Posted on 07/10/2011 12:46:56 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
...[Gov Rick] Perry regularly asserts that primary and secondary education are the state's top priority, noting that more money will go to schools in the next budget even amid deep cuts elsewhere. The state, however, is underfunding schools by $4 billion — or 6 percent — based on what was called for by state law to keep pace with costs, including those generated by 80,000 new students starting school each year.
.....The Texas Education Agency attributed the success on the math test to high standards and quality teachers. Others point to the jump early in the decade to an improved state test, as well as investment enacted in 1999 , when Perry was lieutenant governor, that gave schools hundreds of millions of dollars to help students struggling on those tests.
Funding for that program, the Student Success Initiative, has been reduced from $293 million in the current two-year state budget to $36.5 million in 2012-13.
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Sadler, now an education consultant for the Texas Association of School Boards , said whatever Perry has done in the past for education will be overshadowed by the two-year budget he signed last month.
Schools will get less basic state aid and have lost state grant money that paid for all-day pre-kindergarten and other programs aimed at helping children at risk of dropping out.
Legislators fundamentally rewrote the state's compact with schools, in effect since 1949 , that guaranteed schools would get enough money to provide a basic, foundational education for each student. Now, future appropriations will be dependent upon how much money is available rather than how much is needed.
"Whether he wants that to be his legacy or not, just because of the historic nature of the cuts, it is going to be his legacy," Sadler said.
(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
You seem to have picked up a few stalkers. /s
“So how many little girls did you watch get MANDATED
Gardasil from your RINO-Perry’s Executive order?”
“None. They OPTED OUT. Care to spread any other lies?”
So you now claim she forced the Gardasil even on the children
whose parents tried to ‘opt out’. That is quite serious.
No kidding.
They discredit themselves.
It’s all so much numbers bs.
Figures don’t lie but liars can figure.
Perry wants more local control of schools.
After reading that, “who’s compared to whom” rigmarole, who couldn’t say, ENOUGH!?
So far, readers of the thread see that the RINO Perry
supports the DREAM Act for illegal aliens and
the control of children by HIS RINO Executive Orders.
I didn’t mean to imply anything against you. It’s just that I have seen so many Perry vs. Bush articles since Perry began his campaign that I wonder if it’s part of their strategy. Conservatives have long said it would be a mistake for Obama to run against George Bush. I think Perry’s campaign needs to realize it would be a mistake for them, too.
Thanks for writing back.
It’s inevitable.
I guess being in public life they expect it, understand it and most likely ignore a lot of it.
Sort of a cross between, “When did you stop beating your wife” and “Take my wife, please!”
And they are....talking to a teacher in the library the other day...we’ll never vote for Perry....typical union thinking...
Someone who came from Mexico 24 months prior pays less tuition than someone from New Mexico.
He might do something truly conservative, like get the Federal government out of education.
Texas academic rates are also pulled down by 10-20% of students having at least one illegal immigrant parent and at least 5% being illegally here themselves. Add in parents who came here to work sending kids to work as soon as able, pulling down graduation rates. The immigration issue is what is killing the education statistics.
And paying for bilingual education and free goodies (free school supplies, food handouts after school, free meals at school) drive up the total education line item.
Have you seen how old some of those pre-K kids are?
I hear pre-K’s are all needing money for more student parking.
well if all the ilegal school kids and medical patients left the state most of the head count for workers would be reduced by 50%. At Disd they estimate that your number is about 60% of the student body in grammer schools. They would have empty schools in order to have classes of more than 10.
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