ISSUES

  • Increase state funding for public schools to reduce recapture, lower property taxes, and increase educational outcomes for students while providing needed relief to teachers and administrators
  • Raise teacher salaries across the board until they are competitive nationwide, provide more time for planning and less on administrative tasks, and increase mentorship for new teachers
  • Provide a cost-of-living adjustment for retired educators and improve TRS-Care
  • Reduce overreliance on standardized tests, punitive A-F ratings, and other school ratings tactics that do nothing to measure the actual learning going on in the classroom
  • Eliminate loopholes to best practices around class size and similar
  • Expand Medicaid to provide 1.5 million Texans access to care, bring $110B of our tax dollars home to help shore up healthcare infrastructure, lower uncompensated care costs, reduce all of our premiums, and save lives
  • Focus on maternal mortality, including implementing a full year postpartum Medicaid access and increasing cultural competency so that health concerns of women of color are taken seriously
  • Increase parity for mental health with respect to insurance coverage and offer more mental health services in schools, as well as training for educators and education/awareness for parents
  • Protect abortion access, add funding for the indigent, and restore Planned Parenthood to Title X funds
  • Increase access to contraceptives, improve family planning services, and teach sex-ed
  • Promote healthy living and nutrition education
  • Reverse medically uncecessary bans and TRAP laws to make abortion safe, legal, and accessible
  • Implement funding for indigent in need of abortion services so have equal access
  • End funding for alternatives to abortion and put into healthcare and family planning
  • Stop attacks on trans kids and stand up for for equality for LGBTQIA+ community
  • Push back on attacks on reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy
  • Oppose banning books and the teaching of accurate history or critical thinking
  • Increase transit and access to transportation services, including bicycling and bicycle lanes
  • Close gaps in broadband access in underserved communities
  • Reduce food desserts and increase access to healthy food choices
  • Ensure we receive our share of healthcare clinics, practitioners, and services, including COVID-19 education, vaccines, testing
  • Expand apprenticeships, job training programs, and other opportunity for sustainable employment
  • End spending on wasteful partisan priorities such as fake clinics and border walls and prioritize Texans basic needs
  • Create new revenue streams such as through the legalization, regulation, and taxation of cannabis
  • Close corporate tax loopholes and franchise tax exemptions and raise the margins tax
  • Move away from an unfair system based on property taxes and consumption taxes toward a more equitable system
  • Use the Rainy Day Fund to meet acute needs such as learning loss due to COVID-19, loss of healthcare access in underserved areas, and foster care, before they become untenable 
  • Resist attempts to undermine organizing/attempts at banning payroll deduction 
  • Stop attacks on the gains we’ve made especially in urban areas
  • State workers need an across the board pay raise, cost of living adjustment for retirees, return pensions to defined benefit plan after move toward cash balance
  • Expand voting access, end voter purges, and ban partisan intimidation by poll watchers
  • Implement online voter registration for any Texan as well as automatic and same-day registration
  • Broaden voting by mail to any qualified voter, with no excuse needed or age restriction
  • Make Texas college, government, and tribal IDs eligible for use as a Voter ID
  • Work with local officials to purchase more voting machines, hire more poll workers, increase polling locations, and expand voting hours to the maximum allowed by law
  • End use of chokeholds and reform use of force
  • Require a duty to intervene when another officer is potentially using excessive force, and require a duty to render aid to those being detained or arrested or otherwise
  • Eliminate no-knock warrants
  • End qualified immunity
  • Collect better data in terms of interactions with law enforcement and traffic stops
  • Legalize, regulate, and tax cannabis to address mass incarceration and fund key needs
  • Release and expunge records of those with drug simple possession charges
  • Lower penalties for non-violent offenses, resist escalations leading to severe sentencing
  • Oppose mandatory cash bail, similar punitive measures touted as reforms
  • Focus on diversion programs; treatment, education, job skills, counseling while incarcerated, and throughout incarceration and not just at end; re-entry programs
  • Focus on social-emotional learning, restorative justice methods, and trauma-informed training and bias training for teachers and administrators
  • End zero tolerance policies and reduce criminal referrals from the school systems
  • Stop expulsions and suspensions for Pre-K or other young students that inappropriately remove them from the classroom
  • Cease charging 17 year olds as adults
  • Invest in alternative energy and green/clean energy jobs, including re-training programs
  • Oppose environmental hazards in or near minority or low-income neighborhoods
  • Stop attacks on local environmental ordinances, including trees, endangered species, and water
  • Resist efforts to defund TERP or other programs designed to improve environmental equity
  • Support a regulatory scheme that helps residents defend themselves from environmental hazards, and has actual punishments and teeth for polluters and abusers
  • Increase funding for staff, supplies, PPE, and sanitation to address complications to childcare brought on and exacerbated by COVID-19 and prevail on Congress to grant relief
  • Eradicate the funding gap for CPS and Foster Care so that there are adequate resources to take care of Texas children as opposed to sleeping in office buildings or sending to unsafe placements out of state
  • Reverse the disastrous privatization efforts in the child welfare system
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