Abbott has criscrossed Texas for months blasting school curricula as liberal indoctrination and vowing to give parents more options.
While the timing is somewhat coincidental because it was delayed by years of legal and legislative battles, the TEA’s move comes as Abbott, a Republican, is expending significant political capital on a list of education reforms.
“We must reform curriculum, get kids back to the basics of learning, and we must empower parents,” Abbott said last month in his State of the State address, a theme he's carried through more than a half dozen speeches around the state since. years-long battle with Houston and Harris County on a wide range of political issues, said Mark P. Jones, a professor in the Department of Political Science at Rice University.For as much as Republicans in Texas like to promote themselves as conservative leaders, they’ve been behind other GOP-dominated states on issues such as attacking liberal themes in classrooms and enacting school vouchers.
On the other hand, state Rep. Harold Dutton, D-Houston, who wrote legislation that allows TEA to take over failing school districts, says the state has the right to step in after years of HISD's struggles to improve conditions at Wheatley High School, the school whose long-term academic woes triggered the TEA takeover effort.
“The problem is that the focus of the management team is not on the education of kids,” Bettencourt said.
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