Whenever right wingers find themselves short of facts to support an argument (and that happens a lot), their favorite, wornout alternative is simply to bash the American Civil Liberties Union, a group that they like to blame for almost every problem – real and imagined – that has ever befallen this country. Nothing apparently gets […]
The Dallas Morning News, which broke the story the other day about a likely legislative effort to repeal the 221 studentteacher ratio for kindergarten through the fourth grade, also has published a strong editorial explaining why the 26yearold cap is so important and must be preserved. “Here’s something that makes you cringe: Lawmakers in Austin […]
This is no time to retreat from (or whine about) timehonored educational reforms, but watch out for a lot of whining and proposed retreating when the Legislature convenes in January in the face of a huge revenue shortfall. Already being targeted in some legislative discussions is the important 22pupil limit on class sizes for kindergarten […]
No one is trying to rewrite history this time, but there is another idea percolating before the State Board of Education that nevertheless may generate a fair amount of controversy. It is a proposal by Republican board member David Bradley of Beaumont to allocate about $100 million of the $22.1 billion Permanent School Fund to […]
