Recently in Texas Category

Courtesy of MSNBC: The Arlington Independent School District, which passed on airing President Barack Obama's live classroom address, has announced that some students will be bussed off campus to hear a message from former President George W. Bush on Sept. 21. Folks, I don't really know how to comment on this without my head exploding.  I'll just make the following statement:  Bull Shit. ...

In this smoking gun curriculum document from the Texas Education Agency, proof positive is found that the Texas Education Agency (TEA) is indoctrinating our children.  Each day they are required to recite the following oaths of allegiance to the United States of America and to the State of Texas. The oaths of "Allegiance" are as follows: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic, for which...

This past summer, the legislature had a choice to make in education. Those of us that coached UIL sports wanted the legislature to approve a switch allowing districts to give credit to athletes in all eight semesters of high school. Currently, students are only required to take three semesters of physical education. Instead, the state upped the requirements for science and math so that students have take both all four years of high school. As...

None of my colleagues has addressed this yet and I thought I would do it this way because I am supposed to be the education blogger and because when we criticize one of our own we get a little street cred. Unfortunately, that would assume that I didn't have an axe to grind when the truth is that I have never liked Sheila Jackson Lee. She seems a little too much on the self-promoter side...

According to WRAL News, a North Carolina news outfit, John Edwards is expected to admit he is the father of the 18 month old daughter of his former mistress, Reille Hunter.  Poor Elizabeth. Interesting quote from Edwards about the Clinton/Lewinsky affair in 1999:  "I think this President has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of leadership, for his friends, for his wife, for his precious daughter. It is breathtaking to...

According to a tweet by Representative John Culberson, I am against health care reform. So are you, if you live in his district. "Everywhere I go everyone I meet in my district are strongly opposed - as I am - to gov't takeover of health care & the energy cap & tax bill" I'll overlook the fact that no one has proposed a government take over of health care, I'm sure it was just...

Texas has been getting an abundance of bad press lately, (and deservedly so, I might add) what with our illustrious governor threatening secession from the Union, as well as rejecting needed stimulus funds for unemployed Texans, and with 5 of the 9 House co-sponsors of the ridiculous "Birther Bill" being from Texas. So when a member of Congress from my home state does something to make us proud, I think it deserves recognition. I'm talking...