It’s Still Christmas Holly

@hollyshansen

Writer, conservative reformer, medieval history buff. Passionate about quality education & Ed choice. Twitter is terrible but it does make me laugh. Sometimes.

Houston, Texas
Joined March 2009

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  1. 30 Dec 2018

    "If you want to see the poor remain poor, generation after generation, just keep the standards low in their schools and make excuses for their academic shortcomings and personal misbehavior. But please don't congratulate yourself on your compassion."

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  2. There’s so much misinformation about my property tax reform. Contrary to this headline the reform REQUIRES the state to provide more school funding. Additionally our school finance reform adds school funding to improve student success.

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  3. 15 hours ago

    . once said the problem with is "[w]e presume the tax dollars that fund a child’s education belong to the public school district and the child belongs in a public school seat." Learn what happened in the last post of his latest series:

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  4. “We asked respondents to discuss what they viewed as the purpose of a ‘good education,’” Echelon wrote, but “across all of our focus groups, there was little consensus around any particular answer.”

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  5. 17 hours ago

    Incredibly honored to be working with this session to advance local liberty. The 2019 session is going to be one for the record books!!!

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  6. 19 hours ago

    Hey NCEE, how I can help "contribute to global knowledge generation and mobilization" and "design learning systems for the Third Industrial Age - an artificial intelligence (AI) future in which human-centered learning will be crucial to our sustainability"?

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  7. 19 hours ago

    Big time breaking news -- and good news for those who believe Florida's increasingly choice-driven education system has been on the right track for the past two decades.

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  8. This. "If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." — Madison

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  9. I actually enjoyed the dancing: great throwback to the era in which we took “Americanism vs Communism” in high school & learned about the realities of socialism & why it’s untenable.

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  13. Jan 3

    Want lower property taxes? Me, too! should start by prioritizing taxpayers in budget decisions across state instead of spending our $ on govt favoritism, which is . Need to .

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  14. Significant numbers of students are testing below grade level- answers I’ve seen: -stop testing them -start school at age 4 I’m very confused. For one thing, how does PreK help the students already in the system & not learning? Are we just giving up on them?

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  15. The Texas Education Challenge: “over 50% of Texas high school graduates require remedial courses when entering a community college.”

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  16. Well I guess I am back to having no followers. Thanks Ethics Rules.

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  17. Jan 3

    School Finance Reform & Property Tax Reform definitely will be top priorities. We will also begin dismantling the flawed Robin Hood scheme that has failed our schools.

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  18. Jan 3
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  19. Wow! A massive Jobs number just released. 2018 ended with a bang, 312,000 jobs created vs 184,000 expected. Wages up too, labor force participation rose, previous months revised up. Growth, optimism, opportunity. Let’s do this...

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  20. “We are the poem as we read it, as the words, the images, and the rhythms pervade and become our being;” ❤️

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