Join the thousands of Texans who have already signed the Save Texas Schools petition! Get your friends and family to sign on! This petition will be sent to all state officials who are involved in making decisions about our public schools.

We, the undersigned, believe that a strong public school system is the most important investment we can make in our children and our state’s economic future. Yet Texas had already fallen to 44th nationally in per pupil funding even before the legislature cut an additional $5.4 billion from public education in 2011.

We call on all state leaders – both officeholders and candidates – to pledge their support for the following emergency actions in the next legislative session:

• Make outstanding public education a top priority for Texas.
• Restore all school funding cuts made by the 2011 legislature and provide sufficient resources for our growing student population.
• Revise school finance laws to be fair to all students.
• Fix the $5 billion annual structural deficit to avoid further cuts to education.
• Reevaluate and limit high-stakes standardized testing.
• Reject efforts that reduce funding to public education, including school vouchers