Abbott selects DISD trustee Mike Morath as Texas’ new education commissioner

[TexasTowelie]

AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday appointed Dallas Independent School District Trustee Mike Morath to be Texas’ next education commissioner.

Abbott said Morath has been a “change agent” during his four years on the Dallas school board, and will bring an innovative spirit to the job of commissioner, where he will oversee the Texas Education Agency and the state’s more than 1,200 school districts and charter schools.

“The state of Texas is exceptional, and our education system must be too,” Abbott said in a statement. “A proven education reformer, Mike Morath will not accept the status quo in our schools. He is committed to innovative solutions that will empower Texas principals, teachers and students to strive for the highest in education excellence.”

Noting that Morath has led mountain-climbing treks at some of the earth’s tallest peaks, the Republican governor said the Dallas businessman now will “help Texas education reach new heights.”

Read more: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/12/abbott-selects-disd-trustee-mike-morath-as-texas-new-education-commissioner.html/

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1. Seems like Morath and the Mayor of Dallas were engaged in privatizing Dallas ISD a couple

of years ago through a Home Rule scam.

Is Dan Patrick going to get the Texas Legislature to actually go through with Vouchers? Privatizing taxpayer money in to private school is not agreeable even to conservative Texans.

Perhaps Texas is Blueing on the horizon.

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2. Abbott appoints a very objectionable Privatizer-Profiteer to serve as a Public Education Officer.

https://tcta.org/node/13812-home_rule_could_dismantle_dallas_isd
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So here’s hoping that Dallas voters, whatever issues they may have with the traditional system of public schools, decide to address those issues within the existing infrastructure rather than by dismantling a system that allows the active and ongoing participation of the parents and public it serves.


So here's hoping that Texas voters keep and strengthen their neighborhood public schools. A community comes together for Texas Friday Night Football, which a Charter cannot afford.

A Home-Rule Charter is a business that is not under Texas Education Code protective laws.