Posted on 12/24/2011 11:40:18 AM PST by DeaconBenjamin
And it would be unconstitutional to expect them to contribute anything to their children's education.
Texas raised school funding consistently every year for the past half century, until now.
"But if it can’t go on forever it will stop."--Herb Stein
Texas, meanwhile, is sitting on at least $5 billion in its rainy day fund.
How evil of them. They should have spent it all this year, so there would be nothing left for next year.
They're hoping the courts will declare the cuts and the school funding formula in Texas unconstitutional.
Because, after all, money grows on trees -- or at least in binary code.
Before long they will start charging $3 per trip to and from school to ride da bus, except for those 99% that are on Obamafunds, which will ride for free.
It's a good start
Budget cuts? So that’s why most of the schools in my district are spending tens of millions of dollars to completely replace the old schools and build new stadiums? That’s why the high school here spent a half a million dollars tearing out the grass and putting in astro-turf, only to have to spend another quarter of a million a few month later to replace the astroturf again? That’s why the district spends over a million a year for “International Baccalaureate” and “Montessori” certifications in its failing middle schools?
Darn, those budget cuts are really hurting.
ping
Problem number ten thousand five hundred with public schools. Parents are willing to invest massive amounts of time and money on sports and extracurricular but you rarely see this devotion to math & science or other academics that will actually help their kids in the future.
That one line destroyed the "crisis" promoted by this story.
That one line destroyed the "crisis" promoted by this story.
Start deporting them illegals and stop giving them in-state tuition aid and the cuts wouldn’t matter, as class sizes would drop 25% or more.
Please notice that there are no administrators in this list.
You posted this twice - I think you need to post it about eighteen more times until it sinks in to all the IDIOTS out there!
Gee! Imagine that. Having to pay for sports. What cruelty! /s
One of these days, someone is going to wake up to the fact that the more they spend, the worse things are getting. It is because they are wasting so much money and resources on imprudent things versus core academics; the important things are being left by the wayside.
Gonna be fun to watch when test results show no change in student performance despite spending a lot less money.
It's as though the captain and crew of the Titanic rushed the lifeboats before the passengers could get to them.
"Public service" these days means keeping the taxpayer bent over to be serviced.
How about kicking out all the Illegal Aliens from Texas schools? Heck, there are even some Texas districts along the border that take kids who actually LIVE IN MEXICO
Texas needs to man up...and stop electing Pro-Illegal, Pro-La Raza politicians. Open Borders GOP (starting with the Governor) are killing the state
Texas doesn’t charge students for Bus service.
But here is a more timely article on the situation. I find it interesting that the found 5 Billion to help pay for EDU.
IIRC Houston was going to lay off a bunch of teachers and when the final budget came in they didn’t have too.
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