Teachers in other states are striking. Texas teachers can't do that.

Source: Texas Tribune

Texas statute says any employees who "strike or engage in an organized work stoppage against the state or a political subdivision of the state" will lose all their "civil service rights, reemployment rights, and any other rights, benefits, and privileges the employee enjoys as a result of public employment or former public employment."

That’s us -- we’re state employees and community colleges are “political subdivisions of the state.” This, while the State of Texas is persistently decreasing funding of community colleges while increasing regulation and control over curriculum.

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