TSTA survey indicates a record 70 percent of teachers on the verge of quitting as educator morale sinks; political attacks, pandemic, years of state neglect to blame A record 70 percent of teacher-members surveyed by the Texas State Teachers Association said they were seriously considering leaving the profession as they ended a difficult school year last spring. The number was the highest ever recorded in the teacher moonlighting and morale survey, which has been tracking Texas teachers’ concerns for more than 40 years, and it was a significant jump from the 53 percent who expressed similar feelings the last time the survey was conducted in 2018.

The following persons were arrested or booked into the Madison County jail. All persons are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Sponsored by the Madison County Chamber of Commerce August 11 th 5 – 7 p.m. Back To School Health & Safety Day First Baptist Church Madisonville All Madison County Pre-K through 12 students and parents are invited.

BY THE EDITORS AT ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION LEAD STORY - TRIGGER WARNING One TikTok user described her Walt Disney World experience on July 30 as “torture” after the It’s a Small World ride got stuck for over an hour, the New York Post reported. “They didn’t realize for like 45 minutes, everyone was on a boat so we sat there for about an hour stuck with the song on repeat!!” @hazeysmom22 wrote.

WARNING: WE JUST GOT A NON-ELECTED COUNTY JUDGE For the next four years and five months, we, the voters of Madison County, will have a non-elected, non-campaigned, non-townhalled, non-vetted Madison County Judge; the highest elected official for Madison County who will have effectively been elected by only five voters: four County Commissioners who voted to put him in office as a temporary fill for five months to complete the remaining term of our recently deceased Judge Tony Leago… and Clark, voting for himself one time in November. With no Democrat or Independent opponent on the ballot, Clark only requires 1 vote, from himself, to be our Madison County Judge for the following 4 years.