Issue Position: Economy

Issue Position

The second idea of economy has several parts. First, we must follow the money--how it's being wasted, who's paying for candidates and why, and how education should support the economy and higher education. An eight-member majority of the fifteen-member board squanders millions of dollars on a weak curriculum, inadequate textbooks, and useless initiatives like abstinence-only education, which has been proven ineffective and even harmful. Some of these extremists don't even believe public education is constitutional, and they receive campaign funding from rich donors who want to undermine public schools in Texas and elsewhere around the country. We need a Texas State Board of Education that makes public schools an engine of the economy, coordinated with higher education and the real world of work and local communities.

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