School Board Advocacy Network urges passage of Texas House Bill 5 without additional admendments

Friday, May 24, 2013

School Board Advocacy Network urges passage of Texas House Bill 5 without additional admendments

"House and Senate conferees are currently considering House Bill 5, which would reduce the number of end-of-course exams taken by high school students and provide multiple pathways to graduation.

"There is a possibility that HB 5 will be amended to include statewide school district legislation that failed in the House and was removed from another bill earlier this week.

Please contact the members of the HB 5 conference committee NOW and ask that the bill be kept "clean" of any additional legislation, especially Achievement School District legislation that would permit takeover of neighborhood schools by a statewide school district.

Urge conferees to:

NOT amend HB 5 with other bills that have failed to pass.

Keep the number of end-of-course exams at five tests.

Conference Committee Members (click on a name to send an e-mail)

House:

Chairman Jimmie Don Aycock (R-Killeen), 512-463-0684

Rep. Dan Huberty (R-Houston), 512-463-0520

Rep. Joe Deshotel (D-Beaumont), 512-463-0662

Rep. Larry Gonzales (R-Round Rock), 512-463-0670

Rep. Eddie Rodriguez (D-Austin), 512-463-0674

Senate:

Chairman Dan Patrick (R-Houston), 512-463-0107

Sen. Robert Duncan (R-Lubbock), 512-463-0128

Sen. Kel Seliger (R-Amarillo), 512-463-0131

Sen. Leticia Van de Putte (D-San Antonio), 512-463-0126

Sen. Tommy Williams (R-The Woodlands), 512-463-0104"

A Teacher's Creed

"In the classroom on the first day of a new school year, I am eager to meet my students. I have rehearsed my greeting and first day’s remarks, but no matter how many years I’ve prepared for this procedure, it’s always new. My heart pumps a bit harder, faster; I feel adrenaline like an athlete, or like an actor, or maybe like a novice public speaker. It’s a marvelous feeling, this first day, because I know that something special is going to happen, and I know it because I’ve experienced it before and I know that I will experience it every time I meet a new class throughout my venerable career. And then they’re seated before me and I smile at this special feeling. This is an assembly of students, yes. But there’s so much more, because each of these young persons is more than just a student entrusted to me. Each of these students has a story to tell, a lifetime, however brief, of experiences, a history in volumes whose richness and depth I can barely begin to fathom. And so as I absorb the first glimpse of these young charges, I must appreciate the extent of my responsibility, of the privilege I’ve accepted in presenting these young souls my special knowledge. In offering them my talent and passion, I am adding an enormous array of new bright stars to the vast firmament of their minds, stars that will never have time to fade in their lifetimes. I will be part of their story. And I know that each of them will always be part of mine. And that’s a good feeling, a feeling that is perpetually renewed, revisited, and rewritten in A Teacher’s Creed."

Carla Ranger - Dallas ISD Education Blog

Friday, May 24, 2013

School Board Advocacy Network urges passage of Texas House Bill 5 without additional admendments

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