County. She gets almost no traction on X yet she spends most of her time tweeting.
Why is this elected GOP official attacking a well known red voting Patriot on X vs spending her time doing her elected job of GOTV for the GOP in her county?
Spring can’t debate the facts that the Abbott app is 100% data mining. Why doesn’t she want potential & current users to fully know what they are doing to their personal contact list when they use the app?
Winning at all costs isn’t winning for the people, just the candidate, the club & their bootlickers.
The list of lobbyists that attacked me on X is long. I was right.
Stop listening to lobbyists or attending their events, they are NOT for we the people. They are for who pays them.
“For months, @Hollie_Plemons has been warning GOP lawmakers that they would pay a price for ignoring their constituents’ furious opposition to vouchers, what she characterizes as the governor’s “transfer of taxpayer money to his donors.” That price? “[R]ed seats all across the state,” she predicted. “It only took two weeks to prove me right.” ~@BisforBerkshire
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Hollie Plemons retweeted
DOGE Don could easily expose the decades of Gates grants and Morath’s payments to Commit with OUR money.
Commit’s major funders are TEA, Gates and Ballmer 👀
Educate Texas is a Gates-funded P3 which receives taxpayer funds from TEA.
All you peacocks 🦚 can talk about is trans and DEI while you hand our kids over to oligarchs, edtech vendors and testing giants. @Woodyboy2020
Commit founder (a Dallas Dem named Todd Williams) was appointed by Abbott to FOUR education boards + commissions in Texas to steer education funding to his pet reforms. (TIA, testing, edtech, etc)
There’s a reason Don won’t DOGE Dallas ISD and the largest school bond in Texas history. Commit was the largest donor to the PAC that got the $6B bond passed.
Don protects Morath and the fake “Dallas Miracle” because Dallas is the beta test for all the FAILED education reform.
Mandy Ringwald of @TPPF mentioned @Commit2Dallas as a culprit in the “ed cartel” but NEVER takes the time to understand WHO they are and why they are driving up ⬆️ bond debt across Texas while advising Abbott.
TPPF plays both sides. So does DOGE Don. I have all the receipts…
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"The very entities that stand to benefit from billions of dollars in debt, they're the ones that are actually pushing this scheme, this debt on the taxpayers." #txlege
