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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Thousands of Texans say "NO" to underfunding & testing


Walker Report file copy of protests when the legislature cuts funding
the last session
 A crowd of more than 12,000 teachers, students, families and community leaders
converged on the State Capitol today to tell lawmakers to fix a broken testing system
and return billions of dollars in education funding cut by the 2011 legislature
“The legislature is failing our children by refusing to restore the $5.4 billion that was
taken from our students last legislative session,” said Senator Kirk Watson. “It’s past
time to talk about the kids.

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