We Believe

• Nothing is more important to the future of children, our state, and our nation than providing a quality education to every child in Texas.

• We define a quality education as preparing all children to have the freedom to do in this world what they want to do.

• For most of our children, successfully completing some form of higher education is required to have the freedom to do what they want to do.

• Results for low income children should be no different than middle and upper income children.

• Independent school districts and charter school systems in the same geographic areas should work together whenever possible in the best interest of students as a system of public schools.

• Public school students deserve the best teachers. Teachers deserve to be adequately trained, paid and supported.

• A public school system should be responsive to the various needs in its community, and choices in the system of public schools should be known, understood, encouraged and increased.

• Local public school leaders need flexibility from state-controlled policies to innovate and to best serve their students.

• Every Texas child should be guaranteed adequate and equitable funding, no matter which public school parents and families choose.

• In a diverse and vast system serving 5 million students, there is no single policy or proposal that can improve education for every Texas child. Bottom up solutions are better than top down.