Abbott to talk education platform at Lubbock High School Tuesday

[TexasTowelie]

Attorney General Greg Abbott will promote the second piece of his education platform, “Educating Texans,” in Lubbock Tuesday.

The Republican gubernatorial candidate will present at Lubbock High School at 1:10 p.m. The event is not open to the public, according to Abbott’s press secretary.

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[font color=green]Abbott has been going around the state squawking about his education platform--last week he was at Victoria High School in the Coastal Bend area. The one thing that is consistent though is that "the event is not open to the public." Excuse the vernacular, but it is time for Abbott to "man up" and hold these discussions in the public to field questions from the voters and stop using high schools as backdrops for the photo-ops that he uses for his campaign signs. Please inform us how you (Abbott) plan to test pre-K students so that the schools can receive a pittance of the educational funding that was cut by Governor Perry and the Republicans in the Legislature. I doubt that he has the cojones to do it though.[/font]

[TxDemChem]

1. Thank you TexasTowelie!!! His visits to talk about education are a farce.

As a parent, I too would like to know his plans for Texas education, and it had better not be prayer and guns in school.

[TexasTowelie]

4. Appointment cancelled due to high winds, Abbott's plane couldn't land. nt

[TxDemChem]

6. Too bad it wasn't cancelled for other reasons,

like local parents protesting.

[DhhD]

2. AFT-American Federation of Teachers Texas Branch on Abbott and Privatization

Gubernatorial Candidate Abbott Aligns with Education Privatizers Posted on April 24, 2014 by Texas AFT Staff

Attorney General Greg Abbott, seeking the governorship on the Republican ticket, this week more clearly than ever aligned himself with those who want to privatize the operation of public schools. Abbott recycled two ideas from the privateers’ playbook—eliminating state education standards in the name of “local control” on the one hand, and on the other creating a state “achievement school district” that would allow state takeover of campuses rated low-performing and handover of those schools to private operators. The common thread here is the creation of more and more opportunities for private interests, especially corporate charter chains, to take over public schools and receive public funds without having to meet key state education standards such as class-size limits and teachers’ professional contracts. - See more at: http://texasaftblog.com/hotline/?p=3726#sthash.ok2Wqa5V.dpuf

[DhhD]

3. Could Abbott's closed door policy be about moving public tax money into private charters? How about

changing control of schools by parents and educators to business men and women? Hope Democrats were watching who was walking into the high schools to listen to Abbott. Seems like the Chamber of Commerce members would be going on in. How about ALEC and the Jeb Bush crowd?

[TexasTowelie]

5. Appointment cancelled due to high winds, Abbott's plane couldn't land. nt