TECEC says Thanks to BlogCatalog Bloggers

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I had a brief IM discussion this morning with Donald Titcombe, the Communications Coordinator for the Texas Early Childhood Education Coalition (TECEC), during which he informed me that 40 BlogCatalog members have signed up to be TECEC members since we ran a blog post about TECEC’s push to get House Bill (HB) 130 and Senate Bill (SB) 21 passed in the Texas Legislature and set up a BloggersUnite event to get people to blog about the importance of the bills. He was also happy to report that since that time HB 130 has (unofficially) passed the Texas House with 109 Yeas, 32 Nays, and 1 Present, not voting!   House Bill 136 has also passed the House.

If you’d like to learn more about TECEC or the bills they are supporting you can go to their home page; there, you will find a bill tracker, powered by Sprout, that will show you the status off all the bills TECEC is supporting in the Texas Legislature.

We here at BlogCatalog want to express our thanks to all of the bloggers who particpated in the BloggersUnite event and an even bigger thanks to those who went a step further and joined TECEC’s cause by signing up to be members.  Don said to send a thank you from himself and TECEC to all of our members too, and he said to let you know that because of such a great response he has started a new blog-based advocacy effort.