Tom DeLay is a gift that keeps on giving, and has been for a long time.
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High-stakes testing has basically guided the curriculum in public schools all across the state of Texas and has left us with the highest drop out rate in the entire country -- around 40 percent.Chris Bell
I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.
Chris Bell
Obviously we are going to have to raise the money necessary to get the message out to the people of Texas. In order to win, we have to get Democrats to unite and support the Democratic candidate.
Chris Bell
The dropout figures reported by the school districts are a bit misleading they don't really touch on the attrition rate. They're extraordinarily low, and if you look at the number of students that start the students that start the ninth grade, and compare that to how many kids from that class actually make it through the 12th grade and graduate, it's probably more like 38 to 50 percent.
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This is why we need ethics reform now. Rick Perry is trying to sell a school finance plan that has no new money for schools, and he's raising corporate money to do it.
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I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas.
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