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Texans, we have a problem with WASTE, CORRUPTION and ABUSE in public schools? @ltisdschools spent taxpayer resources to try and hide how much they spent on outside counsel to battle parents over TRANSPARENCY issues. After 5 months the @TXAG ruled in our favor and Lake Travis ISD was forced to hand over public records showing they used our tax dollars to the tune of $115K to "out lawyer" us in @teainfo appeals (1 record they tried to withhold is attached below). We wanted transparency and for the people violating school policy and law to be held accountable and removed from our payroll. Sadly, in Texas, school districts can and do use our money to hide the truth. @txcomptroller where you at? We filed an appeal (within the time frame) and included receipts proving our allegations. We thought including exhibits/receipts would help people follow along, saving time and money. We are not attorneys, but this seemed logical as it is public information. Lake Travis ISD paid several attorneys to file motions to dismiss and objecting to our exhibits (a few are below). They paid for a motion to dismiss our appeal claiming we did not file in time, completely absurd as it was not factual (wasted money). The included exhibits proved our allegations and were obtained lawfully via open records requests, but our money was spent to remove them from the record. Why are we forced to fund this? @GovAbbottPress @GregAbbott_TX @texasgov @TXsecofstate Do your job @MikeMorath @TxEdHouston @TexasEd911 @drbone4tx @SarahisCensored @lifelife89 @NicolePearsonJD @KenPaxtonTX @TrueTexasTea @MaryDunlaphome @TexasObserver @FamilyProjectTX @MC4Texas @_TeddyBrosevelt @iFightForKids @IamtheGlitch_TX @texas @SenTedCruz @JohnCornyn @txst @POTUS @IRStaxpros @FBI @suphannahrucker @amilynne87 @impactnews do you want the story now?

Fredericksburg ISD voters will soon decide on a $160M bond for a new high school and campus upgrades—but with interest, taxpayers could pay nearly $339M. texasscorecard.com/local/fre…

Elon Musk thinks the entire education system is built on a broken assumption. That every student should learn the same thing. At the same speed. In the same order. At the same time. Musk: “Everyone goes through from like 5th grade to 6th grade to 7th grade like it’s an assembly line. But people are not objects on an assembly line.” The model was designed for a factory economy. Standardized inputs. Predictable outputs. That economy is gone. The assembly line is gone. But the education system still runs on its logic. A student who masters algebra in two weeks sits through eight more weeks because the calendar says so. A student who struggles gets dragged forward because the schedule doesn’t wait. Neither is being served. Both are being processed. Musk: “Allow people to progress at the fastest pace that they can or are interested in, in each subject.” AI doesn’t teach a classroom. It teaches a student. One at a time. Every time. It skips what a student already knows. It finds where they’re stuck and approaches it from a different angle. It adjusts in real time. Not at the end of a semester when the damage is already done. A student obsessed with basketball learns fractions through shooting percentages. A student who builds in Minecraft learns geometry through architecture. The subject doesn’t change. The entry point does. No teacher with thirty students can do this. Not because they lack skill. Because the math doesn’t work. AI doesn’t have that constraint. Musk: “You do not need to tell your kid to play video games. They will play video games on autopilot all day. So if you can make it interactive and engaging, then you can make education far more compelling.” The brain isn’t broken. The format is. Kids learn complex systems and strategic thinking for hours voluntarily. Then walk into a classroom and can’t focus for twenty minutes. That’s not a discipline problem. That’s a design problem. Musk: “A university education is often unnecessary. You probably learn the vast majority of what you’re going to learn there in the first two years. And most of it is from your classmates.” Four years. Six figures of debt. And the real value comes from the people sitting next to you. Not the institution charging you. The degree doesn’t certify knowledge. It certifies endurance. Musk: “If the goal is to start a company, I would say no point in finishing college.” The system was built to train employees. If you’re not trying to be one, it has nothing left to offer you. Every lecture. Every textbook. Every curriculum. Now available instantly. Personalized to any learner. Adapted to any pace. The question isn’t whether the old model survives. It’s how long we keep forcing students through it while the replacement already exists.

@MichaelBerrySho @drbone4tx @Ryanexpress77 @TEA @libsoftiktok I don’t ever want to hear Schools in Texas are underfunded again when you see this ridiculousness. Klein ISD is broken on so many levels and this amount per year for kids is wasted on this embarrassing failure.

@AustinISD budget has ⬆️ 35% over the same period that student enrollment has ⬇️ 17%. Excessive spending & poor budgeting is why AISD is in this hole #txlege