Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas Competition brings improvement and therefore it is important to provide an alternative to public schools that is available to low-income families as well as the well-to-do.
However the requirement for some sort of school choice does not replace the need for reforming the public education system in Texas.
There are over five million students in Texas K-12 public schools. In the forseeable future only a small percentage of these can be liberated by school choice legislation.
Legislative Action:
- Create a voucher system that provides funding for families who wish to spend the money on private school tuition. It is important that the funds are allocated to the student and are used by the family to pay for their school of choice.
Read more by Bill Ames:- PART III - AMES: Public Schools Seek to Limit Accountability by Reducing-Eliminating Student Testing
- PART II - More than School Testing: THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON NEXT GENERATION ASSESSMENTS & ACCOUNTABILITY
- PART I - Texas Public Schools De-Emphasize Academic Knowledge in Favor of Unproven Fads
- Texas Educators Ideology & Visions" Penalize Students
- AMES: Texas Trounces the Lefts War on History
- Education UPDATE: Texas ISDs Should Comply with Texas Social Studies Standards
- A Conservatives Guide to Education in Texas 84th Legislative Session
- APUSH Provides Contempt for America in Texas High Schools
- CSCOPE The Obamacare of Texas Public Education
- Happy Birthday America … We hate you!
- A Series on CSCOPE Part 3: Common Core Project Based Learning Damages Texas Students
Bill Ames is an education activist who lives in Dallas. His book TEXAS TROUNCES THE LEFTS WAR ON HISTORY" (WNAenterprises.com) tells the story of his experience in developing Texas U. S. history standard in 2009-2010.
Ames reviewed CSCOPE lessons as part of the State Board of Educations Ad Hoc Committee Project. His work in his local school district resulted in Board reviews of both its Social Studies Curriculum and Project Based Learning implementation as well as securing a superintendent commitment to modify the AP History course to be Texas standards (TEKS) compliant. He welcomes reader comments at billames@prodigy.net
