texas issues

Texas House wants to use federal COVID relief funds to send out $525 checks — but only to homeowners

ironically, most arguments people use in defense of homeschooling or anti-vax ("they are our kids and no government gets to tell us what to do with them) are suddenly invalid when it comes to abortion. Thread continues from here. You can quote or reply to any posts from that part here.

Greg Abbott said today https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1401978575054684175 What is 'patriotic education'? Will it involve teaching that Vicente Guerrero emancipated all slaves in Mexico in 1829? Or that 95% of Texas’ economy was based on cotton production picked by slaves? Or...

The executive staff of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have taken the step of publicly asking for a federal investigation of Paxton on a number of alleged acts of corruption, in a signed letter shared with local media. The rest of the article describes Paxton's earlier legal troubles; the...

http://us.cnn.com/2017/05/07/us/texas-religious-freedom-adoption/index.html Basically if the reading of the bill is correct, a catholic child care provider can refuse adoption to an atheist, gay, or LGBT parent on religious ground. The tidbit about refusing teen abortion on religious ground is...

No way does that have anything to do with the Republican trash that run the state. :rolleyes: They are the pro life party! :rolleyes: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/20/texas-maternal-mortality-rate-health-clinics-funding

Plunging numbers of Texas abortions: Are clinic closings behind decline? It seems pretty obvious that the closings probably have something to do with it. Kind of illustrates why who gets to fill the next Supreme Court vacancy is crucial. It's not just Texas.

Dallas State Representative Jason Villalba has proposed a bill which would make it illegal to record police if you're less than 25 feet away, or less than 100 feet away if you also have a gun. The core of the bill: So: 1) Why is a bill like this necessary, when there's already a law against...

Well the conservatives won in Texas. Abortion is now banned in the state.

http://youngcons.com/texas-attorney-general-to-blm-im-going-to-raise-a-come-and-take-it-flag-so-the-feds-will-stay-out-of-texas/ So, yeah...5th Amendment.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/01/creationism_in_texas_public_schools_undermining_the_charter_movement.single.html If some groups wish to teach this stuff in their own private schools, they are the students they graduate will have to deal with the consequences...

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/28/21215002-federal-judge-rules-key-provisions-of-controversial-texas-abortion-law-unconstitutional?lite Giant win for Texas, and a fail for Rick Perry, the religious right wing and in effect for the Republican party. It's about time. This ruling points...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry: Americans have no right to freedom from religion It must be awfully damn hard to be a Christian in today's America. I salute the proud and courageous Texas governor for sticking to his principles and standing up for freedom OF religion. I'm curious though, since atheists...

I'm at a loss. What is wrong with people?

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57397738/texas-seeks-to-challenge-voting-rights-act/"]Source In the meantime, can someone explain to me what the conservative paranoia over voter fraud is all about? I won't claim to be an expert on the subject, but absolutely nothing has led me to believe...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/20/us-usa-politics-texas-idUSTRE80J16A20120120 "The Supreme Court on Friday ruled in a Texas political dispute, rejecting judge-drawn election maps favoring minority candidates and Democrats in the 2012 congressional and state legislature elections. In...

Who benefitted most from Rick Perry's "Texas Miracle?" 80% of the new jobs created in Texas since 2007 has gone to recent immigrants, both legal and illegal. http://cis.org/immigrants-filled-most-new-jobs-in-Texas I find #7 to be particularly interesting. A result of Texas’s poor...

Temporary stay granted for Texas death row inmate

Found this article online. http://www.good.is/post/people-are-awesome-muslim-hate-crime-victim-petitions-to-save-his-attacker-s-life/

The Texas Board of Education will consider a ruling on Islam's portrayal in history and social studies text books. Apparently the Board of Education in Texas is concerned that Islam is given more coverage than Christianity in history and social studies text books and that it is skewed to an...

Due to deficits in the Texas state budget, Texas will be cutting funding for education. Public schools will be getting less money. In order to stay within the available budget for next year, what does my Clear Creek Independent School District (CCISD) elementary school cut? A: Art Teacher B...

More goodness, from the Republic of Texas. The opening paragraph: __________ During the Texas State Board of Education hearings on science standards for Texas schoolchildren, BoE member and staunch creationist Barbara Cargill decided that the age of the Universe was up for vote. Oddly enough, I...

Who'da thunk it? Legislators may strip education board of power Politicians actually demonstrating some common sense!

From TFN Insider: seems that the Texas Board of Education, is having a go at trying to re-do the curriculum. Again. To quote from the article: --- The Texas State Board of Education is set to appoint a social studies curriculum “expert” panel that includes absurdly unqualified ideologues who are...

I've placed this here, because of the content; although, it could probably be crossed-posted. I guess if you can't get ID taught in schools, do the next best thing: attempt to 'question' what's being taught... Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal...

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/education/Evolution_teaching_provision_fails_first_test.html But there are more votes to come... gah.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gx9BSiNT08U9pbZDfbxHOlYCW6ZgD95KB5300 The state of Texas recently introduced random drug testing for student athletes in order to combat the perceived problem of steroid use by high school students. The results: Hmm...4 cases out of 10,000...

Good news, everybody! http://www.star-telegram.com/state_news/story/1118331.html

I have not done an exhaustive search so I'm not sure if there are other threads regarding this; the NYTimes and AP are reporting that the Texas state's Board of Education has given final approval to officially offering bible study classes in public high schools. Classes started in 2007 pending...

There are some rotten things going on in within Texas education right now. I am sure many of you have heard some or all of this. I will just provide a bullet summary of the history here. Then I'll provide resources to do something about it. I'll be linking extensively to our friend the Bad...