First McLeroy and then Gail Lowe after the Senate failed to approve McLeroy for another term. No one is to blame but Perry, for those choices. They are his hand picked people who have made the board a national laughing stock. And the divisiveness on the board is stoked by both of these people. These are Perry's blow-back appointments.
"Help me tell the rest of the nation that Texas is better than some of the actions taken by our State Board of Education," White said in urging teachers to support him at the annual convention of the Texas State Teachers Association. The association has endorsed White in the governor's race.
"We can't afford to go backward in education."
Social conservatives on the board contend they are representing the majority of Texans in writing the standards.
White also blamed Perry for record college tuition increases during his tenure. Those increases occurred after Republican leaders decided to deregulate tuition to ease a state revenue crunch in 2003.
"We will never be as good as we can be if college tuition goes up by 82 percent as it has under Governor Perry over the last six years," he said, arguing that tuition rates are now beyond the reach of many families.
Perry is moving this state backward on education - no doubt about that. :mad:
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