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Friday, February 8, 2008
Former TEA head endorses Sibley
Jonathan Sibley, running to oust state Rep. Charles “Doc” Anderson from his seat in the Texas Legislature, got the backing of former Texas Education Agency head Mike Moses in Waco Thursday.
Moses, who was appointed by then-Gov. George W. Bush in 1995 to head the TEA, stumped for Sibley, who he called a “common-sense conservative” at a fund-raiser at George’s Too Banquet Hall attended by about 25 Sibley friends, family and other supporters.
He said he has watched Jonathan, 28, grow up over the last 13 years since first meeting his father David Sibley, who represented the Waco area as a state senator from 1991 to 2002.
“I’ve watched him become, I think, a great leader,” Moses said. “I think he is tremendously well qualified. I’m so happy to see people who want to see progress towards finding solutions to problems.”
Moses, who now advocates for public school reforms after leaving the TEA and serving as Superintendent of the Dallas school district, praised Jonathan Sibley’s stances on education issues.
“I think we need people who really want the best for Texas … who want common sense conservative values, who want good schools, who don’t want teachers and principals to be unfairly punished, who want to challenge our educators, challenge our kids,” he said.
Throughout the Republican primary battle for House District 56, Sibley has criticized Anderson’s 2005 for a pilot private school voucher program. Sibley has said that the program would have reduced funding for public schools to pay for the vouchers.
“We don’t need to be taking money away from our neediest students,” Moses said.
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