broken down The Pledge into 6 areas where we want to focus and were going to file legislation Isaac tells Insiders Jim Cardle.
Governor Abbott said at the end of the last session that it was the most conservative session that weve ever had and we feel like that was due or attributed to our leadership in the Senate our leadership in the House and the members of the Texas Conservative Coalition.
To become a member you have to have met a certain threshold score to meet certain conservative requirements. If you meet them youre considered a Conservative Champion and we try to travel around the state and celebrate our success and let voters know that they have a truly conservative representative thats made the grade Isaac said.
The Texas Conservative Coalition is made up of members of the legislature that get together and work together to either pass bills or kill bills that we dont think align with our L.I.F.T. Principles.
But now they say that with the STAAR test theyre spending 46 days of the school year preparing kids to take the test. Thats a quarter of the school year preparing kids to take the test when they should be focusing on preparing them for their future.
So Im all for empowering what we call independent school districts that actually have a diminishing level of independence these days... or our school board members that are ironically called trustees but yet we place little trust in them to manage their districts. So were working on some reform ideas that will give individual districts the ability to choose a nationally-normed standardized test that meets our state laws meaning no Common Core said Isaac.
