Senate Education Chairwoman Florence Shapiro got some attention last week by announcing the obvious – Texas needs to scrap its school finance system and rebuild it. Hope may spring eternal, but I would be more encouraged were it not for a couple of things, namely: # A revenue shortfall now forecast as large as $21 […]
Sometimes, there is a very thin line between being political and being disingenuous, and the Republicans who purport to represent the best interests of Texas taxpayers in Washington have crossed it. First, they thumb their noses at thousands of Texas educators and millions of Texas school kids by voting against the $830 million allocated to […]
Most of you, I am sure, have never heard of Randy Rives. He is a rightwing businessman from Odessa who ran for the State Board of Education last spring but was defeated by Bob Craig of Lubbock, the more moderate incumbent, in the Republican primary. He ran. He lost. End of story, right? Not exactly. […]
In catching up on my weekend clips, I noticed that Rick Perry, our accountability dodging governor, has been waxing colorful, although not particularly insightful, about state government’s budgetary problems. “You’d have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to understand that we have a major financial crisis on our hands,” he said, as reported by […]
