Texas Observer: Parents, Teachers, Students Rally for More School Funding and Less Testing

Photo by Beth Cortez-Neavel

Written for The Texas Observer legislative blog "Floor Pass."

More than 10,000 parents, teachers, students and education advocates from all over Texas filled the Capitol South lawn Saturday for the third annual Save Texas Schools rally, urging lawmakers to scale back standardized testing and spend more state money on public schools. Rally-goers began by marching seven blocks up Congress Avenue to the Capitol, carrying signs like, “WTF? Where is the Funding,” ”Dumbledore would not give us the STAAR test,” and “¡Salvemos a Las Escuelas de Texas!” (“Save Texas Schools!”). Read the rest.

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