Mrs Ra making education a priority

On a special presentation of the Non-Prophets radio show, YouTubers AronRa, LilandraX, and HealthyAddict join host Matt Dillahunty to discuss the massive "Save-Our-Schools" teachers' rally on the steps of Texas state capitol in Austin on 03/12/2011.

To hear the entire unedited show on the Non-Prophets:
http://www.nonprophetsradio.com/audio/The%20Non-Prophets%2010.6.mp3

Three ways you can help Save Texas Schools:
http://savetxschools.org/2011/03/three-things-card/

Florence Shapiro about implementing the new STAAR testing at a price of a half-billion dollars, when the state has a 9.8 billion-dollar shortfall:
http://www.texastribune.org/texas-education/texas-education-agency/budget-cut...

Superintendent Kuhns' outraged letter to legislators about the urgent need of sending assistance to Texas' schools rather than ramping up more testing bureaucracy.




http://m.timesrecordnews.com/news/2011/feb/20/educator-remembers-the-alamo/

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Education

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• Austin
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• HealthyAddict
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• Dillahunty
• AronRa
• LilandraX
• Texas
• education
• budget
• deficit
• cuts
• billion
• public
• schools
• teachers
• Rick
• Perry
• save
• keep
• smart
• SOS

[C0ct0pusPrime]

New rules: politician's kids have to attend public school, they have to live in the closest house to any local nuclear plants, they have to buy their own health insurance if they bitch about government sponsored health care, and they should get paid the national average income or less...also, after they leave office, no plush jobs for corporations they were in bed with while in office.

that should take care of a few problems right there...

[MsMommaRose]

Tax the churches.

[Abbadon380]

@Kamidake83 americans are screwed if he does get voted into office .

[kaduisaui]

They get what they pay for, they are getting what they want. This has been planned a long time ago. Our Government knows stupid people make good slaves.

[Sanquinity]

How are people not noticing this? I mean Education is incredibly important, yet America seems to insist on destroying it more and more. I wouldn't be surprised if in 5 years the lower half of America (income wise) doesn't send their kids to school any more because it's impossible. Which will in turn mean America becoming more like the 'terrorist' countries it so seems to hate.

[zeldaofarel]

I have a degree in TEFL. In Hungary, I didn't become a teacher because the work is insane, the pay is awful and the number of jobs is low compared to the number of teaching graduates. All in all, the struggle was just not worth it and I went into IT, because there were actual jobs in the field. Also, I can't teach in foreign countries, because they want native teachers, who do 6 months courses. I'm apparently inferior with my 5 years of training.

[Kamidake83]

And Rick Perry intends to run for President?

[Heyprinny]

@TheSkunkCat Yeah. Too bad not enough people in Texas are intelligent enough to vote for you. Aron Ra is pretty much one of the few shining diamond of intelligence in the swamp known as the Lone Star State.

[bunchofdaisies]

Texas is fucked...... yeeehhhaaawwww

[LilandraX]

Blame the First"The only way more funding will work is if it goes to reforming the system. If it merely supports the status quo, then funding is worthless."

No one in Texas is asking for more funding. They are simply asking to match they already inadequate funding that is required by state law. Not only are they cutting by 4 Billion. (This has thankfully changed from the original 10 Billion) They are not funding the 180,000 new students to Texas during this budget biennium.

[BlameTheFirst]

@LilandraX The only way more funding will work is if it goes to reforming the system. If it merely supports the status quo, then funding is worthless.