The article “Fix other things before adding school days” by David DeMatthews, appeared in the San Antonio Express-News on February 25, 2019. The author’s intended audience are parents and lawmakers, and the legislature. The author believes that paying close attention to funding inequities between high- and low-poverty districts, adding more pay to teachers, and having counselors in schools, can cause a few issues for financing public schools, but he also explains that adding more school days in Texas can make more issues for the Texas legislature and the school boards. The argument of this article is that it is better to try to fix the problems that there are on funding for schools, then trying to add more school days for students. I agree with this article because the Texas legislature needs to focus more on fixing public funding for teachers than on trying to give kids more school days. And they also need to focus on student health and on how much they already do in school. The person who wrote the article is David DeMatthews. He is the director of the Texas Principal Leadership Academy and an associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas at Austin. These achievements indicate that he has high credibility. In addition, Professor DeMatthews has also recently authored a book, Community Engaged Leadership for Social Justice: A Critical Approach in Urban Schools with Routledge. He seems to be a smart man with high credentials. Professor DeMatthews does not only give evidence about the public school funding system, he also gives examples.  For instance, he says “the average teacher salary in Texas is $ 53,167, which is more than $ 7.000 less than national average of $60,483.”  

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From 2005-08 — The Texas Tribune publishes an article titled As Trump arrives for rally, El Pasoans say history shows he was wrong about their city.
The article “As Trump arrives for rally, El Pasoans say history shows he was wrong about their city” is mainly about how Trump talks about putting a wall in El Paso.  He says that the wall which was built in 2008 has caused less crime in El Paso, but the article disagrees with what Trump has to say. The article states that El Paso was not a bad city and had less crime before even putting a wall up. An increase in Border Patrol officers really is what reduced crime. But now since building a wall between El Paso and Juarez, there has been more crime and more violence. This article is worth reading because it talks about that what happened in El Paso can also happen to other cities and towns in Texas.