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Red state education. In the Houston area, the major educational initiative is Leave No Child's Behind:

A former high school teacher faces the possibility of up to 20 years in prison after a jury determined Monday she had sex with an underage special-education student.

Jurors found Adrianne Hockett, 26, guilty of one count of sexual assault of a child, agreeing with prosecutors that she had sex with a student, then 15, in the summer and fall of 2003 while she was a teacher at Hastings High School in the Alief school district. Hockett had been charged with three counts.

Hockett acknowledged giving her student special attention but has denied having sex with the teen, who prosecutors say reads at a first-grade level.

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The teen testified during the trial he told his mother he was going to Hockett's southwest Houston apartment for tutoring to help with his reading skills. But he said he and Hockett had sex, drank beer and smoked marijuana.

Reads at first-grade level? Had sex? Drank beer? Smoked marijuana?

What stellar qualifications! America loves a fallen man. Once he publicly renounces the beer and pot, he should become a viable candidate for governor of Texas. No, let's think bigger — make that president of the United States.

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