New Mexico educators: Form rank-and-file safety committees to close schools and save lives!
The Texas Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee calls on teachers, school workers, parents and their families in New Mexico to build committees in your districts to defend the lives, livelihoods and rights of educators, students and communities.
The actions of governors and governments throughout the Southwest region during the COVID-19 pandemic have prioritized profit over the lives of residents, and New Mexico is no exception.
Kindergarten teacher at Southside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas on August 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Near the end of the spring of 2020, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham decided to end her shelter-in-place order so as to begin priming the pump for her fall economic reopening plans. Another Democratic Party politician, Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller, proclaimed a May 15 summer school reopening as the city reached 5,500 COVID-19 case
Texas educators call for full investigation of fascistic coup plotters!
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The Texas Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee calls on educators and other workers to create and join rank-and-file committees across the United States in preparation for a general political strike to remove and investigate all of the coup plotters involved in the January 6 coup attempt, which was planned in advance and coordinated by Republican officials as well as fascist sympathizers within the military-intelligence apparatus and police.
Texas politicians played a central role in the lead-up to Trump’s attempted coup. They must be exposed and held accountable for their assault on the democratic rights of the working class.
Texas educators call for united struggle in defense of whistleblower Rebekah Jones
This statement calls for the unity of educators in Florida, Texas and across the US in defense of COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones. It outlines the necessary program to close schools and nonessential workplaces, in order to stop the spread of the pandemic and save lives. We urge all those who want to join this struggle to
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We, the Texas Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee, condemn the fascistic police raid on the home of COVID-19 whistleblower and data scientist Rebekah Jones that took place last week in Florida.
Rebekah Jones (Screenshot: CBS Local)
Texas educators demand halt to in-person state standardized testing
Last week, the state of Texas sent tens of thousands of students to schools in order to take the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) test, a standardized annual exam. The Texas Education Agency plans to send students back to take STAAR tests in April and May, when even by optimistic estimates children and young adults will likely still be waiting to be vaccinated.
We, the Texas Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee, categorically oppose the plans for standardized testing in May and denounce the recent tests as a grave threat to the lives and well-being of Texas students, educators, and their families. A quick look at last year’s STAAR English I and II examinations reveals the extent of the health danger; in 2019 over 200,000 pupils took the exams, with over 460,000 taking them in May.