Time to put pressure on the legislature to get our Ethnic Studies bills heard this legislative session. Please call your representatives in the House for a hearing for BOTH HB1817 and HB366. Also call your representative on the Senate side for a hearing of SB695.
Contact information appears below for the House and Senate Education Committee representatives, respectively.
If any of you live in the districts of any of the members listed below, do know that you are one of their constituents and call them since a call from you as one of their constituents means a whole lot more than if they receive a
call from someone that is not a constituent. If you do not know who represents
you, click here to find out.
If none of the house or senate members represent you, then reach out to the chairs themselves or better yet, tell families, friends, and members of organizations that live in their districts to begin making calls.
One last, very important point. The Texas State Board of Education
may also implement this without being forced by the legislature to do
so. Yes, they are empowered to simply do the right thing. So if they see that the legislature is getting pressured, they can move on their end without a law making them do this.
The legislative session goes very fast so we all need to get on this right away.
Angela Valenzuela
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This blog on Texas education contains posts on accountability, testing, K-12 education, postsecondary educational attainment, dropouts, bilingual education, immigration, school finance, environmental issues, Ethnic Studies at state and national levels. It also represents my digital footprint, of life and career, as a community-engaged scholar in the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin.
Saturday, February 25, 2017
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