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Saturday, March 18, 2023

Texas officials on Wednesday announced a state takeover of Houston's nearly 200,000-student public school district, the eighth-largest in the country, acting on years of threats and angering Democrats who assailed the move as political.

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This is the GOP's new playbook. If they don't like something they just remove local control and local officials. They are trying to remove the elected circuit attorney in St Louis and place city police under state control. They are trying to give themselves the power to do the same with local elected officials in Georgia.

The GOP tried to overthrow the Constitution in 2020 and now they are trying to do the same with other elections. They hate democracy.

#1 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2023-03-17 09:48 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

They care about parental choice they AGREE with.

Kind of like how Jeff cares about Free Speech.

#2 | Posted by Sycophant at 2023-03-17 10:13 AM | Reply

The GOP tried to overthrow the Constitution in 2020 and now they are trying to do the same with other elections. They hate democracy.

Broadly, it's their same playbook.

When they began to fail to win nationally with any consistency they went after state and local offices then the judiciary.

Now that they can't control state and local and they control the judiciary, they're going after state and local.

I'm sure Jeffy will be along shortly to speak forcefully against this.

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2023-03-17 02:22 PM | Reply

"Don't worry, Houston, TX, everything works out great when a republican administration installs unelected and unaccountable people to run things."

-- Flint, MI

#4 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2023-03-17 05:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Self school

#5 | Posted by fresno500 at 2023-03-19 12:25 AM | Reply

Good gawd these comments are hilarious, I have a lifelong friend who works in Houston ISD who is applauding this move bc of the exact mismanagement that has gone on for years. The only people who are complaining are the ones who ram the school district into the ground.

Oh and my friend is a Democrat.

#6 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2023-03-19 05:13 AM | Reply

#6
"Friends" fit for specific rhetorical purpose are ... not particularly effective.

#7 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2023-03-19 07:40 AM | Reply

Oh and my friend is a Democrat.

#6 | POSTED BY BLUEWAFFLES

Oh and my friend is a Democrat. But he' not that big a fanboy of Democracy and actual election results.

There, BLUEWAFFLES ...FTFY

#8 | Posted by oldwhiskeysour at 2023-03-19 09:37 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I have a lifelong friend who's a transsexual, pan national, irrational person of AfroAsiMongoArachnoid descent who ... No, wait. Silly me. Wrong thread.

#9 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2023-03-19 09:42 AM | Reply | Funny: 2

#6 | POSTED BY BLUEWAFFLES

Is this friend a relative or many just also an acquaintance of the many Canadians that I'm sure you know who come to the US for healthcare because they just like to pay bills?

#10 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2023-03-19 10:01 AM | Reply

Get ready for kids to learn that evolution is just an opinion.

#11 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2023-03-19 01:48 PM | Reply

evolution is just an option.

#12 | Posted by orgasmdonor at 2023-03-19 01:55 PM | Reply | Funny: 3

Local school control results in unfairness, the larger community should be involved.
The larger community should leave alone the local schools.
we need to find that lowest common denominator to solve this equation, don't we?

#13 | Posted by orgasmdonor at 2023-03-19 02:01 PM | Reply

Darwin's 'evolution' :-)
Darwin's
genius.com :-(

#14 | Posted by orgasmdonor at 2023-03-19 02:08 PM | Reply

evolution is just an option.

#12 | Posted by orgasmdonor

We already know you're a moron. You don't need to keep proving it.

#15 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2023-03-19 04:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Texas will run Houston schools like they run the power grid.

#16 | Posted by Sycophant at 2023-03-20 12:55 AM | Reply

Good gawd these comments are hilarious, I have a lifelong friend who works in Houston ISD who is applauding this move bc of the exact mismanagement that has gone on for years. The only people who are complaining are the ones who ram the school district into the ground.
Oh and my friend is a Democrat.

#6 | POSTED BY BLUEWAFFLES AT 2023-03-19 05:13 AM | REPLY

It was 1 school used to seize the district.

The school is in one of, if not the most, poor area of Houston.

The school passed the state requirements shortly after the deadline it had to do so.

The state is still seizing the district. They have no ideas outside of archaic standardized testing.

#17 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2023-03-20 07:27 AM | Reply

Not cynical enough for a Monday morning just saying what happened.

Here's what comes next:

The City of Houston already voted to build green spaces and amenities for these poor areas. Once those are in the areas will gentrify and turn white. The residents sell and move to the burbs with the schools that all have natatoriums as Houston has a very competitive swimming culture baked into it when pools with racing lanes were built into all the emerging suburbs starting 50 years ago and the trend still continues today. The grades and funding in the gentrified area ends up goes way up. The State will declare victory at some point and spike the football for things they had nothing to do with.

#18 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2023-03-20 08:14 AM | Reply

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