In Texas, House Democrats vote to kill a bill to develop a statewide Achievement School District for underperforming schools due to pressure from the teachers’ union.
There is a lot of finger-pointing going on about who is to blame for killing this bill, but the bill’s author, State Rep. Harold Dutton (D-Houston), kept his pointed within the Party.
He had this to say about the bill’s derailment:
“My friend’s enemy is not my friend, and Democrats should be the best friend of children in failing inner city schools. And if anybody — including the teachers’ union — places their interests above these children, Democrats should not just say no to them – they should say hell, no.”