Re: education, Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s lack of pragmatism is on display once again. While Dem nominee Chris Bell was in Corpus at the state VFW conference affirming his support for veterans and healthcare, Perry was in Austin getting resistance from teachers for his virulent education policy. While Perry continues to praise the benefit of his archaic standardized test regime, teachers, administrators, parents and education experts continue to denounce the test-only curriculum as a fallacy. Like usual, Rick Perry isn’t listening.
This is what Dr. Linda McNeil, the Co-Director of the Center for Education at Rice University, has to say about Texas’s public schools under Rick Perry:
“Testing has pushed the state into substituting a bogus curriculum of test practice for a real, academically challenging, and instructionally productive curriculum.”
You see? Rick Perry is scary. He hates science, he hates the environment, and his education policy is damaging our state.
Check out what education in Texas will look like with Chris Bell as Governor here and here.
…Great job and a sincere thanks to everyone who voted for the Texas ticket on map changers. Start your engines, round 3 begins later today. The winner hosts a fancy fundraiser with Mark Warner. Lets make that happen. Vote for Chris Bell.
