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May 8, 2019
3 min

Open Letter to Governor Abbott

An open letter to Governor Abbott: Your appointee for Education Commissioner, Mike Morath, has consistently failed to perform the duties ...

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Troy Reynolds

Nov 26, 2018
2 min

How to Lower Property Taxes

HOW TO LOWER PROPERTY TAXES: Right now, ISD School Boards are powerless to lower tax rates because every time revenue increases from high...

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Troy Reynolds

Nov 19, 2018
5 min

Education as a Business Model

This is a speech which began it s rounds at the Education Forum in Arlington. For the last 40 years or so, there has been an ongoing phil...

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Troy Reynolds

Nov 19, 2018
4 min

Houston Rally 2018

Texas AFT invited us to attend a rally at Discovery Green. This was the speech given on behalf of Texans for Public Education at the ral...

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Troy Reynolds

Nov 19, 2018
4 min

Austin Rally 2017

This is the text from our very first rally. We had 2000 teachers show up on the steps of t he state capitol to protest the fact that edu...

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Troy Reynolds

Nov 19, 2018
1 min

Always Growing

In the theme of using every tool available to fight for public education, I"m creating a new blog here on the website to which you can su...

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