Certainly folks are appearing to be more cordial. |
Education is ground zero. It's in play in an unprecedented number of primary races. A lot of that is in response to what hasn't happened. |
Folks ... are not happy that there's a disconnect between where the leadership wants to go and where the general public is on education issues. |
Most of the people of the public education community felt we had a Public Education chair who didn't have a lot of respect for public education employees. |
Public education is probably already the most transparent and accountable of any government system. When do we start talking about resources? |
Texas public education definitely doesn't have numbers they can brag about. We can only get so far with the resources that we have. It's simple - teachers are getting involved because they are mad. Really, really mad. |
We believe Carole has the best chance of winning in November. She has the money in her campaign, she has the background and she has the best stance on the issues. |
We work to elect candidates that believe we have something to offer to the process. |
We're increasing our state of readiness and getting our folks in a position to respond quickly. Everyone's going to be real busy with final exams and end-of-year activity, but we'll be making sure folks stay focused. |
What we are saying to them is, 'Let's do it right,'. |