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James Quintero retweeted
Promises made, promises broken - and it’s barely been a week. None of this will help make anything more affordable for Texans. And a few of them will result in higher prices, less choice, and less access.
James Quintero retweeted
Many TEFA parents are rising up to say: Fund public schools AND give families choice. #txlege
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For the kids in the back:
- Taxpayer-funded lobbying = my money, your agenda.
- A tax exemption = my money, my agenda.
The first is immoral and corrupt. The second is lawful and charitable. #txlege @TPPF
In my defense, no Member has ever so oddly confused taxpayer-funded lobbying and a tax exemption. It was bizarre. #txlege
In my defense, no Member has ever so oddly confused taxpayer-funded lobbying and a tax exemption. It was bizarre. #txlege
James Quintero retweeted
Inflation-adjusted public school spending per student in the U.S.
1970: $8,028
1980: $10,197
1990: $13,879
2000: $16,122
2010: $19,110
2023: $21,876
172% real increase since 1970.
James Quintero retweeted
The city of Austin also loves to give money to American Gateways.
Source: austintexas.legistar.com/Leg…
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While the escalation in home prices is not due to any single factor, one cause appears more responsible than the others: poor public policy. texaspolicy.com/affordabilit…
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63% blasted leadership. Leander ISD kept it secret.
Leander ISD hired an outside firm to review its brand-new police department after two former officers complained in May. The report came back in mid-July.
What it found: 63% of staff described leadership as "non-existent," "ineffective," "awful" or "incompetent." About 45% called the culture "dysfunctional" or "hostile," and at least six used the word "toxic." Staff said they lacked regular CPR, Stop the Bleed and active-shooter training. The reviewers called two sergeants' on-camera conduct with a co-worker "unprofessional, especially from those holding leadership positions." Both still work there.
Parents never saw any of it. Leander ISD tried to withhold the report. The Texas Attorney General ruled in early October that it "must release" it. The district handed it over about three weeks later, the same day KXAN said it was airing a story about the delay.
This is the same department where a state audit found 381 of 480 applicant files were never opened.
These are the people protecting our kids.
What are they thinking?
Parents deserve the truth the day a district gets it. Not after the AG forces it out.
Theodore Schramm | theodoretx.com
#TX136 #traviscountytx #Williamsoncountytx #LeanderISD #LeanderTx
James Quintero retweeted
Travis county approved $500k for immigrant legal aid with American Gateways yesterday
The judge said they have been giving to American gateways for a while but decided to keep quiet about it because they didn’t want to get sued by Ken Paxton
But that changed last week and now they are increasing the funding
James Quintero retweeted
Government Regulation Adds $131,734 To The Price Of A New Home
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Austin is on track to pay over $4 million to an NGO whose strategic plan demands the city “follow through on its formal apology to the Black community with action.”
Government grants make up about two-thirds of Six Square’s revenue. The first goal the city lists for its current contract is keeping Six Square in existence.
What Six Square has put on:
- "Black Minds Matter," a virtual meditation series with Black therapists and "healing practitioners"
- "Beyond the Square," the Big Freedia festival
- "Stay Black and Live," a festival with a "Free Your Mind Symposium Series"
- Grocery deliveries to artists
Its strategic plan calls on the city to "follow through on its formal apology to the Black and African-American community with action," and says "true repair and reconciliation requires sustained investment, policy change, and community-led decision-making."
Austin has paid Six Square $2.87 million since 2017. Its current contract allows up to $1.2 million more through 2030.
The city also subsidizes the group tens of thousands of dollars a year by renting it office space on East 11th Street for $100 a year.
James Quintero retweeted
🧵 Still waiting on data but in Texas it looks like about 75% of Voter Approved Tax Rate Elections (VATRE) failed, and nearly all major school bond proposals failed.
Here's a few of the larger school bond packages that voters rejected:
James Quintero retweeted
Clearly, overregulation and over-taxation are making the housing market worse from a consumer perspective; but the affordability problems caused by these two policy areas aren’t unsolvable. In fact, quite the opposite. #txlege texaspolicy.com/affordabilit…
James Quintero retweeted
Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa’s proposed electricity rate freeze makes no sense. It didn’t work in New Jersey. It won’t work in Texas.
The costs are still there. They’re not going away. It’s just a marketing gimmick to make people feel like they’re saving money when they aren’t.
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City of Austin gives the Austin Film Society two massive handouts:
1. $22 million in cash
2. City property worth at least $29.8 million, for just $100 a year in rent
The Film Society then rents that property to film and TV productions and collects millions in rent.
Next week, the City Council votes on giving it $1.2 million more.
The Film Society says its mission includes “actively dismantle the structural racism, sexism and other bias in the screen industries.”
It has $10.9 million in net assets.
