New Revenue Estimate Shows Cuts Alone Cannot Close the Gap, as New Poll Shows...
State Comptroller Susan Combs today officially estimated the state treasury will take in $77.3 billion in general revenue over the 2012-2013 budget cycle, but she also projected that more than $4...
View ArticleLikely Texas Voters Say Education is Their Top Issue, New Poll Confirms
A new poll out today from the Texas Lyceum confirms what we already pretty well knew—the top issue for likely voters in Texas heading into the 2012 elections is education. Politicians, take heed! The...
View ArticleNew Opinion Poll Shows 90 Percent of Texans Support More Funding for Public...
Texas legislators who think they enjoy public backing for the deep cuts they made in public education this year should think again. A July 2011 opinion survey by the independent Texas Poll,...
View ArticleTheir Future, Our Fight
A back-to-school opinion piece by Texas AFT President Linda Bridges has been picked up by a number of print-media outlets around the state this week, and we are pleased to share it with you here as...
View ArticleTeachers Overpaid? The Public’s Not Buying This Nonsense: New Opinion Poll
Perhaps you recall last fall’s strained attempt by purported scholars at the American Enterprise Institute and Heritage Foundation to make the case that American teachers are overpaid. (See the Texas...
View ArticleTexas AFT, Allies Call for Use of New Flood of State Revenue to Restore...
At a capitol press event today, a coalition of pro-public-school advocates joined state Rep. Mike Villarreal, Democrat of San Antonio, in a call to restore state funding for public education that was...
View Article70 Percent Oppose Vouchers (Among Other Key Findings of the PDK/Gallup Poll)
Support for public schools and opposition to private-school vouchers come through loud and clear in the latest Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup poll of Americans’ attitudes toward public education...
View ArticleMore Evidence of Public Disenchantment with Standardized Testing
While Texas and other states are under pressure from the federal government to increase the emphasis on standardized testing in teacher evaluation, the public nationwide and in Texas seems to be...
View ArticleNew Poll Confirms Nationwide Turn Against Overtesting and Underfunding
The new school year commencing this week brings new evidence of a continuing turn in public opinion nationwide against the misuse and overuse of standardized testing. The newly reported results of the...
View ArticleAmericans are fed up with misuse of high-stakes testing
The results of the latest PDK/Gallup Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schoolsshow in no uncertain terms that the public is calling for an end to the fixation on and misuse of testing,...
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