Give this a close read. Our governor himself is part of this horrible drama. He has no vision for the future unless destroying public education is a part of this narrative. Terrible leadership.
Greg Abbott is pushing as hard as he can to bury the actual truth of Strong Public Support for Public Education in Texas. Why is he even governor if he's working against parents' and communities' actual wishes?
That said, the story below is about how bad it really is right now in so many of our schools and districts. This anti-CRT movement is a convenient tool of the education privatizers about which I posted earlier today.
Without question, our schools are experiencing an unprecedented shake-up with retiring superintendents and fewer teacher applicants, losing career educators from the system. Crisis management is a new skill that any aspiring superintendent must have. I also think that they should take a college course in Critical Race Theory so that they can better defend their schools against this nonsense.
-Angela Valenzuela
As culture wars envelop schools, North Texas sees a superintendent exodus
Former Richardson school district Superintendent Jeannie Stone said the increasingly contentious climate surrounding Texas public schools prompted her decision to step down.
Educating kids is all Jeannie Stone ever wanted to do. She spent more than three decades in North Texas school districts, first as a teacher and eventually as an administrator.
After she was named Richardson Independent School District’s superintendent five years ago, she drew accolades for how well she advocated for district parents and the strides she made in closing the vast learning gap between students of color and white students. The Texas PTA named her superintendent of the year in 2019. Last year, the Dallas Business Journal named her a “leader in diversity.” Then it all came to a sudden stop.
She quit.
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