The Texas Legislature’s ability to showboat while missing the real boat is apparently limitless. Or, to put it another way, when it comes to hypocrisy or hollow rhetoric, the statehouse has set the gold standard. One of the latest (of many) examples is House Bill 2909, which won House approval last month and was heard […]
Much to their chagrin, public school teachers are increasingly finding themselves thrust into the political arena, with the result that many also are finding themselves thrust out of the classroom, stripped of jobs or, at least, longterm job security. For political and budgetary reasons, legislatures in such widely separated states as Wisconsin, Ohio, Tennessee, New […]
Teachers could take a short breath of relief with the demise last night of House Bill 400 shortly after the stroke of midnight in the House chamber. Ostensibly, the bill was the victim of a missed procedural deadline. In reality, it was killed by the phone calls and emails to legislative offices from thousands of […]
Gov. Rick Perry, whose political gameplaying delayed and could have killed the $830 million in “emergency” federal funds for education jobs in Texas, now is trying to claim credit for the money finally getting here. That, at least, was Paul Burka’s take in an item he posted late last night on his Texas Monthly blog, […]
