Rep. John Ray Clemmons pushes his bill to stop schools from punishing kids to force parents to pay meal debt.
GOP Reps Terri Lynn Weaver & Jerry Sexton struggle with it, while Rep Ragan wants to make meal debt a child abuse/DCS issue.
A new WNYC podcast episode discusses the concerns brought up in charter commission hearing this week.
HIGHLIGHTS: STATE CHARTER SCHOOL COMMISSION CONFIRMATIONS
WATCH Rep. @JerrySexton19 – who said “we all make mistakes” about a child sex abuser and a KKK Grand Wizard – press candidates to ignore potential harm caused to cash-strapped public schools. pic.twitter.com/ddtvCgUG3A
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It centers on Marin County, California, where a new charter school took resources from a public school, leaving many (black) kids behind and segregating the schools.
If you have the time, it’s a worthwhile listen— not that it will change the hearts of pr0 “school choice” legislators, but it offers some perspective that the legislators pushing back against what they call “choice” are actually thinking about the kids left behind – who this podcast gives voice to – not trying to hold the kids they’re trying to help back.
Unfortunately at the end of the day education funding is a zero-sum game, which is why adding money to the pot – as Democratic legislators called for this week – is really the best way to help all our kids.
“Let’s not channel MLK, who was about nonviolence, in the same sentence as a rally for WEAPONS OF DEATH.”
Rep. Antonio Parkinson & Rep. Mitchell respond as GOP Caucus leader Jeremy Faison invokes MLK & calls AR-15’s “weapons of LIFE” as he honors Richmond’s anti-gun safety law rally.
Rep. Larry Miller was also booed, in a break from House decorum.
And Rep. Andy Holt outrageously wondered why we don’t see guns being a problem with 393 million of them in circulation in the USA.
Watch Rep. Micah Van Huss tells us why he’s pushing his taxpayer money-wasting resolution to label CNN & Washington Post “FAKE NEWS” — despite the fact that he once famously cited The Onion in a committee hearing. ?
Democratic National Committee At-Large Member Marisa Richmond (1 of our 9 superdelegates) clearly explains a process we found confusing… until now!
Hope this helps. Registration deadline for the March 3rd Primary is TODAY!
REPUBLICAN REP. Kent Calfee says “There’s a bill to repeal VOUCHERS… because there was every kind of DIRTY TRICK IN THE BOOK — BRIBES, THREATS, everything else to get it passed.”
Calfee lets loose on how Disgraced former Speaker Glen Casada & Gov Bill Lee got Lee’s public school-harming vouchers through.?
“WE STAND WITH BRITTANY!”
VIDEO of a protest at Lipscomb after John Rich of Big & Rich caused a firestorm over the mention of “white privilege” in class & Dean Brittany Paschall’s racially tough (but true) writings.
Rich: “Racism doesn’t exist at LU.”
Students: “Lie.”
“We‘ll continue to move forward. In the future my community won’t be ostracized anymore. We may as well start working on that. It’s inevitable.”
After an anti-?️? speaker at Lipscomb U’s chapel this week, student Konnor Davis strikes a chord of UNITY, HOPE & STRENGTH.???
We asked Rep. John ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Ragan why he asked about the American Psychology Association’s stance on Conversion Therapy in committee. He says he’s “gathering info”.
The APA is against conversion therapy. It’s banned in 19 states.
Ogles stresses “distraction” & activist “yelling”?says moving it is “respectful”—suggests putting crosses in the capitol.
Newly woke disgraced ex-speaker Casada now says “change is painful but good”.
Senator Jack Johnson: “THE GOVERNOR HAS NOT WEIGHED IN YET” — Johnson reminds us Governor Lee controls 7 of the 12 state Capitol commission votes on MOVING THE KKK GRAND WIZARD BUST out of our Capitol.
You know who also hasn’t weighed in? SENATOR JACK JOHNSON.