Every Friday we will round up some of our favorite doozies, curveballs, gaffes, head scratchers, political glossolalia and goofball statements. Our only criteria is that the quote provokes a “WTF” reaction. TGI…WTF?
Let us join Dan, David, Jerry and Todd as they give life to what Freud called the “narcissism of small differences.”
The year’s hottest education debate centered on an unlikely subject: CSCOPE, the once-obscure curriculum program built for Texas schools that’s been targeted for destruction by tea party activists.
Before its life as a tea party bugaboo and a campaign punching bag, CSCOPE was just another program keeping Texas’ schools running.
State Board of Education member Thomas Ratliff has emerged as CSCOPE’s most outspoken defender at the state level—one of the very few elected officials willing to wade into tea party waters and pick a fight.
Just in time for the lieutenant governor’s race, politicians are blustering over a fresh wave of CSCOPE outrage: the much-maligned lessons may now be free for any teacher to use.
Texas Lt. Governor David Dewhurst is facing three Republican challengers, three conservative white men each with his own brand of whacky.
Lost in the dramatic events of Friday’s showdown over the anti-abortion bill was a remarkable speech by Sen. Dan Patrick, a full-throated declaration of God’s wishes for the Texas Legislature.
At the Capitol this morning, Sen. Dan Patrick made a surprise announcement: “The era of CSCOPE lesson plans has come to an end.”
Each of the last two sessions, House members shot down the Senate’s proposals for raising Texas’ cap on charter schools—but a vote this afternoon put an end to the curse, as the House approved Senate Bill 2.