1/8 I have worked in 2 isds and 1 charter for 30 total years, and served on a private school board for 6 years. I support school choice and the rights of parents. Even so, these are the reasons I think #sb8 needs to be changed from its current form.
2/8 The #txlege needs to change #sb8 so that if they want public dollars to be able to go to private schools, then those receiving schools should then agree to be subjected to the same regulations and measurement that is required of public schools.
3/8 If you believe that requiring regulations/measurement for ESA recipient schools will ruin the private schools and make #sb8 less attractive to both parents and the private schools, then isn't that an indictment of the policies that are required of public schools right now?
4/8 If you champion competition, then make things competitive. Without the same measurements, though, how do you know which is better between two things? Without any measurement how do you know something is good at all? #sb8 does not allow any #STAAR measurement in Art 2.
5/8 If you support accountability and transparency, then why agree to the Autonomy provisions for ESA recipient schools in #sb8? If you believe in the essential parent rights of Article 1 of #sb8 then why would you exempt ESA recipient schools from adhering to those rights?
6/8 If you support parents of students with disabilities then why would you authorize a bill that forces them to make an unnecessary choice between services for their child or this new program?
7/8 If #sb8 is passed as written, then that confirms what many in #txed suspect about the the #staar, that it is an unnecessary and costly hindrance, and also declares that the thing parents most need to be freed from are the rules that #txlege and @teainfo now require of schools
8/8 If you want to read more about #sb8, then check out this comprehensive mega-thread on the bill
https://twitter.com/TroyMooney/status/1638137788599025675
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