State Sen. Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe, who authored the Texas Senate’s education package, including Texas’ first school choice bill, is countering a claim made by Texas AFT that public schools remain underfunded.
Texas AFT called on the Texas Senate, including Creighton, to pass a House public school funding bill claiming, “educators and staff across the state have been laid off, campuses have been closed and consolidated, and deep budget cuts threatened extracurriculars, academic programs, and the support staff who helped the whole student thrive.”
“State leadership has spent the last two sessions picking winners and losers in education policy, and somehow neighborhood schools never come out on top. I can’t stress this enough: Texas public schools are facing an existential crisis, and we need lawmakers to move with a real sense of urgency,” Texas AFT president Zeph Capo said.
Texas AFT is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers and the AFL-CIO and represents all non-administrative certified and classified public school employees in Texas.
