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Issue Position: Strengthening Our Public Schools

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2012
Issues: Education

Funding
Rick Perry and Tea Party Republicans cut public education funding by more than $5 billion last year -- a staggering cut that harms millions of school children across Texas. Chris Turner will fight to reverse the Republican education cuts that have resulted in teacher layoffs and larger class sizes across Texas.

Chris believes education funding was already inadequate and that Perry and the Legislature should have used the billions of dollars in the state's Rainy Day Fund and closed tax loopholes in order to save schools from devastating cuts.

Chris will fight for a more fair and better financed public education system for all Texas children.

Teaching to the test
Chris also believes we must reform the school accountability system that has become entirely too dependent on standardized tests. There is entirely too much "teaching to the test" in Texas and we need to lessen the emphasis on standardized testing in the classroom.


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