The Texas Association of School Boards is a machine that fights for higher property tax, DEI, and “trans rights,” and fights against school choice — all with taxpayer money. Here’s how to turn it off.
Please continue to bring this type of corruption to the public’s attention. The public education system in general does nothing to lead young people toward productive lives and careers.
And incredibly, this is happening in Texas! So you can only imagine the extent of the grift in blue states CA/NY/IL. I am currently battling to save our local local TUHSD school board against a group of activist insurgents, who want to take control of the board and spend the district into oblivion. This isn’t that hard, but apparently they don’t teach Mancur Olson and public choice theory anymore. “Distributional coalitions,” as he called these special interests are designed to return concentrated benefits to a select group while the costs are widely dispersed among an unsuspecting population.
The Fall of America really escalated when Nixon removed the gold standard, I believe. The cost of living has continued to climb while those with friends in the right places have lined their pockets with dollar bills then and still printed with the stamp of the press. And there are people dying in the streets while the once white house has become an idol draped in gold. I am proof housing first works. I am proof that not all homeless are criminals and insane. I have looked into the eyes of the man I loved as he passed away and the world only saw a homeless man dead in the woods. I have had it all taken away when my camp was swept, even my financial aid was swept away. It was more than anyone should ever have to and never did I lay down to die too even though I wanted to. I rose to speak for those who are poor downtrodden and lame.
Joe, I started and run an educational Consortium in NJ that already does a lot of things on your list. We went head up against some of these forces to save taxpayer dollars. I would love to share some valuable lessons from the trenches...
This touches on multiple different elements of elements of the deep centralizations that have occurred in our system. These sorts of things were genuine bottom run cooperative horizontal information sharing structures between member elements (in this case school districts, which also have been greatly consolidated and shrunk in number while also losing locally directed autonomies) AND the centralization of finance (centralized direction over big community savings, in this case those insurance pools, which has big cumulative effects when consider all that has centralized within the country, from what cultural stuff gets funded, to what infrastructure gets funded and where, to what business investments happen, to science funding, and the way its that in each case most practitioners, from artists to business people to scientists to more get marginalized from decision making even in their own fields)
NH and other states have similar organizations and have the same goals. It is a powerful subset of the education industrial complex. I’ve long wondered why RICO doesn’t apply.
Joe, we once co-invested with our deer departed friend Matt. We met at Matt's house in San Diego. I'll never forget how kind you were to my son James who was 12 at the time.
I cannot tell you how spot-on you are with this blog. This is what I've been trying to do since I bought Grand Canyon University and took it public.
TASB has been the origin of almost every woke, anti-intellectual school policy.
Shut it down.
Please continue to bring this type of corruption to the public’s attention. The public education system in general does nothing to lead young people toward productive lives and careers.
And incredibly, this is happening in Texas! So you can only imagine the extent of the grift in blue states CA/NY/IL. I am currently battling to save our local local TUHSD school board against a group of activist insurgents, who want to take control of the board and spend the district into oblivion. This isn’t that hard, but apparently they don’t teach Mancur Olson and public choice theory anymore. “Distributional coalitions,” as he called these special interests are designed to return concentrated benefits to a select group while the costs are widely dispersed among an unsuspecting population.
Joe, you are the voice of common sense. I listen to your podcast regularly. Keep helping America recover from decades of political malfeasance
The Fall of America really escalated when Nixon removed the gold standard, I believe. The cost of living has continued to climb while those with friends in the right places have lined their pockets with dollar bills then and still printed with the stamp of the press. And there are people dying in the streets while the once white house has become an idol draped in gold. I am proof housing first works. I am proof that not all homeless are criminals and insane. I have looked into the eyes of the man I loved as he passed away and the world only saw a homeless man dead in the woods. I have had it all taken away when my camp was swept, even my financial aid was swept away. It was more than anyone should ever have to and never did I lay down to die too even though I wanted to. I rose to speak for those who are poor downtrodden and lame.
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Emma Lazarus
November 2, 1883
Joe, I started and run an educational Consortium in NJ that already does a lot of things on your list. We went head up against some of these forces to save taxpayer dollars. I would love to share some valuable lessons from the trenches...
This touches on multiple different elements of elements of the deep centralizations that have occurred in our system. These sorts of things were genuine bottom run cooperative horizontal information sharing structures between member elements (in this case school districts, which also have been greatly consolidated and shrunk in number while also losing locally directed autonomies) AND the centralization of finance (centralized direction over big community savings, in this case those insurance pools, which has big cumulative effects when consider all that has centralized within the country, from what cultural stuff gets funded, to what infrastructure gets funded and where, to what business investments happen, to science funding, and the way its that in each case most practitioners, from artists to business people to scientists to more get marginalized from decision making even in their own fields)
and thats just two bad things, there are more
NH and other states have similar organizations and have the same goals. It is a powerful subset of the education industrial complex. I’ve long wondered why RICO doesn’t apply.
Thank you, Joe, for removing crabgrass one weed at a time. Rational citizens applaud all that you are doing!
TASN is an extreme example but the growth of taxpayer-funded NGOs is a huge national problem.
Joe, we once co-invested with our deer departed friend Matt. We met at Matt's house in San Diego. I'll never forget how kind you were to my son James who was 12 at the time.
I cannot tell you how spot-on you are with this blog. This is what I've been trying to do since I bought Grand Canyon University and took it public.
Thank you for all you do. This is our passion now: www.amfaith.com. www.scusa.org.
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